WASHINGTON - Federal law enforcement officials on Thursday arrested a man in Washington they call a “ringleader” in the recent attempt to destroy the Andrew Jackson statue in Lafayette Square near the White House.RELATED: Trump calls for arrests, prison time for vandals targeting monuments: 'There will be no exceptions!'Law enforcement sources tell Fox News that Jason Charter was arrested at his residence Thursday morning, without incident, and charged with destruction of federal property.
These sources add that Charter has connections to Antifa and was in a leadership role on the night of June 22 when a large group of protesters tried to pull down the statue in Washington, D.C.“They were very organized,” a federal law enforcement official.