Proud Boys Conspired on Encrypted Channels to Breach US Capitol, Prosecutors Allege

Proud Boys members Joseph Biggs, left, and Ethan Nordean, right, with megaphone, walk toward the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo

Leaders in the Proud Boys group conspired to breach the Capitol on Jan. 6 to interrupt and obstruct Congress’s certification of electoral votes, prosecutors allege, according to newly unsealed court documents.

Ethan Nordean, 30, is president of a Proud Boys Chapter in Washington state; Joseph Biggs, 37, of Florida, is a self-described Proud Boys organizer; Zachary Rehl, 35, is president of the Philadelphia chapter; and Charles Donohoe, 33, of Kernersville, North Carolina, heads the group’s chapter there.