FBI agents arrested Florida Proud Boy Barry Bennett Ramey on Thursday, hitting him with an array of felony charges related to his assault on cops during the Capitol riot, NBC News reports. The arrest comes a day after Ryan Nougaret, the FBI agent in charge of investigating Ramey, filed an affidavit to the court describing Ramey’s attempts to intimidate him earlier this month (Nougaret refers to himself as “Your affiant” in the affidavit, which makes it a little stilted, but nevertheless):
“On February 11, 2022, your affiant left his business card with a close associate of RAMEY during an attempted interview. Your affiant’s business card contained your affiant’s work cell phone number and identified him as an FBI Special Agent. Subsequent to the attempted interview, on February 12, 2022, your affiant received a phone call from an individual who claimed to be RAMEY’s attorney and who said that RAMEY contacted him because RAMEY had been informed that the FBI was asking about him. On April 8, 2022, your affiant received a phone call on his work cell phone from telephone number 1-305-317-4040. When your affiant answered the call, your affiant recognized the voice of the male individual on the phone as consistent with the voice of BARRY BENNETT RAMEY. Your affiant had recently listened to RAMEY speak at length on a YouTube video.”
“‘Is this Mr. Nougaret? And you still live at [your affiant’s home address].’ Your affiant replied, ‘Who is this?’ The caller then immediately terminated the phone call. Shortly thereafter, your affiant received a text message from the same number (1-305-317-4040) which included the VIN number for a vehicle previously owned by your affiant without any other text. Your affiant replied via text message, ‘????’ Your affiant then received the following text message from the same number, ‘Check that VIN number.;)’. FBI Miami ran telephone number 1-305-317-4040 to determine the carrier and the number came back to Onvoy, LLC d/b/a Inteliquent. Inteliquent and its subsidiaries primarily provide wholesale telecommunications services to other telecommunications carriers, re-sellers and service providers,” wrote Nougaret before going into the details of the VOIP service and how Ramey used it to mask his number. Ramey has been hit with additional felony charges for the intimidation attempt. This one’s pretty high up on the list of best Capitol riot arrests.