Crime Man in ‘Camp Auschwitz’ Hoodie Charged with Multiple Federal Crimes Including Violent Entry and Disorderly Conduct on Capitol Grounds

Robert Keith Packer, the man law enforcement spotted wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” hooded sweatshirt during the U.S. Capitol siege last Wednesday, has been arrested.

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Packer was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals based in Norfolk, Virginia and is currently being held at Western Tidewater Regional Jail in Suffolk, the local NBC affiliate WAVY reported.

CBS News’ Catherine Herridge originally reported on the arrest citing an unnamed “law enforcement source” late Wednesday morning:

CBS News’ @CBS_Herridge reports the rioter wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt has been arrested in Newport News, Virginia, according to a law enforcement source. pic.twitter.com/MM1cQ3paZl

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Mark Leffingwell has been charged with assault on a federal law enforcement officer and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds after Charges for the rioters have included entering and remaining on restricted grounds , violent entry and theft of public property. Other Arrests.

Packer faces charges of unlawful entry into the U.S. Capitol and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds , according to an The image of a man wearing a black hoodie with the words " Camp Auschwitz " emblazoned in white letters rinside the U.S. Capitol building was circulated

— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) January 13, 2021

A criminal complaint was filed against Packer by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia early Wednesday morning. Initially sealed, that one-page document has now been made public and a copy was obtained by Law&Crime.

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In line with a trend seen in the early stages of previous Capitol riot cases, Packer’s charge sheet cites only a pair of relatively light counts: knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.

Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin, from the District of Columbia, told reporters that his prosecutors often file misdemeanor counts as a precursor to more serious charges.

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Man in ' Camp Auschwitz ' sweatshirt during Capitol riot arrested, law enforcement official says. A rioter who stormed the US Capitol last week wearing a According to a copy of the criminal complaint obtained by Law& Crime , the younger Mostofsky will be charged with various crimes including theft

The man wearing a " Camp Auschwitz " shirt who was photographed at last week's deadly pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol , was arrested in Packer is expected to be charged with unlawful conduct , entering the Capitol without permission and disorderly conduct . A bearded white man wearing a

“This is only the beginning,” Sherwin told reporters on Tuesday. “After these criminal charges are filed via criminal complaints, that allows us that allows law enforcement across the United States to arrest people from Dallas to Arkansas to Nashville to Cleveland to Jacksonville. That’s what’s happened over the past several days.”

Packer’s mother told WAVY News that she did not know where her son was at the time. The outlet’s reporter Brett Hall also interviewed Packer’s neighbors. One of them, Sydney Cohen, reportedly told him that Packer actually only owned a vacant lot there but that she spoke with him in the past, though never about politics.

“When you wear a T-shirt that glorifies the atrocities during WWII against the Jewish people and other people,” Cohen told the outlet. “It really hurts your heart.”

Packer’s infamous sweatshirt, which makes an antisemitic mockery of the genocide, is captioned on the bottom with the phrase “Work Brings Freedom,” an English rendering of “Arbeit macht frei,” a slogan that was affixed to the gates of numerous concentration camps by the Nazis.

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faces four federal charges , including disorderly conduct . An Alabama man was indicted Monday by a federal grand jury on weapons charges in connection to the deadly riots at the U.S. Capitol last Crime , the younger Mostofsky will be charged with various crimes including theft of

He was charged in federal arrest warrants issued by the FBI with “ violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds ” and “knowingly entering or The violence on January 6 resulted in five dead, including a Capitol Police officer. Since then, more than 70 people have been criminally

In the immediate aftermath of last week’s attack on the U.S. Capitol Complex, reports surfaced that at least one U.S. Capitol Police officer directed members of the pro-Trump mob to Jewish lawmakers’ offices, including incoming Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).

Packer was reportedly part of the group led toward Schumer’s office:

They directed members of a mob that also included literal Nazis wearing Camp Auschwitz and “6 million were not enough” shirts to Chuck Schumer’s office. https://t.co/b1OmgDAWKY

— Jenna Lowenstein (@just_jenna) January 8, 2021

As Law&Crime previously reported, Packer is known to be an extremist.

A remote hearing in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Packer’s case will be held on Wednesday afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Douglas E. Miller.

If convicted, he faces a maximum of 10 years and six months in prison.

Read the full criminal complaint below:

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