PORTLAND, Oregon — A Yacolt, Washington, man pleaded guilty to a felony charge of civil disorder for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. 36-year-old Benjamin Silva will be sentenced on Sept. 17, 2024.
Video footage showed Silva with a crowd of rioters confronting police on Jan. 6, 2021. Prosecutors claim Silva joined others in forcefully pushing against a police line near an entrance on the Lower West Terrace of the Capitol building, also known as "the tunnel."
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Some of the most violent attacks against police on Jan. 6 occurred at the tunnel. Court documents say that even when rioters were leaving the Lower West Terrace of the Capitol, Silva fought to stay and press forward against police.
Silva was arrested in Oregon during July of 2023.
In the 38 months since Jan. 6, 2021, more than 1,358 individuals have been charged for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol, including nearly a dozen defendants from Oregon and Southwest Washington.