Framingham Man Charged In Jan. 6 Capitol Breach

FRAMINGHAM, MA — A Framingham man is the latest from Massachusetts charged for their role in the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, the Department of Justice announced.

Thomas Method, 57, of Framingham, is charged in a criminal complaint filed in the District of Columbia with a felony offense of obstruction of an official proceeding. Method is also charged with several misdemeanor offenses, including knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds.

He was arrested today in Framingham.

According to court documents, Method traveled from his home in Massachusetts to Washington, D.C., and participated in the U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021. Video footage taken from that day depicts a man, allegedly later identified as Method, entering the U.S. Capitol building amongst a riotous crowd.

Law enforcement identified a video manifesto recorded on Jan. 5, 2021, where Method allegedly stated: “Hopefully the strength in numbers and this movement will get more Senators on board, and we can overthrow this . . . . I don’t care what happens as long as Trump maintains his presidency. I have a feeling it’s going to be mayhem, chaos, and pandemonium.”

An arrest warrant for Method states that officials connected him to the scene through cell phone records, which tagged him inside the Capitol building in a 30-minute period between 2:20 and 2:50 p.m.

In interviews with a law enforcement agent, Method admitted to being at the breach on multiple occasions, first on April 4, 2022 and again on May 25, 2022.

"I was there," Method said in the first conversation, according to the warrant.

Method told the interviewer in the second phone call that he participated in both the march and breach of the Capitol and made it so far as the Capitol rotunda before he left after 10 minutes.

Method is the 14th person charged in connection to the breach of the capitol from Massachusetts, and the first from Framingham.