A Framingham man was arrested yesterday on a variety of charges yesterday related to the way he allegedly joined in the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6. Read more.
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By adamg - 2/15/24 - 3:34 pm
Photos of Method with Christopher Columbus and fellow failed putschists.
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By adamg - 2/6/24 - 2:06 pm
Starer in attack mode in the Capitol. Photo via FBI.
Dr. Jacquelyn Starer, an Ashland gynecologist and addiction-recovery specialist formerly affiliated with Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain, is negotiating a possible plea deal for the way she was charged with punching a DC cop in the head during the failed Jan. 6 coup attempt in Washington, according to court records. Read more.
By adamg - 1/6/24 - 12:56 pm
Ianni and Sahady enjoying a crisp January day in DC before rushing into the Capitol.
Three years ago today, hundreds of followers of the Insurrectionist in Chief stormed the Capitol and beat cops as they fought for an autogolpe to keep their god-emperor in power. Several were from Massachusetts, including a Nazi-adjacent straight guy, an angry gynecologist, a yoga instructor from Somerville, of all places, a chair-wielding former Boston cop and a man so detested in his hometown, he was quickly turned in by his townspeople. Here's what's happened to them since. Read more.
By adamg - 12/10/23 - 12:23 pm
Three faces of Fisher in DC, one with cap with Pats, Bruins and Celtics logos, via FBI.
A federal judge in Washington has set a Feb. 1 hearing at which Joseph Fisher, a retired Boston Police canine officer, is expected to plead guilty to both felony and misdemeanor charges for bursting into the Capitol on Jan. 6 and using a chair to attack a Capitol Police officer who was pursuing one of Fisher's fellow attempted coup-makers. Read more.
By adamg - 8/21/23 - 2:19 pm
Area right-wing rally organizer Mark Sahady of Malden had been scheduled to go on trial today for his alleged role in the failed Jan. 6 Vanilla Isis coup, but a judge last week put a hold on the proceedings until after Sahady can find what would be his fourth lawyer since his arrest. Read more.
By adamg - 8/3/23 - 12:12 am
Bacon, in Space Force hat, inside the Capitol, via government sentencing memorandum.
A federal judge in Washington, DC last week sentenced Noah Bacon, 30, to one year and one day in federal prison following his conviction for traipsing around the Capitol as part of Donald Trump's failed autogolpe. Read more.
By adamg - 7/27/23 - 6:02 pm
Via FBI: St. Pierre on Capitol steps with a PA system, urging rioters inside.
A Fall River grocery-store owner was arrested today on felony and misdemeanor charges for his alleged role in the failed Jan. 6 coup at the Capitol.
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By adamg - 5/15/23 - 11:41 am
Federal prosecutors, who had earlier painted a picture of local right-winger Mark Sahady and his now convicted Natick pal merely strolling through the Capitol on Jan. 6, now say he was a-hootin' and a-hollerin' that day as other rioters smashed their way into the building to try to enthrone Donald Trump as president by force. Read more.
By adamg - 4/14/23 - 9:37 pm
Athol man trying to drag cop into the mob. Surveillance photo via FBI.
A federal judge in Washington, DC today sentenced Vincent J. Gillespie, 61, of Athol, to 68 months in prison for ramming cops with their own riot shields on Jan. 6, pulling one of the cops towards the surging mob as another protester beat him with a crutch and screaming at the police in his way that they were traitors. Read more.
By adamg - 4/1/23 - 10:15 pm
Fisher strolling through the Capitol before attacking cop, allegedly.
A federal judge on Thursday let Joseph Fisher return to his Plymouth home to await further proceedings on federal felony and misdemeanor charges for his alleged participation in the Jan. 6 attempt to enthrone Donald Trump in a job voters had turned him out of. Read more.
By adamg - 3/30/23 - 2:09 pm
Three faces of Fisher in DC, one with cap with Pats, Bruins and Celtics logos, via FBI.
The FBI today arrested a former Boston cop on charges he didn't just bust into the Capitol with fellow coupsters on Jan. 6, he rammed a chair into a police officer running after a pepper-spraying member of Y'all Queda, then began beating the cop, only the cop got the better of him and knocked him to the ground. Read more.
By adamg - 3/21/23 - 12:40 pm
Sahady in the Capitol (lower right) with Ianni.
Local right-wing organizer Mark Sahady is asking a federal judge in Washington to move his failed-coup trial from there to Massachusetts, arguing that his face has been so plastered over DC media in a community still traumatized by all the rioting that he could not possibly get a fair trial there, even aside from the fact its residents are mostly Democrats. Read more.
By adamg - 3/21/23 - 12:02 pm
Suzanne Ianni of Natick is appealing the 15-day sentence meted out by a federal judge in Washington, DC in December after she pleaded guilty to meandering around the Capitol on Jan. 6. Read more.
By adamg - 3/20/23 - 3:43 pm
The Boston Police Department has released the detailed findings of a deputy superintendent that led to the recent firings of Sgt. Shana Cottone and officers Joseph Abasciano and Michael Geary, in response to a Universal Hub public-records request. Read more.
By adamg - 3/3/23 - 9:55 pm
Two sides of Bacon: Angry Trump putschist and thoughtful yoga instructor.
A jury in US District Court in Washington, DC today convicted Noah Bacon, 29, of Somerville, of traipsing around inside the Capitol with his fellow insurrectionist Trump supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, the US Attorney's office in Washington reports. Read more.
By adamg - 12/23/22 - 9:19 pm
Gillespie wearing a Berkshire Nautilus hoodie outside Capitol. Photo via FBI.
A jury in Washington, DC today convicted Vincent Gillespie of Athol of using a police shield to attack cops defending the Capitol and of trying to pull one cop into the mob, the US Attorney's office in Washington reports. Read more.
By adamg - 12/21/22 - 2:58 pm
A federal magistrate judge yesterday released Dr. Jacquelyn Starer of Ashland on personal recognizance following her arrest yesterday on charges she not only strolled into the Capitol on Jan. 6 but punched a cop in the head, but set several conditions, including a couple Starer would be familiar with, since, in addition to gynecology, she also specializes in addiction treatment, specifically to undergo random drug tests. Read more.
By adamg - 12/20/22 - 1:08 pm
Starer punching a DC cop in the Capitol, photo via FBI.
Dr. Jacquelyn Starer, an Ashland gynecologist and addiction-recovery specialist affiliated with Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain, was arrested today on charges she didn't just enter the Capitol during the Jan. 6 attempted putsch, she punched a Washington cop in the left side of her head. Read more.
By adamg - 12/2/22 - 8:11 pm
Ianni, thoughtfully outlined in red by prosecutors, in photo with her super happy and fun pals on a bus on the way to their failed coup. Next to her is Mark Sahady, who also faces charges.
Suzanne Ianni, the one-time Natick Town Meeting member who rode a bus down to DC and then partook in a hootin' and hollerin' coup de blah on Jan 6, was sentenced to two weeks and a day for her meandering and screaming where she shouldn't have. Read more.
By adamg - 9/14/22 - 10:09 pm
Ianni in Capitol, next to fellow failed putschist Mark Sahady, still facing charges.
The Natick woman who organized bus rides on 1/6 for would-be Massachusetts coup'ers pleaded guilty for her role in the the failed putsch: Screaming while milling about inside the Capitol after others broke through police lines and into the building. Read more.
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