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BumRushDaShow

(140,915 posts)
Fri Aug 30, 2024, 03:49 PM Aug 30

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/

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Law enforcement searching for Jan. 6 rioter​ Anthony Vo, who failed to report to prison over summer (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Aug 30 OP
Sucks to be him sboatcar Aug 30 #1
yep. and his sentence is only 9 months. If that worth having to remain outside USA forever? BlueWaveNeverEnd Aug 30 #11
I doubt these racist tratiors will go to a non-extradition country Zoomie1986 Aug 31 #30
We were in traffic court a long time ago Marthe48 Aug 30 #2
How brown was he? Zoomie1986 Aug 31 #29
That's what happens when you don't remand an unrepentant convict immediately at sentencing PSPS Aug 30 #3
They should look at Mar-a-lago PittBlue Aug 30 #4
He'll turn up, and they know it. JohnnyRingo Aug 30 #5
Only a matter of time republianmushroom Aug 30 #9
Machine guns should have been used to remove this sewage. Lucky Luciano Aug 30 #6
It's been moniss Aug 30 #7
The first thing I said as I watched the traitors: If those were black people, they'd already be dead in the street. mucholderthandirt Aug 31 #18
Too true. White children (who become white men) aren't given "the Talk." C0RI0LANUS Aug 31 #21
No need to believe Zoomie1986 Aug 31 #28
His plan - Lay low until his savior issues the blanket pardon in November n/t tom_kelly Aug 30 #8
Correct Prairie Gates Aug 30 #12
If he doesn't get the fucking shit, he will do an extra year or two on top of the stupid shit he's already done. SoFlaBro Aug 30 #14
You might have something there. JohnnyRingo Aug 31 #16
Not November. He'll have to hide until the inauguration. JustABozoOnThisBus Aug 31 #24
Even if he won, TSF can't do the pardon until he's sworn in Zoomie1986 Aug 31 #27
A CONSPIRACY? Jimvanhise Aug 30 #10
Did they look up Trump's ass? LudwigPastorius Aug 30 #13
Too tough to do 9 months orangecrush Aug 31 #15
Probably more than 9 months. Avoiding the sentence will likely cost him some time. nt JustABozoOnThisBus Aug 31 #25
My guess is he bailed to vietnam onetexan Aug 31 #17
Or, he's bailed to some enclave here in the US. In STLMO, we have a large Vietnamese community. SWBTATTReg Aug 31 #33
Has anyone checked the Dump campaign headquarters? mdbl Aug 31 #19
Why is it we expect these jackasses to "report" for their jail sentences... malthaussen Aug 31 #20
If the miscreant fled to Canada, C0RI0LANUS Aug 31 #22
... BumRushDaShow Aug 31 #23
Good one! Thanks for the laugh. C0RI0LANUS Aug 31 #32
This is why you deny bail Zoomie1986 Aug 31 #26
Bring in his mother Zoomie1986 Aug 31 #31
 

Zoomie1986

(1,213 posts)
30. I doubt these racist tratiors will go to a non-extradition country
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 02:55 PM
Aug 31

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)
2. We were in traffic court a long time ago
Fri Aug 30, 2024, 04:07 PM
Aug 30

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.

PSPS

(14,100 posts)
3. That's what happens when you don't remand an unrepentant convict immediately at sentencing
Fri Aug 30, 2024, 04:17 PM
Aug 30

Why did they give him a year to "turn himself in" when it was obvious he would abscond?

JohnnyRingo

(19,266 posts)
5. He'll turn up, and they know it.
Fri Aug 30, 2024, 05:06 PM
Aug 30

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.

moniss

(5,451 posts)
7. It's been
Fri Aug 30, 2024, 06:33 PM
Aug 30

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)
18. The first thing I said as I watched the traitors: If those were black people, they'd already be dead in the street.
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 05:09 AM
Aug 31

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.

 

Zoomie1986

(1,213 posts)
28. No need to believe
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 02:50 PM
Aug 31

We all know that brown people who tried this would have been D-E-A-D within 30 minutes of breaching the barriers.

Prairie Gates

(2,664 posts)
12. Correct
Fri Aug 30, 2024, 09:07 PM
Aug 30

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)
14. If he doesn't get the fucking shit, he will do an extra year or two on top of the stupid shit he's already done.
Fri Aug 30, 2024, 09:42 PM
Aug 30

JohnnyRingo

(19,266 posts)
16. You might have something there.
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 02:25 AM
Aug 31

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)
24. Not November. He'll have to hide until the inauguration.
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 01:34 PM
Aug 31

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.

Jimvanhise

(361 posts)
10. A CONSPIRACY?
Fri Aug 30, 2024, 07:42 PM
Aug 30

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?

SWBTATTReg

(23,991 posts)
33. Or, he's bailed to some enclave here in the US. In STLMO, we have a large Vietnamese community.
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 05:30 PM
Aug 31

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.

malthaussen

(17,647 posts)
20. Why is it we expect these jackasses to "report" for their jail sentences...
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 11:06 AM
Aug 31

... when normal people are dragged off in cuffs and wait out their time in cells?

-- Mal

C0RI0LANUS

(1,253 posts)
22. If the miscreant fled to Canada,
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 11:36 AM
Aug 31

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."

 

Zoomie1986

(1,213 posts)
31. Bring in his mother
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 03:02 PM
Aug 31

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.

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