Background: FBI Search For Gregory Yetman, Suspect Wanted In Connection With The January 6th Attack On The US Capitol Enters Day 2 in Helmetta, New Jersey, United States on November 9, 2023. FBI swat teams and the Joint Terrorism Task Force searched the property owned by Gregory Yetman, Thursday morning. Gregory Yetman is wanted in connection with the January 6th 2021 attack on the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kyle Mazza/NurPhoto via AP)/ Inset: Gregory C. Yetman photo provided by FBI.
Gregory Yetman, a former military police sergeant facing an array of criminal charges related to his conduct at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — including assaulting police — is in FBI custody after a dayslong manhunt for the New Jersey native.
The FBI made the announcement in a brief statement posted online. A spokesperson for the FBI told Law&Crime he would be detained over the weekend in New Jersey due to observation of Veteran’s Day, a federal holiday, and that he has refused any medical treatment. The FBI also said Yetman was unarmed when he turned himself in early Friday.
A warrant for Yetman’s arrest on numerous charges was first issued Monday. He was charged with assaulting, resisting and impeding officers, obstruction of law enforcement during a civil proceeding, entering and remaining in a restricted area, engaging in physical violence in a restricted area and acts of violence on Capitol grounds.
FBI provided photos of Gregory Yetman, accused of assaulting police on Jan. 6, 2021. Yetman turned himself into authorities in New Jersey on Nov. 10, 2023, a few days after a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Yetman, a resident of Helmetta, New Jersey, is expected to make his first court appearance in Newark on Nov. 13 and then, according to the FBI, the matter is expected to be transferred to the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
When police descended on his home on Nov. 6 to make the arrest, Yetman reportedly fled into the woods behind his property.
WNBC in New York reported that agents removed boxes from his home afterward.
SWAT teams did not begin an official search for Yetman until early Wednesday morning.
Using helicopters to scan neighborhoods and wooded areas in Middlesex County, the FBI set up a command post at a community center to aid the search, while agents in heavy tactical gear surveyed the region. There were also reports that police used K-9 units to conduct the manhunt and deployed flash-bang grenades at at least one point.
Authorities converge on the home owned by Gregory Yetman. FBI Search For Gregory Yetman, Suspect Wanted In Connection With The January 6th Attack On The US Capitol Enters Day 2 in Helmetta. FBI swat teams and the Joint Terrorism Task Force searched the property owned by Gregory Yetman, Thursday morning. Gregory Yetman is wanted in connection with the January 6th 2021 attack on the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kyle Mazza / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)
Yetman served in the New Jersey National Guard for 12 years and was still on active status when he allegedly launched his assault on the Capitol. He was honorably discharged in March 2022.
Details of the charges against Yetman were not initially made available by the FBI. It wasn’t until the agency released his wanted poster and announced a $10,000 reward for his arrest that the charges against him were disclosed. The group of internet sleuths known as Sedition Hunters, who study the Capitol attack, however, have long had Yetman on their list: They alerted the FBI to his presence at the Capitol more than a year ago, USA Today reported in March. The group said it used facial recognition software to match photos of Yetman from Facebook to images of him snapped on Jan. 6 in Washington, D.C.
Incidentally, the former military policeman told the outlet in that same article that while he was at the Capitol, he denied deploying any pepper spray on any officers. He also said he had been interviewed already by the FBI in January 2021.
“Everything’s been resolved, everything’s good,” Yetman said in the March 2023 report.
FBI agents sweep the property owned by Gregory Yetman. FBI Search For Gregory Yetman, Suspect Wanted In Connection With The January 6th Attack On The US Capitol Enters Day 2 in Helmetta. FBI swat teams and the Joint Terrorism Task Force searched the property owned by Gregory Yetman, Thursday morning. Gregory Yetman is wanted in connection with the January 6th 2021 attack on the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kyle Mazza / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)
USA Today said in the course of their interviews this spring, when they sent Yetman nearly 300 images allegedly depicting him at the Capitol, he did not respond.
It is unclear whether Yetman has retained an attorney at this time,
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