HELMETTA, N.J. — After two days of trying to find a suspect within the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol who fled as federal brokers approached his house, the FBI on Thursday supplied a $10,000 reward for data resulting in the seize of the New Jersey man.

The company mentioned it and different legislation enforcement businesses are on the lookout for 47-year-old Gregory Yetman. A federal arrest warrant was issued Monday for him.

He is charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding sure officers; obstruction of legislation enforcement throughout civil dysfunction; getting into and remaining in a restricted constructing or grounds; partaking in bodily violence in a restricted constructing or grounds; and committing an act of bodily violence within the Capitol grounds or buildings, in accordance with the FBI.

The FBI was being joined by legislation enforcement officers from state, county and native police.

Helmetta’s mayor, Christopher Slavicek, advised The New York Times the search started at 8 a.m. Wednesday when FBI brokers got here to arrest Yetman, and he “fled and went off into the woods.”

The mayor mentioned there was “certainly a sense of heightened anxiety” in and round Helmetta because the search progressed.

There had been “search helicopters flying at tree height and various law enforcement agencies going up and down the roads,” he mentioned.

“We will be in the area staging until Yetman is arrested,” the FBI’s Newark workplace mentioned in a press release Thursday morning. The FBI has arrange a command operation at the area people heart.

USA Today reported earlier this yr that Yetman, whom it recognized as a former navy police sergeant within the New Jersey National Guard, had been interviewed by the FBI about his participation within the riot, and that he’s suspected of firing pepper spray at protesters and law enforcement officials.

Yetman advised the newspaper he did nothing incorrect on the Capitol, and denies pepper-spraying anybody.

Approximately 1,200 individuals have been charged with Capitol riot-related federal crimes. Over 800 of them have pleaded responsible or been convicted by a jury or decide after a trial. More than 700 of them have been sentenced, with roughly two-thirds receiving phrases of imprisonment starting from three days to 22 years.