FBI agents on Friday arrested a Kansas State University graduate teaching assistant in connection to the events surrounding the January 6th U.S. Capitol insurrection..
William Pope of Topeka, a doctoral student in leadership communication at K-State, was taken into custody without incident by individuals from the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and Topeka Police Department.
Pope was charged with obstruction or impeding an official proceeding; civil disorder; 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; impeding passage through the Capitol grounds of buildings; and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.
Federal agents additionally captured Pope’s brother, Michael Pope, of Sandpoint, Idaho, Friday on similar charges.
