Jay Johnston, actor popular for playing Jimmy Pesto in the American sitcom Bob’s Burgers, has been arrested and charged in California in connection to the January 6 Capitol attack.

The actor faces charges of felony obstruction of officers during civil disorder and several misdemeanor offenses, according to court documents. A federal magistrate judge agreed to free the 54-year-old on a $25,000 bond.

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Video footage from the Capitol attack on Jan 6, 2021 showed Johnston pushing against police and helping other rioters in a tunnel on the Lower West Terrace, according to an FBI agent’s affidavit. He also had a stolen police shield on his head.

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The actor “was close to the entrance to the tunnel, turned back and signaled for other rioters to come towards the entrance”, the agent wrote, as per The Guardian.

The Daily Beast in December 2021 reported that Johnston had been banned from Bob’s Burgers. He voiced the character of Jimmy Pesto Sr.

As per NBC, an attorney representing the actor contacted the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center on March 8, 2021. Three of his associates told the agency that the January 6 photos depicted Johnston. More than 1000 people have been arrested in connection with the Capitol attack.

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“The news has presented it as an attack. It actually wasn’t. Thought it kind of turned into that. It was a mess. Got maced and tear gassed and I found it quite fantastic,” Johnston wrote, according to the FBI.

“I’ll never forget the morning the first photos of him there popped up and how we all collectively transitioned from “Haha that guy looks like Jay Johnston” to “Wait is that actually Jay Johnston?” a Twitter user reacted.

“I used to be SUCH a huge fan of Jay Johnston. He was one of my favorites on Mr. Show, a towering rag doll of a man whose style of performance owed just as much to old-school vaudeville slapstick as 90s post-modern irony,” another one added.