What Happened To The CT Residents Charged In Jan. 6 Capitol Riot?

CONNECTICUT —Seven Connecticut residents were charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Here's what they're accused of doing and the status of their cases.

Jeremy K. Baouche, 24, of New London, was charged with entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; and disorderly conduct in a Capitol Building, according to the Justice Department.

A week after the riot, on Jan. 13, a tipster alerted the FBI National Threat Operations to Baouche's presence in the Capitol. In the days following, two more tipsters supplied the FBI with information.

Through investigation, mobile phone data obtained through search warrants, images and video as well as interviews with witnesses including people who know him, investigators determined that Baouche had entered the Capitol, per the criminal complaint statement of facts.

At the time of the riot, Baouche, a University of Connecticut alumnus, was employed by General Dynamics Electric Boat as an engineer. He has been assigned a federal public defender and is due back in court January 20.

Harwinton man Richard T. Crosby Jr., 25, was charged in June with entering and remaining on the floor of Congress, obstruction of justice/Congress, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in the Capitol, and parading, demonstrating or picketing at the Capitol.

According to the charging documents, on April 21, FBI agents went to Crosby's parents' home in Harwinton to interview him, and them. Crosby told the agents he learned about the pro-Trump demonstration planned for Jan. 6 from social media. His parents told federal agents that their son "believed the 2020 presidential election was stolen."

Crosby and his girlfriend and her mother, who were not named in the criminal complaint, first went to the Ellipse to attend the pro-Trump rally. He stayed for the entire rally while his girlfriend and her mother left and he was among the "masses" who marched down Pennsylvania Avenue towards the Capitol.

Crosby, wearing a black jacket and glasses, famously appeared and prayed alongside "QAnon Shaman" Jacob Chansley in footage recorded by the New Yorker inside the Capitol Building on Jan. 6. He is due back in court on Feb. 10 for a status conference, according to court documents.

Canterbury residents Carla Krzywicki, 19, and her mother, Jean Lavin, 56, were charged with entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a capitol building; and parading, demonstrating or picketing at the Capitol.

The FBI received a tip that Krzywicki and Lavin were inside the U.S. Capitol. The tip included photographs from Krzywicki's Facebook account showing her posing with her mother outside the U.S. Capitol, and a photograph taken inside building.

Investigators tracked both Krzywicki and Lavin to the Capitol through their cell phones, which pinged cell towers in that area on that day. Both admitted that the phone numbers in question were theirs, the FBI said.

Both women are due back in court on Jan. 11 to make a plea agreement, court records show.

Patrick Edward McCaughey III, 24, traveled from his home in Ridgefield to Washington, D.C., and "knowingly and willfully joined a crowd of individuals who forcibly entered the grounds of the United States Capitol and impeded, disrupted, and disturbed the orderly conduct of business by the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate," according to the original complaint.

As alleged in the charging documents, on Jan. 6, a video posted to YouTube captured a large group of rioters attempting to break through the line of uniformed law enforcement officers who were in place to prevent rioters from entering the lower west terrace door of the U.S. Capitol. In the front line of rioters, a man prosecutors identify as McCaughey can be seen using a clear police riot shield to physically push against the left side of the body of an officer, identified as D.C. Metro Police Officer Daniel Hodges. The officer was pinned between the clear police riot shield being held by McCaughey and the lower west terrace door.

In addition to the civil disorder and trespassing claims, McCaughey faces charges of assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officer or employees. Eight others have since been named in connection with the attack on Hodges. McCaughey was released on bond in May, and court documents show he is due back in court for a status conference on Feb. 4.

Maurcio Mendez and Victoria Bergeson, both 41 and from Groton, were among the first charged by the Metropolitan Police Department following the riot.

Bergeson's attorney, Samuel Bogash, told Hearst CT media that his client didn't enter the Capitol Building and happened to be walking on a remote part of the grounds several hours after the mob stormed the Capitol Building.

The charges against Mendez and Bergeson are curfew violation and unlawful entry. They are due back in court for a status hearing on Jan. 28.

In a statement released Wednesday, Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said: "One year ago, terrorists and traitors enabled by the former president and his allies in power breached the walls of the U.S. Capitol in an effort to overturn the election. It was a violent insurrection that I never expected in my lifetime to see on American soil. The work to identify and bring to justice the lawless criminals who instigated, aided, and abetted this failed coup continues."

Patch editors Al Branch and Ellyn Santiago contributed to this story.