The Justice Department has accused a Maryland man of carrying a semi-automatic handgun and ammunition during the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol building, among 9 other charges.
Alberts, who has pleaded not guilty on all counts, is also accused of resisting arrest and of knowingly engaging in an “act of physical violence” on Capitol grounds, and entering and causing “disorderly and disruptive conduct” in a restricted building and grounds with a “deadly and dangerous” weapon.
The indictment also accuses Alberts of forcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding, intimidating and interfering with a U.S. officer and employee. Alberts faces a total of 10 counts.
It comes after FBI counterterrorism official Jill Sanborn in March testified at a Senate hearing that she had no knowledge of any guns being recovered from suspects who were arrested during the incident.
When asked by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) about whether firearms were recovered or if any suspect was charged with firearms offenses, Sanborn responded: “To my knowledge, none.” She qualified her remark by saying that she did not want to speak for Capitol Police first.
But in the hearing, Sanborn also said that before the Jan. 6 incident, “We knew they would be armed, we had intelligence that they would be coming to D.C., but we did not have intelligence that they would be breaching the Capitol.”
“I believe that the only shots that were fired were the ones that resulted in the death of the lady,” Sanborn also testified, referring to the officer-involved shooting and death of Trump supporter Ashley Babbit.
