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Federal authorities have charged a Toms River man with unlawfully entering the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 after matching him to the jacket he wore that day. The jacket – captured in footage from Jan. 6 – bore the markings of, “Coppotelli Heavy Equipment Sales & Services, Inc.” in Toms River, and had a 732 phone number as well, an FBI agent wrote in a court document. Robert Coppotelli lives at the same address of the company. The FBI later spoke to a person who knows Coppotelli, who identified him as the person in the footage and pictures, the FBI alleges. Coppotelli faces four charges that a…

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