Ohio town reckons with 2 military veterans charged in Capitol riot

It is here, federal authorities allege, that Army veteran Jessica Watkins tended bar and recruited members for a local militia group she has said in social media posts she founded in 2019. She affiliated it with the Oath Keepers, an extremist, militaristic group believed to have thousands of members nationally, authorities say.

In a criminal complaint filed Jan. 19 and a federal indictment Wednesday, Watkins and a member of her militia, Marine veteran Donovan Ray Crowl, are charged, along with a Virginia man, with helping to plan and coordinate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.