Jan. 6 Arrests Continue Brisk Pace in 2024, Nearing 1,400 Mark

Published on April 8, 2024

The number of people arrested for alleged Jan. 6 crimes at the U.S. Capitol is nearing 1,400 as the rate of arrests showed a sharp increase in the first quarter compared to 2023 and 2022, a report shows. The U.S. Department of Justice reported that as of the close of business on April 5, 1,387 people have been arrested since the breach and violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. In the first three months of the year, the 122 arrests logged in 2024 vastly outpaced the 70 arrests in the same period of 2023 and the 50 arrests in the first quarter of 2022, DOJ records show. The FBI arrested 367 people on Jan. 6 charges since April 6, 2023, and 612 people since the same date in 2022....

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