A Nevada man accused of crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol was arrested last week after his family was found living in an unheated travel trailer on the outskirts of Reno, the Justice Department said.
Josiah Kenyon, 34, is suspected of being the rioter who dressed up as Jack Skellington from the movie “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and wielded what appeared to be a table leg with a protruding nail during the Jan. 6 invasion.
According to Reno TV station KOLO, his arrest Dec. 1 came about after Washoe County sheriff’s deputies on a homeless outreach project approached a woman and two children in an off-the-grid trailer at Peavine Mountain, a rugged area in the national forest a few miles northwest of Reno. She was reluctant to speak to them.
During the encounter, a man drove up in a car and told the deputies the family would be moving on. The deputies left but ran a check on the license plate and found out he was the Winnemucca man wanted for Capitol crimes.
The family — in a battered and hand-painted Ford Crown Victoria pulling the trailer — was stopped on North Virginia Street as they drove away from Peavine Mountain. The car had strapped to its roof what appeared to be a large gas tank, also painted in green camouflage.
Kenyon appeared in court Friday, Dec. 3, in Reno to face charges including engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds; civil disorder; and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers with a dangerous weapon.
He and his wife also face child endangerment charges.
KOLO reported that the two children “spoke in the same sovereign citizen, anti-government rhetoric as their parents.”
The arrest warrant issued Nov. 23 for Kenyon detailed how federal investigators identified him by determining the debit account associated with a fare card that was used during the times “Jack Skellington” — also tagged as #pinstripeboilersuit — was seen on surveillance images in Washington, D.C., Metro stations.
The complaint alleges that in addition to assaulting Capitol officers with the table leg, he threw items at them and attempted to break a window with a flag pole.
Peavine Mountain, an area northwest of Reno that is popular with off-road vehicle riders and drivers.
