Family of five charged in Capitol riots case

Federal authorities in the US on Tuesday arrested five members of a family on charges related to storming the country’s Capitol Hill building on 6 January.

Joshua Munn, 24, was arrested in western Wisconsin’s Melrose village, about 275 kilometres northwest of Milwaukee but was released after an initial federal court appearance in Madison, Wisconsin, according to the Associated Press (AP).

His 54-year-old father Thomas Munn, mother Dawn Munn, 55, and his sisters Kristi Munn, 29, and Kayli Munn, 18, were arrested in Borger, about 65 kilometres northwest of Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle. They were booked into the Randall County Jail in Amarillo pending their initial court appearances on Wednesday.

This was one of the largest single-day arrests of those accused in a Capitol riots case made by federal authorities and the largest family charged together so far, according to news channel CNN.