Right-wing internet personality “Baked Alaska” — who live-streamed himself storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 — was set to plead guilty to a federal charge on Wednesday as part of a plea deal reached with federal prosecutors, but the plea deal went up in smoke after he declared himself innocent, NBC News reports.

Documents in the case against former Maine gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler (I) were unsealed, revealing a disturbing pattern of child pornography consumption, the Bangor Daily News reports.

“After being forwarded a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, police in January found a video of an adult man sexually assaulting a girl who was between 4 and 6 years old in an online storage account belonging to Cutler… Dropbox, the provider of the storage account, had notified the national organization about the existence of the video in December.”

“In a second-floor bedroom of Cutler’s Brooklin home, police later found flash storage cards with ‘literally thousands of videos of very young children being sexually abused.'”

A New York City judge’s son who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6 wearing a furry “caveman” costume was sentenced to eight months in prison, the AP reports.

“In an effort to address rising crime rates, 19 mostly moderate House Democrats are urging Speaker Nancy Pelosi to hold a vote soon on bipartisan legislation that would increase funding for police departments across the country,” NBC News reports.

“The letter is the latest sign that Democrats, fighting to preserve their fragile majority this fall, are concerned about rising crime and the ‘defund the police’ messaging from progressives that contributed to the party’s loss of 13 House seats in the 2020 election.”

“Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers militia group leader charged with seditious conspiracy over the January 6 attack on the Capitol, tried to get a Donald Trump confidant to ask the former US president to allow his group to forcibly stop the peaceful transfer of power,“ The Guardian reports.

“The previously unknown phone call with the unidentified individual appears to indicate the Oath Keepers had contacts with at least one person close enough to Trump that Rhodes believed the individual would be a good person to consult with his request.”

“A military veteran from Georgia who attacked police officers at the Capitol as part of a pro-Trump mob attempting to overturn the 2020 election results was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison Monday,” NBC News reports.

“A former New York City police officer who claimed he was acting in self-defense when he swung a metal flagpole at a fellow officer during the attack on the Capitol last January was convicted on Monday of all charges, including assault,” the New York Times reports.

Former Idaho state Rep. Aaron von Ehlinger (R) was found guilty of raping a 19-year-old legislative intern, a 12-person jury concluded after 11 hours of deliberations over the course of two days,” the Idaho Statesman reports.

“A second member of the extremist group Oath Keepers pleaded guilty Friday to seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and will cooperate with federal prosecutors to avoid a possible multiyear prison term,” the Washington Post reports.

CNN: “The guilty plea is another major step in the criminal case against the Oath Keepers, as prosecutors work to show how they believe the group of men plotted to stash weapons across the Potomac River, go to the Capitol and stop Congress’ certification of the Electoral College vote.”

“The Federal Bureau of Investigation performed potentially millions of searches of American electronic data last year without a warrant, a revelation likely to stoke longstanding concerns in Congress about government surveillance and privacy,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“When some two dozen New Yorkers filed into a Manhattan courthouse this week to finish out their grand jury service, the case against a man who would have been the world’s most prominent criminal defendant was no longer before them,” the New York Times reports.

“That man, Donald Trump, was facing potential criminal charges from the grand jury this year over his business practices. But in the weeks since the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, stopped presenting evidence to the jurors about Mr. Trump, new signs have emerged that the former president will not be indicted in Manhattan in the foreseeable future — if at all.”

A reputed federal informant and whistleblower who went missing after he was reported to have turned over a trove of secret files about Deutsche Bank — which provided insight into the bank’s relationship with Donald Trump — was found dead at a Los Angeles school, NBC News reports.

“A Florida man has been arrested for allegedly pepper spraying officers at the Capitol on Jan. 6, and who law enforcement officials say then allegedly made a menacing call to the FBI special agent investigating his role in the riot,” NBC News reports.

“Barry Bennett Ramey, who officials say was affiliated with the Proud Boys, was arrested in Florida on Thursday.”

South Carolina’s highest court on Wednesday issued a temporary stay blocking the state from carrying out what was set to be its first-ever firing squad execution, the AP reports.

“A California man who stormed the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection was arrested after his Uber driver tipped off the FBI,” Axios reports.

“Jerry Daniel Braun allegedly told the Uber driver during a trip to his hotel on Jan. 6, 2021 that he tore down a barricade at the Capitol. The encounter was recorded by the driver’s dashboard-mounted camera; the footage ultimately allowed the FBI to track him down.”