The FBI is currently offering a $500,000 reward for information leading to the identification of the individual who placed two pipe bombs near the Capitol on January 5, 2021, hours before the violence.
Investigators have been unable to identify the individual who detonated explosives outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters while Kamala Harris was inside for the past two years.
Components that can be purchased online, such as kitchen timers, end caps, and wires, were used to assemble the pipe bomb, the FBI said Thursday as it increased the reward from $100,000 to $150,000.
Investigators have combed through film and media from the nearby region, but no suspect has been identified.
They are one of 350 assailants being sought by the Department of Justice in connection with the January 6 incident.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has stated that investigations will continue throughout the remainder of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
The FBI is now offering a $500,000 reward for information leading to the identification of the individual who placed two pipe bombs near the Capitol on January 5, hours before the 2021 violence.
Investigators have been unable to identify the individual who detonated explosives outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters while Kamala Harris was inside for the past two years.
‘By increasing the reward for information about the pipe bomb suspect from $100,000 to up to $500,000, the FBI and our partners hope to encourage the American public to revisit our Seeking Information website, which includes images and video of the suspect, the suspect’s backpack, the suspect’s shoes, the explosive devices, and a map of the route the suspect walked the night the pipe bombs were placed,’ the FBI said.
On January 5, the pipe bomb suspect dropped the devices while wearing a face mask, glasses, a grey hooded sweatshirt, gloves, and black and light grey Nike Air Max Speed Turf shoes with a yellow emblem.
Footage shows the masked individual pacing with a rucksack down South Capitol Street. At one point, the guy places the backpack on the ground as a man in shorts walking a dog passes him.
A second video depicts the pipe bomb suspect sitting on a bench near the DNC, in the location where he later planted the pipe bomb.
A third video depicts the same individual passing through the Capitol Hill Club, which is adjacent to the RNC headquarters on 1st Street SE, while carrying a rucksack.
At the time, Vice President Harris was inside the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee.
Components such as kitchen timers, end caps, and wires that can be purchased online were utilized to construct the pipe bomb, the FBI said Thursday.
Vice President Harris was inside the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee when the suspect dropped the bombs.
The Justice Department reports that 484 of the 950 indicted have pled guilty to crimes such as impeding Congress, assaulting police, or illegally entering the building.
351 of these individuals have been sentenced, with over 200 receiving prison terms of up to 10 years.
In the most prominent case coming from January 6 to date, two leaders of the far-right Oath Keepers militia were convicted of seditious conspiracy in November.
They have not yet been sentenced, but they face up to 20 years in prison.
The Justice Department announced that it is asking the public’s assistance in identifying and locating 350 suspects in the attack, indicating that the cases will continue well past the third anniversary of January 6.
The figures do not include the Justice Department’s investigation of Trump and others, possibly including his top advisors, who are suspected of instigating or fomenting the violence.
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