<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. — A New York man has been charged with taking part in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol after a tipster reported overhearing him boasting about it during a dental appointment.</p>
<p>Daniel Warmus — identified in court documents as the owner of a western New York auto shop — was released from custody Wednesday, a day after appearing in federal court in Buffalo on four misdemeanor counts, his attorney said.</p>
<p>The FBI began investigating Warmus after receiving a Jan. 12 tip that, while at a dentist’s office, he described smoking marijuana inside the Capitol and refusing a police officer’s warning to leave. Warmus also played a video he had taken inside the Capitol, which the unidentified tipster heard but did not see, according to a criminal complaint. </p>
<p>“We’re not interested” in commenting, a woman who answered the phone at Warmus’ home in Alden on Wednesday said. </p>
<p>His attorney, Daniel Dubois, said Warmus looks forward to defending himself.</p>
<p>Warmus appears on video walking around inside the U.S. Capitol after a violent mob of former President Donald Trump’s supporters pushed past police officers and broke through windows and doors, according to the complaint, which includes more than a dozen screenshots from video footage taken inside and outside the building.</p>
<p>Wearing a sweatshirt with the phrase, “CNN is fake news” and a Trump 2020 baseball cap, he is seen in one outdoor photo holding a large black flag with an obscenity referring to antifa, the umbrella term for far-left-leaning militant groups that confront or resist neo-Nazis and white supremacists at demonstrations.</p>
<p>The person who reported overhearing Warmus at the dental office supplied his home address and telephone number but did not respond to an FBI agent’s attempts to follow-up, the complaint said. </p>
<p>“Agents therefore do now know what relationship the tipster has with Warmus,” it said.</p>
<p>Warmus owns Worm-a-Fix Automotive in Orchard Park, which continues to operate, according to the complaint. </p>
<p>He is charged with entering a restricted building with intent to disrupt government business and violent entry and disorderly conduct on the grounds of the Capitol.</p>
<p>His next scheduled court appearance is May 24 in Washington.</p>
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<p>Associated Press writer Karen Matthews contributed from New York City. </p>
