AUBURN — An Auburn-area man among a group of Proud Boys leaders accused of orchestrating last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol has been charged with yet another criminal count under a federal indictment unsealed this week.
Ethan Nordean, 31, who already was charged and detained on six criminal counts pending trial for his alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021, siege, now faces a seventh count for “assaulting, resisting impeding certain officers.”
The new charge against Nordean was detailed in a 30-page indictment unsealed Tuesday that primarily lays out seven new criminal counts against Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the Proud Boys’ former national chairman.
The indictment alleges that, in the weeks leading up to the Capitol breach, Tarrio created a special chapter of the Proud Boys known as the “Ministry of Self Defense” to plan the attack aimed to thwart Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election results. The group allegedly included Nordean and four other prominent members of the extremist group who already were co-defendants facing multiple federal criminal counts in the case.