An alleged Capitol rioter on the FBI's Most Wanted List has fled to the eastern European country of Belarus, where he is being portrayed on state-run media as a 'simple American' fleeing 'political persecution.'
Evan Neumann, 48, was charged in July on six separate criminal charges, including violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, as well as for assaulting, resisting and obstructing law enforcement at the Capitol insurrection on January 6.
But shortly after the charges were filed, Neumann sold his house in California's Bay Area, traveled around the country, and eventually fled to Ukraine and then Belarus.
He reportedly had to dodge wild hogs, snakes and even the Ukrainian secret service on his way.
The FBI lists him as a 'defendant at large.'
Evan Neumann, 48, appeared on Belarus 1 on Sunday for a sit-down interview for a segment entitled Goodbye, America
He spoke to a reporter about how he fled the United States as he faced six charges for his alleged involvement in the January 6 riots
According to an indictment against Neumann, the FBI received body-worn camera footage from the Metropolitan Police Department that shows him assaulting an officer at the Capitol riot on January 6.
The riot began when a group of Stop The Steal protesters marched on the Capitol in an effort to prevent Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The rioters apparently organized to meet at the Save America rally, protesting the results of the 2020 presidential election as former President Donald Trump claimed there was election fraud, and began descending on Congress shortly after 1pm.
At around 1.37pm, the indictment against Neumann states, he was seen wearing a red 'Make America Great Again' hat, an orange and yellow scarf, a dark-colored Dakine backpack with a red logo, a black coat and blue jeans, with a gas mask and a red mouthpiece around his neck.
He was standing by the barricades Metropolitan Police put up around the Capitol when he started to berate the police at the scene, speaking directly to them as he said they are 'defending the people who are going to kill your f****** children.
'They are going to kill your f****** children, they are gonna rape them, they are gonna imprison them, and you're defending the people that are going to do this to your children,' he says, according to the indictment.
His claims seemed to echo those from the widespread QAnon conspiracy theory movement, which holds that Trump is waging a secret war against a global cabal of elite Satan worshipping pedophiles in government, business and the media.
Its followers believe Trump will expose the pedophiles, order its members be arrested and sentenced to death.
At the riot, the indictment alleges, Neumann refused orders to move away from the metal barricades, telling the officers: 'No, you can't tell me what to do, you piece of s***.'
He later allegedly berates one of the officers, only identified as 'J.M,' saying that officers 'kneel to Antifa because they're little b******,' and threatens J.M. that the officers will be 'overrun' by the crowd, telling him: 'I'm willing to die, are you.'
As the crowd around him became more aggressive in their push to enter the Capitol, it is alleged, he tried to shove the barricade into J.M. and push it into the line of officers.
Eventually, he allegedly punches J.M., and the crowd succeeds in breaking down the barrier.
J.M. then tried to wrestle the metal barricade out of Neumann's hands, the indictment states, but Neumann used it as a battering ram, lifted it off the ground and used it to strike the officer.
The FBI obtained body-worn camera footage showing Neumann pushing a metal barricade into Metropolitan police officers at the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol
He was seen wearing a red Make America Great Again hat, a black jacket, a dark-colored backpack as well as a
