Posted on 01/19/2021 3:42:56 PM PST by L.A.Justice
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Federal authorities arrested a woman whose former romantic partner says she took a laptop from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office during the riot at the U.S. Capitol earlier this month.
Riley June Williams was arrested Monday, according to a Justice Department official. It's not yet known when her initial court appearance will be.
The FBI said in an arrest warrant Sunday that Williams hasn't been charged with theft but only with illegally entering the Capitol and with disorderly conduct.
FBI officials said a caller claiming to be an ex of Williams said friends of hers showed him a video of her taking a laptop computer or hard drive from Pelosi's office.
The caller alleged that she intended to send the device to a friend in Russia who planned to sell it to that country's foreign intelligence service, but that plan fell through and she either has the device or destroyed it. The FBI says the matter remains under investigation.
Pelosi's deputy chief of staff, Drew Hammill, confirmed Jan. 8 that a laptop was taken from a conference room but said "it was a laptop that was only used for presentations."
Williams' mother, who lives with her in Harrisburg, told ITV reporters that her daughter had taken a sudden interest in President Donald Trump's politics and "far-right message boards."
Her father, who lives in Camp Hill, told local law enforcement that he and his daughter went to Washington on the day of the protest but didn't stay together, meeting up later to return to Harrisburg, the FBI said.
Williams' mother told local law enforcement that her daughter packed a bag and left before she was arrested, saying she would be gone for a couple of weeks. She also changed her phone number and deleted a number of social media accounts, the FBI said. Court documents don't list an attorney for her.
A Lehigh County man also faces charges for his alleged involvement in the riot.
Twenty-nine-year-old Craig Bingert turned himself in Sunday.
The FBI said he worked with other rioters to shove a barricade into police officers.
He then helped them lift it up in an apparent attempt to break through the police line.
that’s the youngest spec op agent i’ve ever seen. was she trained by Gina Haspel?
Espionage for stealing a laptop with Candyland and Angry Birds games on it?
“And here I was led to believe that it was Special Forces that took it.”
Didn’t you hear about the gun battle on the street that left a bunch of SpecOps dead and Gina Haspel on a plane to Gitmo?
I was referring to the people who were saying there were things going on behind the scenes that would keep Trump in office - like the General McIrney (who whatever his name is) Steve Bannon, of course Lin Wood, Sidney etc. Not sure where they got their purported info but it hasn’t panned out.
Lol, true! Probably some pink or green hair too.
It’s just that same look in their eyes. No “life” to them.
Lol!
If she destroyed it then she has committed no sin because the FBI didn’t prosecute Hillary Clinton for destruction of government property or violation of document retention acts.
Would pelosi even be stupid enough to have incriminating stuff on the laptop.
Well yeah, we can only see the top half. we need a full body shot to determine guilt.
She’s got those psychopath white eyes.
I don’t believe for one minute she was going to sell it to Russia. Just adds to the Russia Russia scream.
Okay, Snitch....
Who showed you the videos? Her friends.
Who are they? What are their names?
Do you know where they live, have phone numbers, so we can save time looking it up ourselves?
Did you ever see her with the laptop?
Where is the laptop now?
Shew is just over 4 feet tall.
kinda cute in a nasty way, she pegs in the red zone on the crazy matrix.
Dude! Some people are trying to eat.
Was Nancy actually in the room, or even in the Capitol building when the “riot” began? Both the House and the Senate were there to “certify” the Electoral College vote.
Yet, the plan by pro trump House and Senate members to legally challenge the vote was first interrupted, and later canceled before anything was decided. This seems like just what Nancy would have planned herself. She wanted to provoke a scandal and even a disaster as a psychological operation.
This operation was successful in discrediting and blaming Trump as having planned the whole thing. It even seems that the leftist media and the Capitol police were involved, and knew what was going to happen beforehand.
Nancy was apparently not there. She herself somehow escaped and left behind her laptop. She was not there to prevent the theft, and no one in her cabal was there either. Just the extreme leftist “squad” and the Republicans remained, neither of which had a clue as to what was going to happen.
We know the rest. Or maybe not. Curious.
Charlie Manson cult eyes—the most extreme case I have ever seen was the Heaven’s Gate cult....
Could she be the woman in the pink hat talking through the megaphone?
She probably blurted out a wacky word salad—said the word “rush” and the FBI leaped at the chance to claim it was “Russia”.
Yep...plus a candidate for the not-hot/crazy chart.
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