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Arrests Mount in US Capitol Riot With Nearly 300 Suspects Identified

Masood Farivar

   U.S. prosecutors aggressively pursuing the perpetrators of the January
   6 attack on the U.S. Capitol have identified nearly 300 individuals
   suspected of involvement in the violent rampage that left five people
   dead, officials announced Friday.

   The number of suspects under investigation -- 275 as of Friday morning
   -- was expected to top 300 by the end of the day and exponentially grow
   in the coming days, said Michael Sherwin, acting U.S. attorney for the
   District of Columbia.

   Sherwin's office is leading a wide-ranging investigation that includes
   hundreds of prosecutors and FBI agents trying to identify and charge
   supporters of President Donald Trump who stormed the Capitol last week.
   Complicating their work, all but a handful of the rioters were allowed
   to walk away from the Capitol on the day of the riots and are believed
   to have traveled back to their home states.

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