Conspiracy Indictment of Proud Boys Leader Alleges Enrique Tarrio Met with Head of Oath Keepers, ‘Other Individuals’ the Night Before Jan. 6 – By Marisa Sarnoff (Law and Crime) / March 8, 2022
The 38-year-old leader of the so-called “Western Chauvinist” Proud Boys group has been arrested and charged with conspiring to organize the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Henry “Enrique” Tarrio was arrested in Miami on Tuesday, according to a press release from the Department of Justice.
It’s the second arrest of a high-profile leader of an extremist group in the federal government’s prosecution of Donald Trump supporters who violently overran police at the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to block Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 presidential election.
Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers extremist anti-government militia, was arrested in January in a seditious conspiracy case, the most serious charge yet in the Jan. 6 cases.
