A guy accused of destroying media outlets and violating the U. S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was detained by the federal government in Austin this week, the Justice Department announced.
Zvonimir Joseph Jurlina arrested on Monday and charged with destruction of property under special maritime and territorial jurisdiction and complicity, as well as physical violence for reasons, the Justice Ministry said.
Authorities did not state in Jurlina’s arrest affidavit where he was arrested in Austin or why he was in town, as he was linked to two addresses in New York.
Jurlina is one of dozens of people arrested in Texas in connection with the uprising. The developing list of suspects includes at least 41 Texa.
The FBI used a public video that Jurlina uploaded to YouTube at the Jan. 6 uprising on Capitol Hill.
At approximately 4:50 p. m. On January 6, a crowd headed to an outdoor media collection domain in the northeast corner of the U. S. Capitol. U. S. The domain of the gathering on the Capitol grounds, according to the affidavit.
People in the crowd began destroying media material, adding cameras, tripods, lights, blinds and remote transmission tools. Several media outlets, adding overseas-based organizations, were included in the attack.
The affidavit states that Jurlina kicked and trampled on media objects, helped remove objects in soft flames and incited acts of violence that caused members of the media to leave the area.
He also, according to the affidavit, encouraged others to take away the pieces left through the media. He was carrying an orange wireless microphone as a souvenir, the affidavit says.
Jurlina livestreamed the insurgency in a series of 12-part videos on a “Zykotik” YouTube channel.
The Zykotik channel remains public, but insurgency-like videos no longer appear online. Police downloaded some of the videos before they were removed from the channel.
In addition, many videos have been uploaded to a separate YouTube channel, “Sunlight 161,” which is to preserve the media from the insurgency, the affidavit says.
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In one video, Jurlina claps as other people trample on a camera connected to a tripod, the affidavit says.
“Hey, I guess we deserve to loot now, right? It’s an expensive team. I think maybe I deserve to take it and move it to a pawn shop,” Jurlina says later in the same video.
Four minutes after the start of the video, Jurlina turns the camera on himself and can be seen holding a microphone with a more sensitive orange bearing the logo of ZDF, a television station founded in Germany.
“It’s the journalist Zykotik who comes to see you live. We are, haha. It’s the genuine media network. We have taken over. It’s (excellent) America first. That’s how we do it,” he says in the video. , to the affidavit.
In a video posted on Twitter, Jurlina can be seen kicking a media team.
Another video posted on Zykotik’s YouTube channel, Jurlina, talks about her memory.
“I already have the microphone. The microphone is enough,” Jurlina said.
Then the guy says a user has a camera.
“Oh, do you have a camera?Full? He was probably the guy I told . . . I thought, ‘I . . . we just take that. It’s pretty dear (improperio)’. I bet this guy said, ‘yes,’ It was like . . . how much do you think?Maybe I like (improperio) $5,000 or something,” Jurlina says, according to the affidavit.
Authorities used subscriber recordings, adding an email and IP address from YouTube and phone recordings from AT
Jurlina also has a mole on the right side of her face, under the corner of her mouth, which used to fit her photo with the guy seen in photographs of the insurrection.