14 Oklahomans Charged In Relation To 2021 US Capitol Riot

14 Oklahomans have been charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot, resulting in several sentencing agreements, while trials for some defendants continue into 2025.

Tuesday, January 7th 2025, 2:50 pm

By: News On 6, News 9

Four years after Jan. 6, 2021, multiple people from across the nation have been charged by federal prosecutors in relation to the attack on the United States Capitol building in Washington D.C.

According to the Department of Justice, 14 Oklahomans have been charged in connection with the Capitol riot.

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Matthew Titus Allen

Federal prosecutors charged Matthew Titus Allen from Castle, Oklahoma after he was arrested on May 15, 2024, in Tulsa.

Allen was charged with Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building or Grounds; Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building.

Court documents say Allen admitted he and his wife traveled to Washington to listen to former President Donald Trump's speech, before following a crowd of protestors into the Capitol building.

Allen later pleaded guilty to two charges, and his sentencing is set for Jan. 31, 2025.

Leslie Bogue

67-year-old Leslie Bogue, from Marlow, Oklahoma, was arrested on May 17, 2024, in Oklahoma City.

Bogue was charged with:

Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds
Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds
Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building or Grounds, and Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building.

Bogue has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Darrin Bradley

Darrin Bradley was arrested on Aug. 26, 2024, in Oklahoma City, and charged with Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building or Grounds; Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building

Benjamin Scott Burlew

44-year-old Benjamin Scott Burlew from Miami, Oklahoma, was taken into custody on Aug. 19, 2021.

Burlew was taken into custody after prosecutors say he was captured in two videos assaulting a photographer at the U.S. Capitol.

Court documents say Burlew aggressively confronted the photographer who was trying to get out of the way, then pushed and shoved him down.

Burlew was charged with:

Civil Disorder
Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers
Entering and Remaining in Restricted Grounds
Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Grounds
Physical Violence in Restricted Grounds
Act of Physical Violence in the Capitol Grounds
Striking, Beating, or Wounding of Another Person within the Territorial Jurisdiction
Simple Assault within the Territorial Jurisdiction.

Burlew's sentencing was reset for Jan. 16, 2025.

David Davis

Mr. Davis was arrested in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on June 9, 2023. Shortly after the attack at the capitol, the FBI said it received an anonymous tip on Jan. 16, 2021, that Davis had posted extensively on social admitting that he had been inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Court documents say the tip provided screenshots of an account and said he went by David A Davis on Facebook. Various photos and videos from his own accounts from the government identify Davis as a participant in the capitol attack.

Davis was charged with:

Entering and Remaining in Restricted Grounds
Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds
Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building or Grounds
Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building.

Danielle Nicole Doyle

Federal agents were tipped off to Doyle's presence inside the Capitol by a former colleague with the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Doyle was arrested in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on Feb. 25, 2021. In October of that year, she was sentenced to two months probation with $3,510 in fees and fines.

She pleaded not guilty to all county but Violent Entry and Disorderly Conduct on Capitol Ground, according to the DOJ. Irven Box, Doyle's attorney, was pleased with the Judge's decision.

"I think he took everything into consideration: considered her past background, considered what she’s doing now, considered she’s been a productive citizen in this state of Oklahoma for thirty-some years," Box said. "She was trying to exhibit her views, she’s passionate about politics, she was passionate about what this country was doing and where it was going and she expressed them by going to the Capitol that day which was a mistake."

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Andrew C. Ericson

Mr. Ericson of Muskogee, Oklahoma, was sentenced to two years probation that included 20 days of jail served on consecutive weekends, with $500 restitution for his role in the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot.

He was arrested in Muskogee on Jan. 22, 2021 and charged in August. He reached his plea agreement on Sept. 23. Prosecutors say Ericson was part of the group that breached the Capitol building while Congress was convened to count the electoral votes.

According to court records, federal prosecutors say Ericson recorded himself and took photos on Snapchat during the attack. The FBI said Ericson admitted to taking pictures of himself in Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s conference room and taking a beer from the fridge.

Ericson pleaded guilty to one charge: Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building.

The other charges were dismissed, and Ericson was sentenced on Dec. 10. 2021, to 20 days of intermittent confinement (serving the sentence on consecutive weekends), 24 months of probation, a $10.00 special assessment and $500 in restitution.

Levi Roy Gable

Gable pleaded guilty to Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds in Sept. 2022. The FBI affidavit said one of Gable's old fraternity brothers identified him from several videos posted on social media on Jan. 6, 2021, that appeared to be from inside the U.S. Capitol building.

