Lockport Man Pleads Guilty To 'Parading' Inside U.S. Capitol Jan. 6

LOCKPORT, IL — A Lockport man is one of three Illinois men who have pleaded guilty to charges in connection with their involvement in the Jan. 6 capitol insurrection that occurred last year, federal officials announced on Thursday.

Anthony Carollo agreed to a plea deal on Thursday in which he pleaded guilty to one count of being inside a Capitol building, according to Department of Justice documents. The agreement says that Carollo entered the Capitol building through a broken window adjacent to the Senate wing door around 2:22 p.m. along with his brother and cousin, Jeremiah Carollo and Cody Vollan, 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 on Jan. 18 according to federal prosecutors. Jeremiah Carollo lives in downstate Glen Carbon while 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.

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 a FBI agent, documents show. All three men told the FBI that they admitted traveling to Washington DC and Jeremiah Carollo told the agent that he and his two family members had gone into the Capitol building.

Carollo faces up to six months in prison and up to five years of probation in connection with pleading guilty to the charge included in the plea agreement.