Four men from Monroe County and the Slate Belt area, including retired NASCAR race driver Tighe Scott, are the latest people to be charged in the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

Scott, 75, of Pen Argyl, his son, Jarrett Scott of Saylorsburg, 48, Scott Slater Sr., 56, and Scott Slater Jr., 26, were charged this week in the office of U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui.

In an affidavit of probable cause, accompanied by approximately 60 photographs, police were able to obtain from video surveillance, the four men are charged with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority to do so; knowingly, and with intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of government business or official functions, engaging in disorderly or disruptive conduct in, or within such proximity to, any restricted building or grounds when, or so that, such conduct, in fact, impedes or disrupts the orderly conduct of government business or official functions; or attempts or conspires to do so.

Additionally, they face charges of engaging in physical acts of violence against any person or property in any restricted building or grounds, where the president or other person protected by the Secret Service; willfully and knowingly uttering loud, threatening or abusive language, or engaging in disorderly or disruptive conduct at any place in the grounds or in any of the Capitol buildings with the intent to impede, disrupt, or disturb the orderly conduct of a session of Congress or either House of Congress; and forcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding, intimidating or interfering with any person while engaged in or on account of the performance of official duties, where such acts involve physical contact with the victim or the intent to commit another felony.

Scott Slater Jr. is also charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or inflicting bodily injury.

The affidavit of probable cause was filed by an undisclosed task force officer assigned to the Scranton Resident Agency, Philadelphia Division, of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, who detailed the insurrection that happened not long after the 1:30 p.m. convention of the joint session between members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate for the purpose of certifying the Nov. 2, 2020 election won by now President Joseph R. Biden.

The document notes that about 2 p.m. the crowd that included the Scotts and Slaters forced entry into the Capitol, including by breaking windows and by assaulting members of the U.S. Capitol Police, as others in the crowd encouraged and assisted those acts.

According to court documents, the younger Slater picked up a flagpole and threw it toward the line of officers, striking one of the officers.

A few seconds later, court papers say he picked up an “Area Closed” sign, and threw that sign at the line of officers.

The FBI interviewed Slater Jr. by telephone and he confirmed that he was at the United States Capitol Building that day with his father. He said he and his father were on the steps of the Capitol when some “shoving” occurred.

An agent asked what Slater Jr. meant by “shoving,” and “he responded that he and his father pushed and were pushed by officers on the Capitol steps.”

Slater Jr. confirmed he was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and had a flag wrapped around his body while on the steps of the Capitol.

Police said during national news coverage shows the four men who officials said entered restricted grounds and physically engaged with police officers attempting to secure them.

The affidavit alleges the men engaged in physical and verbal violence, including using obscene language, pushing and striking officers, raising a golf club at one, and throwing signs that marked the area “closed” and a flagpole.

In each of the allegations, police have provided screenshots that document the violations.

Police said they were aided in their investigation by a tip they received in March 2022 by a person who was able to identify one of the defendants.

The latest arrests are among 1,400 that have been made, including 100 from Pennsylvania, since the FBI began its investigation into the riot.