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Instagram Videos Lead To 2 More Tennesseans’ Arrests In Connection With Capitol Riot

Caroline Eggers

June 4, 2021

capitol demonstration

Five months after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, FBI investigations continue to prompt new arrests. Two more Tennesseans have been arrested and charged this week, bringing the total number of state residents accused to 14.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Capitol Invasion, FBI

FBI Report: Nashville Bomber Driven By Conspiracies, Not Political Ideology

Tony Gonzalez

March 15, 2021

New information from the FBI finds that the man who blew himself up in Nashville on Christmas morning struggled with paranoia and believed in conspiracy theories. But the FBI says he was not motivated by social or political ideology and that he tried to minimize harm when taking his own life.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: Anthony Warner, FBI, Nashville Christmas blast

FBI Arrests Continue In Tennessee For January Storming Of The U.S. Capitol

Samantha Max

March 8, 2021

Federal law enforcement officials have charged nine people in Tennessee in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: Capitol Invasion, Eric Munchel, FBI, U.S. Capitol

FBI Arrests 4 More Tennesseans In Storming Of U.S. Capitol; Protest At Tennessee Capitol Fails To Materialize

Samantha Max, Tony GonzalezandWPLN Staff

January 17, 2021

Bledsoe Griffith Capitol

Federal agents have charged four more Tennesseans linked to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Politics Tagged With: Capitol Invasion, Eric Munchel, FBI, U.S. Capitol

How Federal Agents Tracked Down Tennessee’s ‘Zip Tie Guy’

Blake Farmer

January 11, 2021

A gallery of online images of a man believed to be Eric Munchel.

Federal prosecutors have released an affidavit outlining how they identified 30-year-old Eric Munchel of Nashville as a participant in the mob storming of the U.S. Capitol last week. He was arrested Sunday by federal agents and charged with unlawfully entering the building and disrupting Congress.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Capitol Invasion, Eric Munchel, FBI

FBI Searches Offices And Homes Of Former Tennessee House Speaker, 3 Other Republicans

Sergio Martínez-Beltrán

January 8, 2021

FBI agents leave the office of state Rep. Kent Calfee after executing a search warrant.

FBI agents searched the legislative offices or homes of four Republican lawmakers, including former House Speaker Glen Casada, as well as three aides Friday morning.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: FBI, Glen Casada, Kent Calfee, Robin Smith, Tennessee Legislature, Todd Warner

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