COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A former congressional candidate from Columbus has been arrested by the FBI on Friday in connection to the 2021 Capitol riots.
Cleophus Dulaney, 63, is facing multiple charges, including assaulting law enforcement, during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C. Dulaney was identified in videos as moving barriers to allow a mob of rioters to storm the Capitol grounds.
According to court documents, Dulaney was at the front of a mob that breached the Capitol on the west side of its grounds. He was captured in video moving several barricades and helping the crowd break through multiple lines of barriers. At one point, according to the complaint, he and several others threw a bike rack barricade at police officers.
The charges against Dulaney include multiple felonies, such as obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder and assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers. Dulaney is also charged with a slate of misdemeanors related to unlawfully entering restricted property and engaging in physical violence on Capitol grounds.
Dulaney ran a failed campaign for Ohio’s third U.S. House district in 2020, losing the Republican nomination to Mark Richardson 86.4% to 13.6%.