Crime & Safety
Buford Man Accused in Insurrection Bonds Out, Gets House Arrest
A 49-year-old Buford man who the FBI says was part of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was released Friday on an unsecured bond.
GWINNETT COUNTY, GA — A Buford man who authorities say took part in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was released on an unsecured bond Friday, to remain on house arrest except when working.
He can stay out of jail for now as long as he stays home, wears a GPS ankle monitor … and stops smoking pot.
Verden Andrew Nalley, 49, was arrested earlier this week by the FBI. His co-defendant, Americus attorney William McCall Calhoun Jr., was jailed without bond in Washington after a judge saw his angry social-media posts.
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Ironically, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Calhoun wrote in one of those posts that Nalley was with him during “hand to hand hostile takeover.”
“My buddy Andy Nalley and I were in the first two hundred to rush up the steps and inside after the Vanguard had clashed hard with the police and made them retreat,” Calhoun wrote, as reported by the Atlanta newspaper.
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“I get what happened in D.C. It’s all over the news,” Nalley’s public defender Thomas Hawker said to U.S. Judge Christopher Bly. “But I don’t know that it deserves incarceration for this guy.”
Hawker also told Bly that Nalley smoked marijuana daily. In fact, Nalley had pot on him when he met FBI agents to negotiate own his arrest.
“He brought marijuana with him to his meeting with the FBI?” Bly asked, incredulous.
According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the judge wanted to be absolutely sure Nalley understood that failing a drug test while awaiting trial would land him in jail. He then allowed Nalley to sign an unsecured $10,000 bond, no collateral required. However, Nalley would have to pay up if he didn’t show for his court dates.
Nalley is one of several Georgians who authorities say invaded the U.S. Capitol building in January. Bruno Cua, an 18-year-old from Milton; and Lisa Marie Eisenhart of Woodstock, mother of Eric Munchel, the “zip tie guy”; are being held without bond. Michael Daughtry of Pelham was released on bond in January.
Read the story in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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