In some scenarios, the legal mandate for a speedy trial may be leading prosecutors to wait to file charges. What is clear is that the rate of prosecutions has declined sharply since the early months of the investigation.
The FBI and Justice Department won't comment specifically on where those cases stand. The reasons these suspects remain free are unclear. “We give them everything but the longitude and latitude coordinates of their house.” “The amount of information the Sedition Hunters give the FBI – it’s a portfolio of information,” said Forrest Rogers, a volunteer investigator who has been researching the Jan. Indeed, more than 100 suspects wanted by the FBI have already been named by groups of online researchers known as "sedition hunters." 6 investigation, far less focus has been placed on the hundreds more who are wanted but have never been charged.Ĭases examined by USA TODAY show just how definitively many of those suspects can be identified. While federal officials have publicized the prosecution of nearly 1,000 people in the Jan.
Yetman insisted in an interview with USA TODAY that he did nothing wrong that day at the Capitol and says he didn't pepper-spray anyone.Ĭases like 278 AFO illuminate a lesser-known underside of the effort to arrest and convict people responsible for the insurrection. Online researchers provided Yetman's identity to the FBI more than a year ago, but he has never been arrested. He continued to serve until he was honorably discharged in March 2022. USA TODAY interviews and a review of online video and social media – based on information supplied to the FBI by an army of online sleuths – all point to one man who admits he was at the Capitol that day: Gregory Yetman.Īt the time of the insurrection, Yetman was a military police sergeant in the New Jersey National Guard.
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