The FBI has arrested a suspect accused of placing pipe bombs in Washington, D.C., just hours before riots broke out at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The nearly 5-year-old case has vexed law enforcement and spawned numerous conspiracy theories as officials failed to zero in on a suspect.

Law enforcement officials told the Associated Press on Thursday that a suspect had finally been arrested. The suspect was described as a man, with the arrest made in Virginia, though no further details were immediately available.

Nobody was hurt by the bombs, which were placed near the Democratic and Republican national committees. But both devices could have been deadly if authorities had not been able to disarm them in time, according to the FBI.

Some MAGA supporters have become fixated on the case

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