A former federal prosecutor who handled January 6 Capitol riot cases has been accused of stabbing a Florida man in a road rage incident outside Tampa this week.
, where he was booked on charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, aggravated assault and armed burglary. Court records show that Scruggs prosecuted some cases involving the Capitol riot on January 6, irking at least one suspect, who took his complaints to X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter.
"My crimes were so egregious that he demanded I wear an ankle monitor, be drug tested at random, surrender my passports, be restricted to middle district of Florida, and given a nightly curfew," wrote "This was a chaotic situation involving multiple crashes caused by only one person on one of our area’s busiest bridges," he said."That person was not Mr. Scruggs. There is much more to this incident than what is being reported, and we are diligently working to bring to light the full facts of what occurred.""He has no prior criminal history and has spent nearly his entire career protecting the people of this country," he said.
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