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Utah man charged with assaulting officer during Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot looks set to plead guilty

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Nate Carlisle joined FOX 13 in October 2020 as an investigative producer and reporter. He spent the previous 15 years as a reporter at The Salt Lake Tribune, covering criminal justice, polygamy, the military and the finances of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

SALT LAKE CITY — Prosecutors have filed documents suggesting a man from Payson, accused of lunging at police with a stun gun during the U.S. Capitol riots, will plead guilty to a felony.

Zach Rash, 24, had been charged with seven counts related to the insurrection. The new document filed by federal prosecutors lists just one count – assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers. The circumstances described in the count means Rash could be sentenced to up to eight years in prison.On Jan. 6, 2021, video captured Rash taking a stun gun from another rioter and, according to prosecutors, lunging at police officers.

“Rash acknowledged holding onto the stun gun for several minutes but advised he ‘dropped it and didn’t want anything to do with it." “In response to further questions about the stun gun, Rash equivocated on whether he assaulted officers with the stun gun in the Tunnel. He stated, ‘I don’t think I used it that day’ but ‘it could have happened.’”

 

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