26-year-old man arrested for alleged participation in riot on Capitol Hill

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Officers arrested Edward Jacob Lang of Tusten, New York, on Saturday afternoon, the source said.

The FBI office in New York announced the arrest in a tweet.

“Decisions and consequences. Edward Lang is in custody for those he made in the assault on our Capitol,” FBI New York Deputy Director William F. Sweeney Jr. said in the statement.

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“FBI agents and special employees have taken an oath to support and defend the Constitution of our nation. We will continue to hunt down and hold accountable those who attempt to violently subvert it,” Sweeney added, without providing any further details regarding the arrest.

It is not known if Lang obtained legal representation and attempts to contact his family have failed.

Lang is scheduled to appear in White Plains federal court on Tuesday for his initial appearance, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York City said.

Federal officials told reporters on Friday that investigators had opened 275 criminal cases and charged about 98 people in connection with the January 6 riot by supporters of President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill.
Investigators are looking for thousands of leads in a bid to prosecute those involved in last week’s riot and try to prevent the feared follow-up attacks in Washington, DC and across the country.

CNN’s Susannah Cullinane and Ganesh Setty contributed to this report.



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