A self-published memoir on Amazon helped police catch a man who allegedly participated in the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol.
Marine Corps veteran Nathan Thornsberry, 42, of North Branch, Michigan, was arrested on Thursday on felony charges of obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder and assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers.
Police found out about Thornsberry, who allegedly used his body to ram a police barrier separating the rioters from the Capitol, after the Flint, Michigan, FBI office got a tip he was behind a self-published book on Amazon about the insurrection.
The memoir, January 6: A Patriot’s Story, was published under a different name, Nathaniel Matthews, but police allege that it is Thornsberry who wrote it.
The biographical details in the about the author section match Thornsberry’s, they said, and a subpoena of Amazon records showed the account as registered under the name Nathan Thornsberry, with a phone number associated with a Facebook account of the same name.
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