A Florida man, wanted for allegedly breaking into the US Capitol, was arrested when he returned brainless to Washington, DC, for presidential inauguration on Wednesday, officials said.
Samuel Camargo, 26 – who was allegedly captured in a video trying to break into the building during the January 6 riot – returned to his home in Broward County after the deadly siege, according to the Justice Department.
But despite allegedly knowing that he was being hunted by the feds, he is accused of fleeing back to Washington less than two weeks later, prosecutors said.
“[He] decided that he should try to appear for the inauguration instead of becoming authorities ”, affirms the process.
An FBI agent contacted Camargo for the first time the day after the Capitol violation and he allegedly admitted to attending the riot – before the conversation got tense, prosecutors wrote in the court case.
“He then stopped cooperating and questioned the agent’s loyalty to the constitution before saying he had no more information to provide,” the suit said. “After this interview, the defendant posted on social media, ‘I just spoke to an FBI agent, I think I was acquitted’.”
When agents tried to arrest him at his home on Tuesday, he had already fled to Washington DC, prosecutors said.
But the authorities arrested Camargo in DC the next day, and he was accused of civil disorder, intentionally entering a restricted building or land and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, according to the criminal complaint.
At a hearing on Thursday, a judge ordered him to remain behind bars, calling him a possible risk of escape.
“Frankly, this country is very big and there are many different places where a defendant can hide,” said Judge Zia Faruqui at the hearing.
The events leading up to his arrest in DC were not immediately clear. Camargo’s lawyer could not be reached for comment Thursday, the vehicle said. He had not yet filed an appeal.