FBI makes arrest involving placed pipe bombs evening before Jan 6, 2021

The Hill - The FBI has made an arrest in its nearly five-year-old investigation into who placed pipe bombs outside the offices of the Democratic and Republican national committees the evening before Jan. 6, 2021.

The arrest marks the first action in the case in years, as police had been unable to identify the suspect, whose face was largely shielded in video footage that showed them laying the bombs near each party’s headquarters.

The FBI did not share any additional information about the suspect.

The bombs were swiftly disabled shortly after they were discovered, but they sent police scrambling the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, shortly before a riot descended on the Capitol.