By Eric Tucker and Alanna Durkin Richer
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The FBI made an arrest on Thursday in its practically 5-year-old investigation into who positioned pipe bombs in Washington on Jan. 5, 2021, a regulation enforcement official advised The Associated Press.
The arrest came about Thursday morning, and the suspect is a person, the official stated. He was arrested in Virginia, in accordance with one other particular person conversant in the matter. No different particulars have been instantly obtainable, together with the fees the person may face. The individuals who described the arrest weren’t licensed to publicly talk about a case that has not but been made public and spoke on the situation of anonymity.
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The pipe bombs have been positioned on the night of Jan. 5, 2021, close to the places of work of the Democratic and Republican nationwide committees within the District of Columbia. Nobody was damage earlier than the bombs have been rendered protected, however the FBI has stated each gadgets might have been deadly.
In the years since, investigators have sought the general public’s assist in figuring out a shadowy topic seen on surveillance digicam whilst they struggled to find out solutions to fundamental questions, together with the particular person’s gender and motive and whether or not the act had a transparent connection to the riot on the Capitol a day later when supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the constructing in a bid to halt the certification of the Republican’s 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
Seeking a breakthrough, the FBI final January publicized further data concerning the investigation, together with an estimate that the suspect was about 5-foot-7, in addition to beforehand unreleased video of the suspect putting one of many bombs.
The bureau had for years struggled to pinpoint a suspect regardless of lots of of ideas, a overview of tens of hundreds of video information and a major variety of interviews.
House Republicans criticized safety lapses, questioning how regulation enforcement did not detect the bombs for 17 hours. Dan Bongino, the present FBI deputy director, floated the chance final 12 months earlier than being tapped for his job that the act was an “inside job” and concerned a “massive cover-up.”
In an extended put up on X final month, Bongino wrote that the FBI had introduced in new personnel to look at the case and “dramatically increased investigative resources” together with the general public award for data “to utilize crowd-sourcing leads.”
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