All posts tagged "Pipe Bomb Suspect"

Brian Cole Jr., who is accused of planting multiple pipe bombs around Washington, D.C., leading up to the January 6, 2021, insurrection, could potentially be freed from incarceration due to the DOJ's error, according to a legal expert.

Lawfare's Roger Parloff, who once reported that Judge Cannon had created a "secret docket" in the process of overseeing a Trump criminal documents case, flagged a motion by Cole in which his attorneys argue that the DOJ failed to properly indict Cole. Recent reports also discuss Cole's confession.

"Accused J6 pipebomber Brian Cole is claiming that he is entitled to release due to govt’s failure to obtain within the allotted time period either a proper grand jury indictment or a judge’s probable cause finding after a 'preliminary hearing.' Odd situation," according to Parloff, who noted that, "Under Federal Rules, absent defense consent or 'extraordinary circumstances,' you can’t detain someone > 14 days without a finding of probable cause, either by indictment or public preliminary hearing. Prosecutors prefer indictments because they’re secret."...

Revelations surrounding the Washington, D.C. pipe bomb suspect have become humiliating for the Trump administration, a security analyst said Friday.

Bradley Moss, a national security analyst, told CNN that the White House now has to manage the fallout after 30-year-old suspect Brian Cole Jr. told law enforcement that he believed that the 2020 election was “stolen." The claim was one that President Donald Trump had made and led to the Capitol mob attack on Jan. 6, just a few hours after the pipe bombs were placed outside the Republican and Democratic party headquarters.

"We're learning some rather awkward and embarrassing things for the White House and for, honestly, some of the senior members of the Justice Department and the FBI, because this defeated all of the theories, all the conspiracies for the last four years about who this particular pipe bomber could have been," Moss said. ...

Federal authorities on Thursday released more information about a man suspected of planting pipe bombs outside Republican and Democratic party headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 2021.

An affidavit revealed more information about the investigation and arrest. The FBI has not released an image of the suspect yet.

The bombs were placed outside the Republican and Democratic national party headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2021, just hours before the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol....

Federal authorities on Thursday named the Virginia man arrested on allegations of planting pipe bombs outside Republican and Democratic party headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 2021.

Brian Cole Jr., of Woodbridge, was identified as the suspect, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi. He was taken into custody in Woodbridge early Thursday.

The bombs were placed outside the Republican and Democratic national party headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2021, just hours before the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. ...