Federal authorities arrested a suspect in the U.S. capitol riot in Harrodsburg, Kentucky on Tuesday after they used facial recognition technology to find an image of him on his girlfriend's Instagram page. Chase Randolph, federal authorities say, "knocked over a U.S. Capitol Police officer manning the barriers at the building, causing [Officer-1] 's head to hit the stairs behind her resulting in a loss of consciousness. He then continued to assault two other USCP officers by physically pushing, shoving, grabbing, and generally resisting the officers and interfering with their official duties," federal officials said. The FBI released images of Randolph in late January, designating him as #168-AFO because he was wanted for assault on federal officers.
At some point, the FBI ran an image of Randolph through an “open source facial comparison tool” that had been “known to provide reliable results in the past.” “The facial recognition tool yielded results associated with the Instagram page of an individual ( “Individual-1 ″) from Kentucky who appeared to be the girlfriend of the SUBJECT,” an FBI special agent wrote in an affidavit. “Individual-1′s Instagram account also contains a photograph of the SUBJECT wearing the same gray toboggan that was seen in videos at the Capitol. The FBI then found Randolph's Facebook page through his girlfriend's Facebook account. On April 13, federal authorities said, two FBI special agents went undercover at Randolph’s workplace and talked to him about the Capitol riot. He was arrested one week after the FBI’s undercover visit.
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