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A member of the Proud Boys has disappeared ahead of his sentencing on charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according to an arrest warrant unsealed on Friday.

Christopher Worrell was convicted earlier this year on seven counts related to his conduct during the insurrection, including assaulting a group of Capitol Police officers with pepper spray and lying to investigators.

He was set to be sentenced on Friday, with prosecutors seeking 14 years in prison. However, a bench warrant was issued for his arrest on Tuesday, and his sentencing hearing was cancelled on Wednesday, court records show.

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[–] AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social 100 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Disappears huh? What a friendly word.

[–] TheWoozy@lemmy.world 87 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Would you prefer "jumps bail", 'skips town", "runs and hides", "flees justice", or "goes on the lam"?

[–] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Suspected Proud boys leader, loses pride to face suspected charges of storming the capital. As fears mounted that he might actually go to prison.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, yes. Usually saying someone "disappeared" when referring to someone arrested for a political crime implies they were "dealt with".

[–] tastysnacks@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They don’t disappear, they fall out a window or get suicided in the back of the head twice. What kind of message does “disappeared” send?

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago

You never heard of someone getting "disappeared"? When someone "disappears" it's not because they ran off, it's because someone took them.

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The message is usually "this guy was causing headaches and now he's not, so stop asking questions"

[–] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

Bravely runs away away?

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[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Calling it now: he dies in a gunfight with the feds.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now now. He could die a grisly death due to exposure or wild animal attack when he attempts to go off grid to hide.

[–] Vaggumon@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Think of that poor animal eating that bag of shit though! Poor thing would get sick for sure.

[–] Clent@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, typically if an animal kills a human it has to euthanized.

Hoping it's exposure with a few curious nibbles.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think he'll surface in Saint Petersburg alongside Steven Seagal. It will be a test run for extracting you-know-who when the time comes.

[–] TheWoozy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Isn't that where America's greatest patriots end up? /s

Only the most patriotic senators spent the 4th of July in Moscow in 2018.

[–] cedarmesa@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Good riddance to bad rubbish. Build a public restroom on the remains.

[–] Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Smart money's on "found auto-asphyxiated" if the GOP playbook is any indication

[–] milkjug@lemmy.wildfyre.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Cause of death : Deceased shot himself twice behind the head with a silenced weapon after accidentally falling out of 17th floor window.

[–] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, he kills himself with some privileged sob martyr story.

[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Just like that terrorist Ashii Babbit

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

He's an immigrant in Mexico by now

[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have zero doubt that a fellow Proud Boy working in law enforcement or some other government department helped him escape.

There are a terrifying number of these clowns working within government as well as in the military and law enforcement and it seems like little is being done to weed them out.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Worse, they've been willfully infiltrating those jobs and recruiting within them. There needs to be nationwide police reform; the days where state-level policies and regulation was good enough are long past. Same for schools, healthcare, and insurance.

[–] CapgrasDelusion@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago

Worrell had been on house arrest in Florida since November 2021.

Well, apparently not. Good call with the "house arrest" there fellas.

[–] rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not very proud now, is he?

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Bravely ran away!

Womp womp wooommp ~

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A cowardly conservative among the ranks of the (R)acists? Say it ain’t so!

[–] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welp, he's going to spend even longer in prison now. What a dolt.

[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

It's almost like he is a cowardly piece of shit. Weird.

[–] gameboyhomeboy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

They should be treating these terrorists like we treated members of ISIS, etc. Terrorists shouldn't have the option of fleeing because they should be imprisoned ahead of the trial for this exact reason.

[–] Szymon@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this the guy that was shoving dildos up his ass to prove he wasn't gay?

I guess it's a trick question, it's all the Proud Boys who do that.

[–] Fisk400@feddit.nu 2 points 1 year ago

That's Gavin something. He is the founder but I don't think he is involved in the proud boys enough anymore to catch proper charges. He is either too Nazi or not Nazi enough for the current organization, I am not sure which.

[–] ScrollinMyDayAway@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

This is why you don't handle TRAITORS with kid gloves and give them house arrest.

[–] HellAwaits@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Party of law and order, peeps.

Don't take the piss, instead find the fucker and turn him in.

[–] Rapidcreek@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The proud boys are being sentenced to some heavy time. The United States Marshals Service will scoop him up,

[–] theodewere@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

tonight he is Chicken Boy on the run..

run little chicken

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jonne@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

I'm sure they'll have the same zeal as they had when they went after Reinoehl...

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

"Belarus or Bust!"- MAGAmutant.

[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Wanted poster. Maybe because I'm not in the US, but the article had no photos for me https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/additional/christopher-john-worrell/@@download.pdf

That dude is gonna end starting a world war.