Man charged after arrest connected to January 6 Capitol pipe bombs

The pipe bombs were placed on the evening of January 5 2021, near the offices of the Democratic and Republican national committees

Images from an FBI poster seeking a suspect who allegedly placed pipe bombs in Washington on Jan.uary 6 2021 (FBI/AP)

A man was arrested in the FBI’s nearly five-year-old investigation into pipe bombs placed outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of the January 6 2021, riot at the Capitol and has been charged with an explosives offence, prosecutors said.

The arrest marks the first time investigators have identified a suspect in an act that had long vexed law enforcement, spawned a multitude of conspiracy theories and remained an enduring mystery in the shadow of the dark chapter of American history that is the violent Capitol siege.