Law enforcement searching for Jan. 6 rioter Anthony Vo, who failed to report to prison over summer
Source: CBS News
Updated on: August 30, 2024 / 2:02 PM EDT
Law enforcement officials are searching for a convicted U.S. Capitol rioter who failed to report to prison earlier this summer to begin serving his nine-month sentence and has not surfaced for weeks.
Multiple sources told CBS News there is an active effort to find Antony Vo of Indiana, who was sentenced in April and expected to report to the federal correctional facility in Terre Haute, Indiana, by early summer. One law enforcement source said investigators are exploring the possibility that Vo is in Canada.
Vo had already drawn additional scrutiny and reprimands from the judge and prosecutors during his criminal case, after allegedly violating pretrial release conditions, referring to the court system as a "kangaroo court," criticizing the judge and posting conspiracy theories about Jan. 6, 2021, on his social media account.
A federal jury convicted Vo of four criminal counts in September 2023, including disorderly conduct. Prosecutors argued Vo was amid the mob inside the Capitol for approximately 27 minutes, snapping photos and yelling "Freedom!" while moving through the Capitol complex.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-capitol-riot-antony-vo-disappears/
sboatcar
(545 posts)if you don't show up to take your licks, then you just end up getting more of them.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(10,066 posts)Zoomie1986
(1,213 posts)Too brown and he's probably too stupid to know or learn a foreign language.
I'll bet that he's somewhere with English speakers, and none of those countries want garbage like him polluting their lands. Now that the word is out, they'll hunt him down and cough him up.
Marthe48
(18,754 posts)someone didn't come for their court appearance and the judge issued a bench warrant before the echoes of the guy's name died down.
But, they weren't a traitor, just someone who broke a traffic law.
Zoomie1986
(1,213 posts)That seems to make all the difference in who to punish, how and when.
PSPS
(14,100 posts)Why did they give him a year to "turn himself in" when it was obvious he would abscond?
PittBlue
(4,368 posts)I hear its a sanctuary for J6 rioters.
JohnnyRingo
(19,266 posts)Life in the modern digital world is different from decades ago when one could just drop off the map. ....for better or worse.
Flock cameras, chipped licenses, and digital paper trails use red flags to identify and pinpoint fugitives.
republianmushroom
(17,229 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,397 posts)moniss
(5,451 posts)said many times before, and it is shamefully true, that if this had been a mob of Black Lives Matter protesters the police response would have been different.
mucholderthandirt
(1,099 posts)I believed it then, I believe it now. I mean, black people aren't safe from police anywhere, anytime, for any reason. But white people, especially white men, aren't under that threat, no matter what they do.
Things came very close to being much, much worse. My opinion is, you were even there, on the fringes, saying nothing, doing nothing? Minimum of twenty years, no early release. Anyone who did more than that, it starts at twenty and ends at life in prison, no parole.
C0RI0LANUS
(1,253 posts)Zoomie1986
(1,213 posts)We all know that brown people who tried this would have been D-E-A-D within 30 minutes of breaching the barriers.
tom_kelly
(1,047 posts)Prairie Gates
(2,664 posts)He's counting on the pardon to stay out of prison. Not a terrible calculation, if I'm honest. Coin toss.
SoFlaBro
(3,104 posts)JohnnyRingo
(19,266 posts)His followers are pretty deluded to begin with, and he might think it'll be safe to come out later for a full pardon and a Presidential Medal Of Freedom.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,735 posts)Maybe he can get lost in that huuuuuge inaugural speech audience.
Only one problem: The crowd will indeed be huge, but the speaker will be Harris. No pardon for you.
Zoomie1986
(1,213 posts)You do realize that, right?
Jimvanhise
(361 posts)How can a man who was there and who entered the Capitol call it a conspiracy? Did someone force him to enter the capitol through broken doors?
LudwigPastorius
(10,635 posts)orangecrush
(21,330 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,735 posts)onetexan
(13,808 posts)SWBTATTReg
(23,991 posts)Perhaps the powers that be, are more than likely very aware of this, and do have eyes out for this guy. It's just a matter of time I suspect that they'll catch the guy. Idiot. He should have went in, and perhaps gotten time off for good behavior...not anymore.
mdbl
(5,418 posts)just a thought.
malthaussen
(17,647 posts)... when normal people are dragged off in cuffs and wait out their time in cells?
-- Mal
C0RI0LANUS
(1,253 posts)the RCMP always gets their man. I hope it will be her.
"Ma'am, the doofus below with the silly smile is who you're looking for."
BumRushDaShow
(140,915 posts)C0RI0LANUS
(1,253 posts)Zoomie1986
(1,213 posts)And lock them up until the legalities are done.
Zoomie1986
(1,213 posts)She's also charged with being part of the insurrection.
Haul her ass in, lock her up, and keep her in jail for accessory after the fact for assisting a convict's escape. Because you know she helped him or at least knows all about the escape and where he is.