58 Ohioans charged connected to Capitol riot, 13 from Dayton area

U.S. Attorney’s Office data said that 58 of these defendants were in Ohio, and 13 were from the greater Dayton area:

Kenneth Duncan Massie of Greenfield and twin brothers Steven and Robert Hanna also were arrested in Dayton.

As of Aug. 3, Ohio had the sixth-most people charged connected to the U.S. Capitol riot of all the states, following after Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania, New York and California, according to U.S. Attorney’s Office data. That generally aligns with population, as those states are six of the seven most-populous (excluding only Illinois).

Florida had the most people facing charges connected to the riot at 99 people, followed by Texas with 84, Pennsylvania with 78, New York with 65 and California with 61, the data said.

Charges in the Dayton area range in severity. Some are accused of planning to carry out the riot before it took place, while others are only accused of walking through the Capitol building as part of the crowd.

David Mehaffie, for example, was found guilty of aiding and abetting in assaulting, resisting or impeding law enforcement officers after investigators said he hung from an archway and shouted directions to rioters below that were struggling with law enforcement.

Jessica Watkins of Woodstock was accused of leading the “Ohio team of Oath Keepers” during the riot, shouldering through the crowd and going into the building in military formation. Though she was found not guilty of the most serious charge of seditious conspiracy, she was found guilty of other crimes like civil disorder and obstructing an official proceeding.

Some of the most recent arrests, though, including Dean Robert Harshman and both Steven and Robert Hanna, were accused in federal court of entering the Capitol building and walking around before leaving.