Another witness submitted a public tip to the FBI of screenshot photos showing Gable at the capitol building. He was arrested in Tulsa and sentenced on Jan. 17, 2023, to 24 months probation and fines of $1,525.

Anthony Alfred Griffith Sr.

Griffith was arrested on March 4, 2021, in Muskogee, and his initial appearance before a court was held on March 9.

According to court records, Griffith and fellow Jan. 6 defendant Jerry Ryals traveled to the US Capitol together and were photographed together within the structure multiple times.

Griffith was charged with:

Obstruction of an Official Proceeding
Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds
Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds
Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building; Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building

Griffith pleaded not guilty to all charges. On May 16, 2023, he was found guilty in a bench trial on all four charges.

He was sentenced on Sept. 1, 2023, to 6 months incarceration, 12 months of supervised release, a special assessment of $70 and restitution of $500.

Tricia LaCount

LaCount was arrested on April 18, 2023, in Afton, Oklahoma.

According to the FBI, LaCount was identified by two witnesses. The first witness pointed law enforcement to a video on LaCount’s Facebook page that appeared to show her in Washington on the day of the riot. The second witness, a neighbor, said that LaCount had told them she was in Washington on Jan. 6.

LaCount was charged with:

Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds;
Disorderly or Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds;
Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building;
Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building

LaCount pleaded Guilty to the first charge, while the other charges are dismissed.

LaCount was sentenced on Nov. 26, 2024, to 36 months of probation, a special assessment of $25 and restitution of $500.

Jerry Ryals

Ryals, who law enforcement says traveled to Washington with fellow Jan. 6 defendant Anthony Alfred Griffith Sr., was arrested in Muskogee on March 4, 2021, the same day as Griffith.

Ryals was charged with:

Obstruction of an Official Proceeding;
Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds;
Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds;
Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building; Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building

At an arrangement scheduled for April 7, 2021, Ryals pleaded not guilty on all counts. Later, Ryals changed his plea to guilty on May 5, 2022.

On Oct. 18, 2022, Ryals was sentenced to 9 months of incarceration, 36 months of supervised release and a $2,000 restitution.

Tanner Bryce Sells

Arrested on May 17, 2021, in Chandler, Oklahoma, prosecutors say Sells was identified by a witness who identified Sells in a photo from social media showing him inside the US Capitol.

Sells was charged with:

Knowingly Entering or Remaining in any Restricted Building or Grounds Without Lawful Authority
Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds
Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building
Parading, Demonstrating or Picketing in a Capitol Building

Sells entered a plea agreement on Sept. 27, 2021, pleading guilty to Parading, Demonstrating or Picketing in a Capitol Building.

Sells was sentenced on Jan. 18, 2022, to 24 months probation, including 90 days of home detention, 50 hours of community service, a $1,500 fine and a $500 restitution.

Edward T. Spain Jr.

In January 2021, the FBI said it received numerous online tips suggesting Edward T. Spain Jr. was at the US Capitol on Jan. 6.

The FBI said it was able to associate a telephone number belonging to Spain as having been inside the US Capitol at the time of the Jan. 6 riot.

Spain was also identified on video captured inside the Capitol, and on Aug. 16, 2021, Spain signed a written statement confessing to entering the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Spain was charged with:

Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds
Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds
Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building
Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building

Spain later pleaded guilty to one charge, Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building, while the other charges were dismissed.

Spain was sentenced on May 4, 2022, to 36 months of probation, 60 hours of community service, a $500 restitution and a $10 special assessment.

Dova Alina Winegeart

On July 19, 2022, Winegeart was taken into custody in Fairview, Oklahoma, after being identified by close acquaintances.

Federal prosecutors said Winegeart's friends provided detectives with text messages allegedly sent by Winegeart while she was in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.

Investigators say Winegeart swung a pole at a House of Representatives door, breaking the glass.

Winegeart was charged with:

Attempted Destruction of Government Property
Entering and Remaining in any Restricted Building or Grounds
Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds
Engaging in Physical Violence in a Restricted Building or Grounds
Act of Physical Violence in the Capitol Grounds or Buildings

Winegeart pleaded not guilty to all charges and was later found guilty on one charge, Attempted Destruction of Government Property, in a bench trial on July 16, 2024. She was found not guilty on the remaining charges.

Winegeart was sentenced on Dec. 9, 2024, to 4 months of incarceration, 12 months of supervised release, a special assessment of $25 and a fine of $1,000.

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