Georgia man arrested after Capitol riot had assault weapons, hundreds of ammo rounds

The Americus attorney accused of storming the U.S. Capitol after claiming to have been among the rioters who went inside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office on Jan. 6 was on Thursday ordered to remain behind bars while the case against him plays out.

The bespectacled, gray-bearded and ponytailed William McCall Calhoun Jr., shackled at the waist and feet and wearing a soft-blue surgical mask, sat in federal court in Macon for a three-hour detention hearing where a judge ruled Calhoun a potential danger were he released from custody.

Calhoun, 58, was escorted in by five U.S. Marshals and represented by an appointed lawyer. He said nothing for the record — though he was never asked to — as prosecutors laid out alleged evidence against him in their efforts to keep him jailed.

Calhoun was arrested in Macon on Friday after federal agents tracked him down at his sister’s house. Though he maintains a home inside his Sumter County law practice some 75 miles away, he had been staying at his sister’s place for a week or so in the wake of the Washington D.C., riot.

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