Steven Cappuccio biography: 13 things about US Capitol rioter from Universal City, Texas

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Steven Phillip Cappuccio is an American man from Texas, United States. Here are 13 more things about him:

  1. He is a resident of Universal City, Bexar County, Texas. (a)(b)(c)
  2. Aside from Universal City, he has lived in other parts of Texas including San Antonio and Fort Hood. (c)
  3. He has lived in different parts of North Carolina, USA including Cameron and Fort Bragg. (c)
  4. He previously lived in Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) in Anchorage, Alaska, USA. (c)
  5. He is a U.S. Army veteran and a Bradley Fighting Vehicle commander who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. (d)
  6. On January 6, 2021, he went to the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., USA. That day, Donald Trump supporters breached the building while a joint session of Congress was certifying the vote of the Electoral College and affirming Joe Biden‘s victory in the 2020 presidential election. During the riot, he was caught on camera grabbing Metropolitan Police Department officer Daniel Hodges‘ mask and yanking on it. (a)(b)(e)
  7. On August 4, 2021, a judge signed an arrest warrant for him and his fellow suspected U.S. Capitol rioters Patrick E. McCaughey III, Tristan Chandler Stevens, David Lee Judd, Christopher Joseph Quaglin, Robert Morss, Geoffrey Williams Sills, David Mehaffie and Federico Guillermo Klein. (e)
  8. On August 10, 2021, he was arrested. For his participation in the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, he was charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers, aiding and abetting; inflicting bodily injury on certain officers; robbery; assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon; obstruction of an official proceeding; civil disorder; disorderly and disruptive conduct on restricted grounds with a dangerous weapon; engaging in physical violence in restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon; disorderly conduct in a U.S. Capitol building and act of physical violence in the U.S. Capitol grounds or buildings. (a)(b)(e)
  9. On August 11, 2021, he made his initial court appearance virtually before U.S. Magistrate Judge Henry Bemporad in a federal courtroom in San Antonio. He was released on global positioning system (GPS) monitoring and an unsecured $50,000 bond. (b)(e)(f)
  10. In December 2021, he and Klein were charged in a superseding indictment along with seven other co-defendants. (g)
  11. On July 20, 2023, he was convicted of assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers and aiding and abetting; assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon; robbery and aiding and abetting; civil disorder; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon; and act of physical violence in the U.S. Capitol grounds or building. (g)
  12. On November 3, 2023, U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden sentenced him to 85 months in prison and 24 months of supervised release. (h)
  13. He was 54 was years old when he was sentenced on November 3, 2023 to to 85 months in prison and 24 months of supervised release. (h)  
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Steven Phillip Cappuccio
Steven Phillip Cappuccio
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If you have information about someone who participated in the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, call 1-800-CALL-FBI. You may also submit relevant photos and videos to the FBI.

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