By FactsWow Team
Posted on: 19 Jun, 2022
An arrest was made of staffers from “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” including Robert Smigel. The arrest was made on behalf of unlawful entry at the U.S Capitol. It has been found that officers witnessed seven individuals in the 6th-floor hallway with Congressional ID. a statement made by U.S capitol police The building was closed to the public, and these people were found to be part of a group that had been directed to leave earlier in the day by the USCP.
According to reports, the arrested were taken out of a committee meeting on Jan. 6 for not having sufficient press credentials earlier in the day. The same group was discovered in the Capitol complex after it had been closed to the public on Thursday. Smigel, Jake Plunkett, Allison Martinez, Tyrone Dean, Stephen Romond, Nicoletta Green, Brendan Hurley, Josh Comers, and David Feldman were among those arrested, according to Fox News, citing an alleged senior House source.
The explanation for the disparity between the seven people mentioned by the cops and the nine people mentioned in the Fox News article is unknown. The crew was photographing and filming around the offices of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, and Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican. The suspects were apprehended near Boebert's office and freed the next day.
The Associated Press received a list of nine people who had been stopped by Capitol Police from another source familiar with the situation. They featured various producers and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog's voice actor, Robert Smigel. interviews at the Capitol were approved and scheduled in advance by the members' congressional staffers. The production team waited in the halls after leaving the members' offices for their final interview of the day to record stand-ups and other final comedic elements when Capitol Police detained them.
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