A Capitol rioter who told a friend that he was not too worried about getting arrested for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 because he was wearing a mask the entire time he was in the building has been arrested after another insurrectionist identified him to authorities.
The FBI arrested Landon Mitchell on Wednesday, after Luke Wessley Bender, a former co-worker identified Mitchell as the person he had attended the rally with, and as the person who appeared in multiple photos he posted to social media of the rally, according to court documents.
He appeared in a New Yorker video on the floor of the U.S. Senate, going through a senator’s desk and took to the dais, where he posed next to the so-called QAnon Shaman, according to HuffPost.
“Ha! Made it on the new yorker. Ain’t that something? Just the back of my head tho lol,” he wrote in one Facebook message.
Mitchell also told his friends that he had “breached the Capitol” and was “one of the very first in,” the complaint said.
When his friend pointed out that he could be arrested for breaching the Capitol, Mitchell responded, “I’m not too worried. I was masked up the whole time.”
Mitchell faces multiple charges for his role in the riot including, obstruction of justice, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building and entering and remaining on the Floor of either House of Congress.
