3 IL Men Plead Guilty To 'Parading' Inside U.S. Capitol On Jan. 6

ILLINOIS — Three Illinois men have pleaded guilty to charges in connection with their involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection, federal officials announced Thursday.

Anthony Carollo, along with his brother Jeremiah and cousin Cody Vollan, agreed Thursday to plead guilty to one count of "parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building," according to Department of Justice documents.

The plea agreement says that the three men entered the Capitol building through a broken window adjacent to the Senate wing door around 2:22 p.m. and walked throughout the Capitol for about 15 minutes, the criminal complaint says.

The three men walked in the vicinity of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office suite and around the Capitol crypt and Rotunda before leaving the building around 2:38 p.m., documents said.

The three men were arrested Jan. 18, according to federal prosecutors. Anthony Carollo lives in Lockport, Jeremiah Carollo lives in downstate Glen Carbon, and Vollan lives in Flossmoor, according to documents. All three men are scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 13.

Charging documents said that federal officials became aware of the three men’s involvement with the Capitol breach due to geolocation data that was connected to the men’s Google accounts and placed them inside a restricted area of the Capitol building.

The men were not charged with causing damage inside the Capitol, but prosecutors said they “paraded, demonstrated and picketed” inside the building, which is the charge to which the three men pleaded guilty as part of the agreement.

The three men were then matched up using video surveillance footage taken from the Capitol and their driver’s licenses. A family member living in Lockport identified the three men for an FBI agent, documents show. All three men told the FBI that they admitted traveling to Washington, D.C., and Jeremiah Carollo told the agent that he and his two family members had gone into the Capitol building, according to the charging documents.

All three men face up to six months in prison and up to five years of probation in connection with pleading guilty to the charge included in the agreement.