Man identified as speaker’s office invader appears before judge

This undated photo provided by the Washington County Sheriff’s Office shows Arkansas resident Richard Barnett (Washington County Sheriff’s Office via AP)

The man identified as the rioter photographed sitting in House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office chair during last week’s Capitol insurrection made his initial federal court appearance on Tuesday.

Richard Barnett, 60, of Gravette, Arkansas, appeared before US magistrate judge Erin Wiedemann in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to hear the charges against him.