A Missouri man, Kyler Joseph Bard, facing his reckoning with the law, has owned up to charges of storming the Capitol and assaulting a police officer during the Jan. 6 insurrection. Bard, 27, from Seneca, Missouri, has pleaded guilty to a slew of crimes including two felonies for his part in the chaos that upended a joint session of the U.S. Congress meant to certify the 2020 presidential election results, as per a U.S. Attorney's Office.

The felonies Bard admitted to comprise assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and civil disorder. Moreover, he's accepted guilt for four misdemeanors that encompass unlawfully entering or remaining in a restricted building and engaging in violence there. While Bard's sentence is not set until Nov. 1, the acts he has confessed to have been clear-cut to authorities since he was first identified as BOLO AFO #447 among the insurgents.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office documents, Bard's aggression peaked around 3:30 p.m. on Jan. 6, when he advanced onto a ledge at the Capitol, bullhorn in hand, shouting for the mob to push against the line of officers. "Move! Move! Move! We gotta push! We gotta push! Let’s go! We gotta go! Let’s go!" he bellowed, before shoving an officer and, after falling, hurling insults at the law enforcement present.

The investigation that led to Bard's arrest was a cooperative effort, with the FBI's Kansas City and Washington Field Offices playing a pivotal role, alongside U.S. Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department. The case, which falls under the jurisdiction of the DOJ's Counterterrorism Section, is but one part of a larger inquiry that has seen over 1,424 individuals charged from nearly every state. Indeed, more than 500 of them have been charged with felonies for assaulting or impeding law enforcement in the fallout from that January day, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.