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Former Proud Boys chairman Henry "Enrique" Tarrio has been indicted in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.
Tarrio, 38, of Miami, was not at the Capitol that day, but has been charged with conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding in relation to the attack, which interrupted the certification of the Electoral College vote for President Joe Biden.
The indictment was first reported by The Washington Post.
Tarrio was arrested in Miami and will appear before a federal judge there on Tuesday, officials said. Tarrio's is the latest name added to an earlier indictment of Proud Boys charged in the insurrection.
His co-defendants include Ethan Nordean, 31, of Auburn, Washington; Joseph Biggs, 38, of Ormond Beach, Florida; Zachary Rehl, 36, of Philadelphia; Charles Donohoe, 34, of Kernersville, North Carolina; and Dominic Pezzola, 44, of Rochester, New York.
Tarrio also faces two counts each of resisting or impeding law enforcement and destruction of government property.
The former chairman of the far-right, White Nationalist group had been barred from attending the Jan. 6 rally for then-President Donald Trump as a condition of bail on a pre-existing criminal case.
Days before the rally and riot, Tarrio had been charged with burning a Black Lives Matter banner belonging to a historically Black church in DC.
He claimed credit for the act soon afterward, saying he was "damn proud"of burning the banner.
When reached by phone on Jan. 6, as men and women stormed the Capitol, Tarrio told Insider he was at a hotel in Maryland.
"Although Tarrio is not accused of physically taking part in the breach of the Capitol, the indictment alleges that he led the advance planning and reminded in contact with other members of the Proud Boys during their breach of the Capitol," according to the statement released by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, DC on Tuesday.
Tarrio was taken into custody Tuesday, according to the DOJ, and efforts to reach him by phone were unsuccessful. A message sent to his attorney, J. Daniel Hull, was not immediately returned.
The Department of Justice's Counterterrorism Section and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami cooperated in the investigation, the statement said.
More than 775 people have been arrested in the Jan. 6 riot, including more than 245 people charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement that day.
