Eric Munchel, accused of being 'zip tie guy', held without bond pending further hearings, fed judge

Eric Munchel, accused of being 'zip tie guy', held without bond pending further hearings, federal judge rules


The Nashville man believed to have brought plastic hand restraints into the U.S. Capitol will stay in custody until at least next week, a federal judge ruled Monday.

Eric Munchel, 30, was accused by online researchers as being one of the men who carried zip ties into the U.S. Capitol during the deadly riot Wednesday after a rally in support of outgoing President Donald Trump.

He was arrested over the weekend and now faces federal charges.

The FBI reported photos of a person believed to be Munchel carrying plastic restraints, an item in a holster on his right hip and a cellphone mounted on his chest with the camera facing outward among the "crowd of individuals who forcibly entered the U.S. Capitol and impeded, disrupted, and disturbed the orderly conduct of business by the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate" on Jan. 6.

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