Nancy's laptop thief apparently has been located.
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2022/08/18/riley-june-williams-house-arrest-pa-renaissance-faire-accused-theft-nancy-pelosi-laptop-capitol-riot/stories/202208180099
She was arrested Jan. 18 after police said she participated in the Jan. 6 riots, and she was later indicted on the charges related to Ms. Pelosi’s laptop on Oct. 6.
The FBI investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection revealed video and photos of a woman that appears to be Ms. Williams encouraging people to go inside the Capitol during the riot and directing members of the mob once inside.
Posts and video on social media apps, apparently made by Ms. Williams, also claimed that she stole Ms. Pelosi’s laptop.
“I took Nancy Polesis [sic] hard drives. I don’t care. Kill me,” authorities say she wrote on the social media site Discord just hours after the attack.
She purportedly boasted of purloining other items including Ms. Pelosi’s “gravel hammwrd tbing” — an apparent reference to the speaker’s ceremonial gavel — and felt confident she had escaped scot-free. “Like theure [sic] gonna arrest me,” Ms. Williams allegedly wrote, adding in another post hours later: “They’ll never take me alive.”
Eventually, they did take her alive.
Ms. Williams does not yet have a trial date. But Ms. Ulrich said she is scheduled for a status conference Friday, during which her lawyers hope to set a date.
Earlier in the week, Judge Amy Jackson denied Ms. Williams’ request to transfer her trial out of Washington, D.C., and back to Central Pennsylvania.
“The defendant appears to know little about the city or its people, and she relies on a flawed survey and mere assumptions and generalizations about the jury pool,” Judge Jackson said.
Additionally, Judge Jackson denied prior motions to lift Ms. Williams’ house arrest because she did not fully comply with the current terms of her release and is considered a flight risk.
Ms. Williams is accused of obstruction of an official proceeding; assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers; theft of government property; entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricting building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a capitol building; and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a capitol building.
The Philadelphia Inquirer contributed.
First Published August 18, 2022, 10:09am