The FBI said it received advice from a former romantic couple seen in a video.
The FBI is investigating whether a woman who allegedly participated in the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol stole a computer or hard drive from the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the intent to sell it to the Russian intelligence service.
According to an FBI criminal complaint filed Sunday in federal court in Washington, DC, a witness called the FBI with the suggestion that a woman from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Riley June Williams, be seen in a video posted by ITV , a British broadcasting network. , which represents Williams’ presence at the Capitol during the riot.
The witness told the FBI that she was previously Williams’ romantic partner. The witness claimed to have spoken to friends of Williams who allegedly showed the witness a video of Williams “taking a laptop or hard drive from Pelosi’s office,” according to the complaint.
The sale in Russia ended, according to the testimony of the witness described by the FBI in the complaint, and Williams “still has the computer device or destroyed it.” The matter is still being investigated, according to the document.
The complaint alleges that Williams committed criminal offenses of entering restricted buildings and of violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. He is not accused of stealing Pelosi’s computer.
The whereabouts of Williams are unknown.
“It looks like WILLIAMS has fled,” according to the document, and “once after January 6, 2021, WILLIAMS changed his phone number and deleted what I think were his social media accounts on Facebook, Instagram , Twitter, Reddit, Telegram and Parler “.
Williams’ mother told local police in Harrisburg that her daughter made a bag and left, telling her mother that she would be leaving for a couple of weeks, but that she did not provide information about her. destination, according to the complaint.
Screenshots of the ITV video appear in the complaint. In them, Williams appears to be wearing a brown coat and a green shirt.
The complaint also contains links to ITV videos, including one with an interview with a woman identified by ITV as Williams’ mother, who describes her daughter as “empathetic and loving.”
He arrives when new images of alleged riot police appear on the Senate floor, including Jacob Chansley, who authorities say can be seen wearing a leather-lined hat with horns, on the Senate floor, where Vice President Mike Pence was sitting before being evacuated.
According to court documents, Chansley left a creepy note for Pence.
“It’s only a matter of time, justice comes,” he wrote, according to court documents. The video seems to show it by reading the note aloud.
Chansley pleaded not guilty and was arrested pending trial.
In a video by Luke Mogelson, published by The New Yorker, published over the weekend, he sees rioters and others walking down the floor of the U.S. Senate and suggesting that President Donald Trump wanted them to be there.
Elsewhere, you can hear a mutineer say to Capitol police officers, “You’re in the lower numbers! There’s a billion people there, and we’re listening to Trump, your boss.”
Jenna Ryan, a Texas real estate agent accused of illegal entry and disorderly conduct, also claimed she was acting under Trump’s direction and wants to be granted a pardon.
“I don’t feel any shame of guilt in my heart for what I was doing. I thought I was following my president. I thought I was following what we were called to do,” he told local news channel KTVT.