Citadel student involved in Jan. 6 Capitol riot offered plea deal, gets OK to travel

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A Citadel cadet and another South Carolinian have been offered plea deals to various charges connected to the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol.

The two men, Citadel cadet Elias Irizarry and his friend, Elliot Bishai, who were at the Capitol together on Jan. 6, have made no decisions on whether to accept the guilty plea offers. Lawyers for both men, whose homes are in York County, said at a Wednesday status hearing that they only received the offers late last week and have not had a chance to fully review them.

Both have been charged with knowingly disrupting a session of Congress, disorderly conduct in a federal building, demonstrating in a Capitol building and entering and remaining in a Capitol building.

Details of the offers extended to the pair were not publicly available Wednesday in their virtual hearing before U.S. Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington.

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Elias Irizarry is the son of veteran soap opera actor, Vincent Irizarry.