According to court records, a Connecticut man pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with the storming of the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021.
Jeremy Bausch pleaded guilty Thursday in front of District Judge Christopher R. Cooper to a single count of holding parades, demonstrations, or pickets at the Capitol Building, a misdemeanor according to the federal electronic court system.
Cooper scheduled Bausch’s sentencing hearing for January 10, 2023. According to details of a plea agreement released by the Justice Department, he faces up to six months in prison on the charges.
The plea agreement with the government includes a provision allowing Bausch to be interviewed by law enforcement officials prior to his sentencing.
Law enforcement accused Bausch of breaking into the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, along with a crowd of Donald Trump supporters who had gathered to disrupt a vote confirming Joe Biden as president.
Days after the riot, FBI investigators received a tip that Bausch, an Electric Boat submarine engineer with security clearance, was among those who stormed the Capitol, according to court documents.
Bausch refused to speak to investigators when they tried to question him at the Electric Boat, court documents say.
But the company provided investigators with Bausch’s online search history from his work computer — along with documentation showing he was notified that his activities on the device would be monitored, court documents show.
“Bausch’s search history has included searches by topic, including the inauguration, the US Capitol building plan, weapons, scopes, lasers, Trump protests, the FBI Capitol, and job searches in the US West. classified security clearance as part of his job,” a Norwich police detective and member of the FBI task force wrote in the indictment.
Bausch was the latest of more than half a dozen Connecticut residents to plead guilty to the riots.
In April, a Canterbury mother and daughter accused of breaking into the Capitol building together were sentenced to house arrest and probation. The mother, 57-year-old Jean Laven, was also sentenced to 10 days in jail over five weekends.
The trial of Patrick McCaughey III, a Ridgefield resident accused of trapping a police officer in the doorframe at the Capitol entrance, is due to begin next week.