In an order made public Tuesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said prosecutors refused to answer on the record whether they had complied with the department's updated media policy when seeking a warrant to arrest the talk-show host, Owen Shroyer, for his alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Prosecutors had provided enough evidence to warrant Mr. Shroyer's being put on criminal trial, Judge Faruqui wrote, but they wouldn't lay out their reasons for determining that Mr. Shroyer wasn't a member of the news media.
In an affidavit for the arrest of Mr. Shroyer, who hosts "The War Room With Owen Shroyer," a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent said Mr. Shroyer had spoken about stopping the certification of President Biden's Electoral College win and had entered a restricted area on the west side of the Capitol during the Jan. 6 assault by a mob of supporters of then-President Donald Trump.
The affidavit doesn't describe Mr. Shroyer entering the Capitol itself.
In a video posted after the charges were unsealed, Mr. Shroyer said he was innocent of the charges, had never had any intentions of violence and was at the Capitol as a journalist to cover the events.
Mr. Shroyer has also offered assistance to far-right groups to draw supporters to rallies through Infowars' network of supporters.
"Most of the people out there said that they had either heard about it through Infowars or Infowars listeners," Mr. Shroyer said on the air afterward.
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