Who are the Western Pa. residents charged in Capitol insurrection?

In some ways, the people from Western Pennsylvania who were arrested in the Capitol riot match the findings of national studies conducted by the Chicago Project on Security and Threats.

Most of them are employed, and several own their own businesses — including a couple who owns a contracting company and a man who has a business as a wood worker. And most of them are older than 35.

But the studies also showed the majority of people arrested nationally came from counties Joe Biden won in the election, and from counties that had a declining white population.

For the people arrested in Pennsylvania’s Western District, which includes 25 counties from Erie to West Virginia, that’s not the case.

Of the 11 arrests, six come from rural areas outside of Pittsburgh, and three more have ties to Lawrence and Washington counties.

Those arrested in the Western District of Pennsylvania include:

Jorden Mink, 27, of South Fayette, is accused of using a baseball bat to break windows in the Capitol building, wielding a flagpole at police officers and spitting on them. Investigators were able to identify him because of an extensive neck tattoo and another under his left eye. He faces six counts and is being held in detention pending trial.

Russell Peterson, 34, of Rochester, Beaver County, traveled to the Capitol with his wife and mother for the Trump rally on Jan. 6. Investigators said Peterson, who had been unemployed for a year, used his Facebook account to stream live videos from inside the Capitol, including from the Crypt, an area below the rotunda, twice that afternoon. He is free on bond.

Peter Schwartz, 47, of Kentucky, was living in Uniontown, Fayette County, when he was arrested. He is accused of spraying officers with mace during the riot and faces 14 counts. Police said a YouTube video posted from the afternoon of the riot showed Schwartz, who was wearing a distinctive shirt or jacket, extending his arm and spraying an orange substance directly at officers. Later in the video, he is seen carrying a wooden baton, investigators said. From a social media post on Jan. 7, police said that Schwartz, a traveling welder, wrote, “All the violence from the left was terrorism. What happened yesterday was the opening of a war. I was there and whether people will acknowledge it or not we are now at war. It would be wise to be ready!” He is in detention pending trial.

Rachel Powell, 41, of Sandy Lake, Mercer County, became known as the “Pink Hat Lady,” after video showed her at the Capitol riot. She is accused of using a pipe like a battering ram to break a window in the Capitol and then using a bullhorn to rally the people around her. The mother of eight children, Powell dropped her kids off on Jan. 30 with her ex-husband and left, saying she needed “to take care of things.” He didn’t hear from her again until Feb. 4, the day she turned herself in. During a search of Powell’s home, investigators found what they characterized as “go bags,” that had ammunition, rope, duct tape, lighters, throwing stars and knives. Powell, who faces eight counts, was released on house arrest. She has since gotten a job at a Franklin book store.

Kenneth Grayson, 52, of Bridgeville, livestreamed himself from inside the Capitol Rotunda and the Crypt beneath it during the riot. The FBI received tips and was then able to identify Grayson, who was wearing a QAnon sweatshirt and black Pittsburgh Pirates baseball cap. He told investigators that if he could do it over again, he would. In addition, an FBI agent testified at a detention hearing that Grayson wrote about violence on Facebook and sent messages on his cellphone that he felt the need to kill people, including President Biden. He faces five counts and was released on bond pending trial.

Jennifer Heinl, 43, of Ross, is charged with illegally entering the Capitol building and can be seen in video footage from security and police body cameras inside the Rotunda with Grayson. Investigators said Heinl lied about not having been in touch with him, and said when they interviewed her about Grayson, she claimed that she did not enter the Capitol. She is charged with four counts and was released on bond pending trial.

Dale Shalvey, 36, who previously operated a woodworking business in Bentleyville, Washington County, is accused of entering the U.S. Senate floor and reading documents removed from desks there. The FBI received multiple tips about Shalvey’s participation, and one person said Shalvey sent two videos in which he was inside the Capitol and on the Senate floor, wearing Army-green tactical clothing and helmet. 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 wood shop.” He is charged with five counts and was released on bond.

Debra Maimone, 27, and Philip Vogel, 33, are charged with kicking a door and stealing protective masks from a police officer’s bag during the riot. The couple, who operate Vera General Contracting and Cleaning Services in McKees Rocks, are engaged. Investigators said that Maimone posted a video, filmed by Vogel inside the Capitol Crypt, on the social media site Parler. “As the camera arrived on Maimone’s face, she removed her distinctive American flag mask and stated, in sum and substance: ‘It’s amazing’ ” the FBI wrote in the criminal complaint. “The unseen Vogel admonished Maimone, stating in sum and substance: ‘Put your make on, I don’t want them to see you.’ ” Maimone can be seen in the Parler video wearing a “God, Guns, Trump” sweatshirt with a green hat, according to the FBI. They were released on bond.

Jeremy Vorous, 43, of Meadville, Crawford County, is accused of illegally entering the Capitol and then posting several images from inside the building on Facebook. In one post with an image of a crowd pressed against a set of doors, he wrote, “Bout to rush in again diff door.” Vorous told FBI agents that “he did not go to commit violence,” but that he followed others into the building. In video footage, investigators said Vorous can be heard calling officers “cowards,” and that he told officers they were “preventing (him) from getting into my house.” In a YouTube video, Vorous yells, “I will be here until we drag these (expletives) out.” On Jan. 10, he called the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center on Jan. 10 and reported that he’d been in the Capitol Building but “absolutely did not participate in rioting or take anything,” the complaint said. He faces four counts and was released pending trial.

Matthew Perna, 36, of Sharon, Mercer County, was seen in a video inside the Capitol wearing a red hoodie with “Make America Great Again” written in white lettering. In a video posted to his Facebook page, Perna and others talk about their experience, in which Perna said, “Steve and I, we walked right into the Capitol building,” the complaint said. Perna told investigators that he’d been at the Trump rally that day and then saw an open door in the Capitol building’s west side. He claimed he was pushed into the building by a crowd that had gathered behind him, the FBI said, and that he was only inside for five to 10 minutes. Perna, who faces four counts, was released on bond pending trial. He earns a living selling CBD products online.