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FBI manhunt ends Jan. 6 suspect Gregory

 

Yetman surrenders in New Jersey

 

Gregory Yetman, who prompted a two-day search across New Jersey’s forests and was wanted for his involvement in the Jan. 6 uprising, turned himself in to police on Friday morning and is currently being held, according to the FBI.

According to FBI spokeswoman Amy Thoreson, “Yetman turned himself into Monroe Township Police this morning, without incident.” Now, Yetman is under FBI custody, according to Thoreson.

Since Wednesday morning at around nine a.m., there has been a manhunt for Yetman. When local police and agents tried to serve him with an arrest warrant, he bolted into the woods next to his house, according to the FBI.

He was the subject of a “Wanted” poster released by the FBI on Thursday, which listed multiple federal accusations against him, including assault on officers, hindering law enforcement, and physical violence on Capitol grounds. Also, the FBI established a $10,000 reward for information that results in Yetman’s detention.

In March, a USA TODAY investigation on Yetman turned up information showing that hundreds of people who were recognized from riot images and videos had not been charged or taken into custody. Numerous individuals had been recognized by unpaid investigators on the internet and reported to the FBI. USA TODAY checked with and contacted a few of those individuals, including Yetman.

The week in extremism: a two-day manhunt for Jan. 6 suspect Gregory Yetman, charges, and an investigation

Videos from January 6 show a man known as suspect #278 AFO taking up a big pepper spray canister from the ground and sprinkling demonstrators and Capitol police with it. The acronym AFO denotes “Assault on a Federal Officer.”

The FBI had put pictures of that individual on their wanted list for the uprising. The images were identified as belonging to Yetman by internet detectives, and a USA TODAY study discovered that all the evidence suggested that Yetman and #278 AFO were the same individual.

In January 2021, Yetman said USA TODAY earlier this year, he was interviewed by the FBI. He claimed at the time that he had not heard from the bureau ever since. He declared, “Everything’s good; everything’s been resolved.”