A Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection inside the U.S. Capitol.
Brian McCreary, 34, of North Adams, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds, court documents state.
McCreary was photographed wearing a blue mask and standing near Jacob Chansley, also known as the QAnon shaman, inside the Capitol on Jan. 6.
His coworkers at Domino’s Pizza tweeted at the FBI stating it was him.
“My mind was blown,” coworker Aine McDonald said. “Like I knew that Brian would do something like that. But it blew my mind that he actually did.”
Since then he’s lost his job and had a “massive increase in anxiety and stress.”
But his biggest worry was going to jail and losing time with his young daughter, he previously told MassLive.
“The thought of losing my daughter is regularly overwhelming,” McCreary told MassLive in February. “I have never cried as much as I have the past weekend.”
McCreary, who has no criminal past, will be sentenced in January. Court documents state that sentencing guidelines range from zero to six months incarcerated.
Additionally McCreary agreed to pay $500 in restitution as $1,495,326.55 in damages were made to the Capitol in Jan. 6.
The court documents state that McCreary told the FBI “he traveled to Washington D.C. to attend the ‘rally’ because he was frustrated with the results of the 2020 Presidential election, specifically the fact that an audit was not performed to address allegations of mass voter fraud.”
He then found himself documenting others, he told the Berkshire Eagle.
“I found myself suddenly surrounded by individuals who were equipped to break into the Capitol building … and immediately began recording them in action. I followed these people inside the Capitol while continually recording various moments,” he told the newspaper.
McCreary also told the FBI “he was focused on recording people who were committing crimes or inciting violence,” documents state.
McCreary told MassLive he has no regrets sending in the photos and videos he got while in the Capitol to the FBI.
“I do hope the evidence I provided to the FBI helped in some capacity put away individuals who were destructive,” he said.
One of the eight videos McCreary provided captured the rioters who chased Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman, Courthouse News reported.
He told the judge he realizes now he should’ve known he wasn’t supposed to be there.
“I realized upon reflection that that should have been obvious to me,” McCreary said, according to the news service.
There have been 103 guilty pleas in relation to the Capitol insurrection, the news service reported.
Last week, Thomas Gallagher, the first person in New England to be arrested by the Boston office of the FBI as part of the nationwide search for individuals who breached the Capitol, was sentenced to two years of probation.
As part of his plea deal, Gallagher pleaded guilty in July to a misdemeanor of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a U.S. Capitol building.
As part of the plea deal, prosecutors then dropped three other charges, including remaining in a restricted building; disorderly conduct in a restricted building; and disorderly conduct in a U.S. Capitol building, according to The Associated Press.
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