‘I am a gray ghost ranger’: Man nicknamed ‘Live Wire’ admits to plotting to interfere with police at Capitol on Jan. 6 after saying ‘it’s time for good men to do bad things’

Daniel Edwin Wilson is seen in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 (images via DOJ court filings).

Daniel Edwin Wilson is seen in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 (images via DOJ court filings).

A Kentucky man who went by the online moniker “Live Wire” with alleged links to a militia group has admitted to planning to interfere with officers during the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol.

Dan Edwin Wilson, 48, of Louisville, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer, the Justice Department said in a press release. Wilson also pleaded guilty to federal firearms charges for being in possession of an unregistered firearm. He was among the thousands of Donald Trump supporters who descended on the Capitol building on Jan. 6 as Congress prepared to certify President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral win.

Prosecutors say that Wilson started planning in the winter of 2020 to go to the Capitol on Jan. 6, the day of certification mandated by the Constitution. Using the encrypted messaging app Telegram, Wilson — who went by the handle “Live Wire” — responded in a group chat about traveling to Washington, D.C.

“Ooh Rah,” he wrote on Dec. 24, according to federal investigators, followed by a statement signaling an apparent willingness to carry out considerable violence: “Curb stomp crew all in!!!”

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