PHILADELPHIA, PA – Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner is seeking to revoke the bail of a man accused of being a planner of the January 6th protest at the U.S. Capitol. Joshua Macias is being accused of criminal contempt by the City of Philadelphia after it was learned that he attended a January 5th meeting to plan the rally and eventual U.S. Capitol incursion on January 6th.
Macias has already been charged by the DAO with firearms crimes and attempting to interfere with the 2020 presidential election, after he was arrested by Philadelphia Police outside of the Pennsylvania Convention Center as election workers were still canvassing votes, Krasner’s office reported today.
The DAO has previously filed motions seeking to revoke his bail, as he has repeatedly violated conditions restricting social media use and rally activity set by the courts.
“In the bail revocation motion, the Commonwealth accused Macias of violating the court’s pre-trial conditions by posting his support for Bianca Garcia, a then-state legislative candidate in Texas, on social media,” Krasner said. “Since then, federal authorities have placed Garcia and Macias at a meeting in a Washington, D.C., underground parking garage, that took place the day before the insurrection, along with Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the violent extremist group Oath Keepers, and Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the violent extremist group Proud Boys.”
On January 12, 2022, Rhodes along with 10 other Oath Keepers were federally indicted for seditious conspiracy, related to their roles in the breach of the U.S. Capitol. On June 6, 2022, Tarrio and four other Proud Boys members were federally indicted for seditious conspiracy, related to their roles in the breach of the U.S. Capitol. Seditious Conspiracy is the most serious charge federal authorities have brought against Insurrection defendants to date. It has been brought against a small number of Insurrection defendants.
“The crimes we allege against Joshua Macias were always extremely serious, and as prosecutors we have an obligation to continuously review this case as new facts and information come to light,” District Attorney Larry Krasner said. “What we now allege is as follows: Macias, heavily armed, travelled from Virginia to Philadelphia on November 5, 2020, in an effort to interfere with the counting of presidential votes, motivated by his anti-democratic wish to preserve the power of Donald Trump, who lost re-election decisively. One month later, after he was released on cash bail over the Commonwealth’s objection, Macias attended a small, secretive meeting that included two persons now federally indicted for seditious conspiracy in connection with the Capitol insurrection.”
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