{"id":1270264,"date":"2023-10-24T16:50:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T21:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1270264"},"modified":"2023-10-26T08:11:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T13:11:32","slug":"longview-man-set-to-plead-guilty-to-federal-charges-in-capitol-riot-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1270264","title":{"rendered":"Longview man \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcset to plead guilty\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to federal charges in Capitol riot case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1270265\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/ryan_nichols_mugshot-175x98.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/ryan_nichols_mugshot-175x98.webp 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/ryan_nichols_mugshot-200x113.webp 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/ryan_nichols_mugshot-550x310.webp 550w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/ryan_nichols_mugshot-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/ryan_nichols_mugshot.webp 876w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A Longview man federally charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is set to plead guilty as part of a plea agreement in November. Ryan Nichols, 32, has rejected previous plea deal offers from government prosecutors, and is accused of several crimes stemming from the riot ranging from civil disorder to assaulting federal officers. In a motion filed by the defense, it said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mr. Nichols is set to plead guilty in this Court sometime around the trial date.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d A plea agreement hearing has been set for Nov. 7. The government said in a previous court filing they had planned to present evidence in a trial focusing on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the defendant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own words.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Nichols and his co-defendant Alex Harkrider were arrested after officials with the Department of Justice reported they had been planning to storm the Capitol for weeks and posted about the riot several times to social media. In a later filing, Nichols claimed his involvement was influenced by social media.<\/p>\n<p>Nichols was granted pre-trial release in November 2022 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153strictly for the purpose of preparing for trial\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and was ordered to submit to ankle monitoring. He is set to appear for his plea agreement hearing in two weeks in a Washington, D.C. courtroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A Longview man federally charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is set to plead guilty as part of a plea agreement in November. Ryan Nichols, 32, has rejected previous plea deal offers from government prosecutors, and is accused of several crimes stemming from the riot ranging from civil disorder to assaulting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1270264\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview man \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcset to plead guilty\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to federal charges in Capitol riot case<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1270269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/ryan_nichols_mugshot-175x98.webp","fifu_image_alt":"Longview man \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcset to plead guilty\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to federal charges in Capitol riot case","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 11:23:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/ryan_nichols_mugshot-175x98.webp","fifu_image_alt":"Longview man \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcset to plead guilty\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to federal charges in Capitol riot case","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1270264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270313,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270264\/revisions\/1270313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1270269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1270264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1270264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1270264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}