By MAXINE BERNSTEIN/The Oregonian/OregonLive
A Lincoln City man is among the latest accused in federal court of storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Jeffrey W. Hubbard, 46, was caught on video climbing through a window of the Capitol next to the Senate wing door, taking photos in the National Statuary Hall and joining in chants of “Stop the Steal!’’ and “We Want Trump” as he and other intruders confronted a wall of law enforcement officers who were attempting to block entry into the House chamber, FBI agent Charles Gravis wrote in an affidavit unsealed Wednesday.
Hubbard could be heard on the video shouting “Break it down” by the open door of the open House chamber, the agent wrote.
Hubbard entered the Capitol at 2:22 p.m. and remained inside just under an hour, leaving at 3:16 p.m., according to U.S. Capitol Police surveillance, the affidavit said. About 100 people have pleaded guilty, most of them to the misdemeanor charge of parading, demonstrating or picketing in any of the Capitol buildings.
FBI agents arrested Hubbard at the home of his mother Wednesday morning in Lincoln City and made his first appearance in U.S. District Court in Portland Wednesday afternoon. He is accused of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.
He’s the fifth person from Oregon and one of roughly 675 defendants facing federal charges from the insurrection at the Capitol when a mob sought to disrupt the electoral vote tally in Congress that day. Another man from Washington also appeared in federal court in Oregon on similar charges. About 140 police officers were injured in the siege and police fatally shot one woman outside the House chamber.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew D. Hallman released Hubbard pending trial. Hubbard must not travel to Washington, D.C., except for court purposes, must not possess or be around any weapons and must check in weekly with his pretrial services officer, the judge ordered.
He is scheduled next to appear remotely in federal court in the District of Columbia on Dec. 14.
Hubbard, appearing by video from the U.S. Marshals Service lockup in the courthouse, told the judge he understood and would follow the conditions.
According to court records, a Lincoln City police detective, who was investigating Hubbard in a separate case, had stopped by his home Jan. 7. He wasn’t home but his mother told the detective that was because Hubbard was attending a Trump rally in Washington, D.C.
