A Lycoming County man and woman are expected to plead guilty next month to misdemeanor charges arising from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol in Washington.
That is the plan revealed Monday during a status conference with District of Columbia federal Judge Reggie B. Walton.
The attorney for Mark R. Aungst, 47, of South Williamsport, said his client already has signed a plea agreement.
The attorney for Tammy A. Bronsburg, 51, of Williamsport, told the judge she is reviewing hers. Neither plea agreement has been made part of the court record.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Mona Furst in response to the judge’s questions said neither Aungst nor Bronsburg assaulted a police officer or stole or damaged government property. Neither has a criminal record, she said.
Aungst last year rejected a plea offer and the government had done the same with a counter offer from him that would have prevented prosecution if he completed 50 hours of community service.
The two are charged by criminal information with entering and disruptive conduct in a restricted building and violent entry and demonstrating in a Capitol building.
Aungst and Bronsburg, who also goes by Tammy Butry, are among more than 700 charged after the Capitol was breached.
The two had traveled by chartered bus to the nation’s capital for a President Trump rally that preceded the riot.
An FBI affidavit filed in their case states they were observed on a cell phone video on the Senate side of the Capitol near the north entrance door.
The document alleges Bronsburg was the woman pictured in a Capitol hallway with blue Trump flag tied around her shoulders appearing to be taking a selfie.
Another of the pictures in the affidavit is one taken on a bus with Aungst who was wearing a Trump baseball cap and giving a thumb’s up gesture.
A plea offer was made last year Brian Gundersen, 26, of State College, a third central Pennsylvania resident accused in the riot.
His attorney said at the time he needed more time to review the voluminous material provided by the government.
The next status conference in that case is scheduled for June 22.
A superseding indictment was returned in May 2021 against Gundersen adding counts of assault and resisting or impeding officers.
He also is charged with engaging in an act of violence within the Capitol grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct, entering and remaining in a restricted building and demonstrating in a Capitol building.
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