Virginia man pleads not responsible to prices in DC pipe bomb case | EUROtoday

A Virginia man has pleaded not responsible to prices accusing him of planting two pipe bombs exterior the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican nationwide events on the eve of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

Brian J. Cole Jr., of Woodbridge, Virginia, entered the plea at a short listening to on Friday.

He is dealing with two counts of transporting and making an attempt to make use of explosives.

Justice Department prosecutors have mentioned that Cole confessed to inserting pipe bombs exterior the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee headquarters solely hours earlier than a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol. Cole mentioned he hoped the explosives would detonate and “hoped there would be news about it,” prosecutors wrote in court documents.

After his arrest last month, Cole told investigators that he believed someone needed to “speak up” for individuals who believed the 2020 election, which Democrat Joe Biden received, was stolen and that he wished to focus on the nation’s political events as a result of they had been “in charge,” in response to prosecutors.

If convicted of each prices in opposition to him, Cole faces as much as 10 years of imprisonment on one cost and as much as 20 years of imprisonment on a second cost that additionally carries a five-year necessary minimal jail sentence.