The men admitted to throwing smoke bombs at a line of police trying to keep the mob from the stage set up for Biden’s inauguration.ĭeCarlo admitted to writing “Murder The Media” in permanent marker on a door in the Capitol building, prosecutors said. 6 and then marched together to the Capitol. Ochs and DeCarlo attended the “Stop the Steal” rally near the White House in support of then-President Donald Trump on the morning of Jan.
A lawyer for DeCarlo did not immediately reply to an email seeking comment. They are to be sentenced in December.Įdward MacMahon, a lawyer for Ochs, noted after the hearing that his client did not injure anyone at the Capitol and said he hopes Ochs is sentenced consistent with others who did not participate in any violence. In exchange for pleading guilty, prosecutors agreed to dismiss several other charges against them. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)įederal guidelines for Ochs, 36, and DeCarlo, 32, call for sentences between about 3 1/2 years and four years behind bars, although the judge can decide to go above or below that. 9, 2022, to obstructing the certification of President Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory. Nicholas Ochs, the founder of the group’s Hawaii chapter, and Nicholas DeCarlo, of Fort Worth, Texas pleaded guilty on Friday, Sept. 6, 2021, and posed for a picture in front of a door one of them inked with the words “Murder the Media” have admitted to a felony charge in the riot. The founder of the Hawaii Proud Boys chapter and another man who stormed the Capitol on Jan. FILE - Insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump breach the Capitol in Washington, Jan. They shared a social media channel called “Murder the Media” and initially claimed to be working as journalists on Jan. Nicholas Ochs, founder of the far-right extremist group’s Hawaii chapter and a onetime Republican state House candidate, and Nicholas DeCarlo, of Fort Worth, Texas, admitted to obstructing the congressional certification of President Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory. 6, 2021, and posed for a picture in front of a door on which one of them had written “Murder the Media” each pleaded guilty Friday in federal court to a felony charge in connection with the riot. The founder of the Hawaii Proud Boys chapter and a Texas man who stormed the Capitol on Jan.
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