Man with ties to Western Pa. arrested in connection with Capitol attack

A man who operates a woodworking business in Bentleyville is charged with entering the U.S. Senate floor and reading documents removed from desks there during the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.

Dale “DJ” Shalvey, 36, was charged by criminal complaint on Feb. 12 in the District of Columbia. The case remained sealed until Tuesday, when he self-surrendered in Washington, D.C.

Witnesses told the FBI that they knew Shalvey to be from the Wheeling, W.Va. area, but his driver’s license is listed as having a Bentleyville address, officials said.

Shalvey is charged with obstructing an official proceeding, entering a restricted building, disrupting business, entering the Senate floor without authorization to disrupt official business and demonstrating in the Capitol building.

The FBI Pittsburgh division received multiple tips on Jan. 18 identifying him as being at the Capitol and inside the Senate chamber the day of the riot, according to a criminal complaint.

One person told agents that they communicated with Shalvey directly via their cellphone that day, and Shalvey appeared to be filming from inside the Capitol building.

In two videos Shalvey sent, he filmed the inside of the Capitol and Senate floor and panned the camera so his face is visible, the FBI said.

In those images, he is wearing tactical, Army-green clothing, a helmet and gear.

In one of the videos, Shalvey can be heard shouting “[expletive] yeah!” as he goes through the hallway, the FBI said.

Shalvey also sent pictures “that appear to depict official correspondence that was handled by Shalvey from at least one of the desks in the Senate chamber.”

An unidentified person in the complaint told the FBI they went to high school with Shalvey and that they could identify his voice in the video when Shalvey said something like, “Ted Cruz ‘was going to sell us out all along’ after reviewing papers on a Senate desk.”

In publicly posted videos, a man matching Shalvey’s description can be seen holding documents from one of the Senate desks, the FBI said.

“More specifically, the individual read from a document that indicated Sen. Ted Cruz objected to the certification of the electoral votes of the State of Arizona,” the FBI said.

“Upon reading this information the individual in green stated, ‘He was going to sell us out all along,’ ” the FBI wrote. “Another unidentified co-conspirator then stated, ‘No, that’s a good thing. That’s a good thing.’ The individual in green responded that he was ‘mixed up’ and appeared to acknowledge his mistake.”

That scene is in a video taken by journalist Luke Mogelson for The New Yorker magazine and published on Jan. 17; it appears around the 5-minute mark.

The website for Shalvey Woodworks, based in Bentleyville, said “a farmer and woodworker at heart, DJ prefers to be healing land, tending to livestock, and when winter comes, creating in his studio woodshop.”