A leading member of the Ohio-based Salt and Light Brigade was arrested on Oct. 5 and charged with seven federal Jan. 6-related crimes, weeks after an Oath Keepers defense attorney identified the group as unindicted “suspicious actors” who incited entry into the U.S. Capitol through the Columbus Doors.
Pastor William Dunfee, 57, of Frazeysburg, Ohio, was arrested on a criminal complaint (pdf) filed in Washington. He was scheduled to make an initial appearance in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
Dunfee is charged with civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a restricted building or grounds, engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and an act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings….