Feds charge nine Oath Keepers with conspiring to storm US Capitol

Following Trump, the group planned a military-style attack that even contemplated staging an armed ‘reaction’ force.

A federal grand jury indicted nine associates of the far-right, anti-government Oath Keepers militia on Friday for conspiring to storm the US Capitol on January 6 to prevent Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s election victory. In a superseding indictment, US prosecutors charged six people allegedly connected to Oath Keepers; Ohio residents Sandra Ruth Parker, 60, and her husband Bennie Alvin Parker, 70, Graydon Young, 54, of Florida, Kelly Meggs, 52, and his wife Connie Meggs, 59, also of Florida, and Laura Steele, 52, of North Carolina. The remaining three defendants – Thomas Caldwell, Jessica Watkins and Donovan Crowl – were previously indicted for conspiracy in January. In the latest version of the indictment, the government filed additional charges against Caldwell for tampering with evidence by deleting his Facebook posts.