Brett Rena Rotella, a shorts-wearing Trump supporter known to online sleuths as #SleevelessRedTattoos, has been charged by federal authorities.
PrintWASHINGTON — More than two-and-a-half years after the Jan. 6 attack, the FBI has arrested the first man to enter the tunnel on the lower west terrace, the site of some of the most brutal incidents during the U.S. Capitol siege.
Brett Rena Rotella, a resident of North Carolina, was arrested on Tuesday and will make his first court appearance in North Carolina on Wednesday. Rotella, who was identified by online"" in early 2021, was known by the nickname #SleevelessRedTattoos, and was notable because he was wearing shorts even though the temperature was in the 40s that day.
The FBI has arrested about 1,100 people in connection with the Capitol attack, and online sleuths have . The statute of limitations on most of the crimes committed at the Capitol expires five years after the incident in early 2026.
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