Judge orders suspect in chemical spraying of Capitol officers detained
Source: The Hill
BY JORDAN WILLIAMS - 03/23/21 10:49 AM EDT
A West Virginia judge on Monday ordered a suspect in the chemical spraying of Capitol Police officers during the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol detained pending trial, according to multiple reports.
The suspect, George Pierre Tanios of West Virginia, was arrested last week and is facing nine charges related to the riots, including assaulting Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick and two other agents with a chemical irritant.
Tanios was seen on footage with Julian Elie Khater of Pennsylvania “working together to assault law enforcement officers with an unknown chemical substance by spraying officers directly in the face and eyes,” according to an FBI affidavit.
Neither of the men is charged with killing Sicknick, who is included as one of the five people that died as a result of the attack. Sicknick’s cause of death remains unclear.
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