The FBI announced Saturday that it has arrested three people for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol at a Florida ranch.
The FBI's Tampa office identified the fugitives as Jonathan Daniel Pollock, his sister Olivia Michelle Pollock, and Joseph Daniel Hutchinson III. They are scheduled to appear in federal court in Ocala, Florida, on January 8th. I have written on Platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
“Further details regarding their capture are not available at this time,” the agency added.
The agency was offering a reward of up to $30,000 for any information about Jonathan Pollock, who is accused of assaulting police and using a riot shield as a weapon during the riot. Olivia Pollock disappeared just before her trial began and has been missing since at least March, the Associated Press reported.
Hutchinson, who did not appear at his trial last year and is missing, worked with the Pollocks at the family's gun shop in Lakeland, Florida. According to the prosecutor.
The three people Paid It will take place in July 2021, along with two others: Joshua Christopher Doolin and Michael Stephen Perkins.Both men were sentenced in August, and Doolin was extradited. 18 months And Perkins gave 4 years In prison.
Saturday's arrests came on the third anniversary of the riots. More than 1,000 defendants have pleaded guilty or been sentenced in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, ranging from felonies such as seditious conspiracy and assault to misdemeanors such as trespassing.
Of those charged since Jan. 6, 718 have pleaded guilty and an additional 139 have been convicted at trial, according to Justice Department statistics released Friday.
President Biden on Friday slammed the riot, claiming former President Trump and his Republican allies are embodying the same extremism in their policies that was displayed during the storming of the Capitol.
“Donald Trump's campaign is fixated on the past, not the future. The president is willing to sacrifice democracy to put himself in power,” he said in a nearly 30-minute speech in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. “President Trump's attacks on democracy are not just part of the past, and that's what he promises,” he added. future. He is frank. He's not hiding the ball. ”
Trump fired back, calling Biden's speech a “pathetic fear-mongering campaign.”
“Joe Biden's record is an unbroken string of weakness, incompetence, corruption, and failure,” he claimed. “Other than that, things are going very well,” Trump mocked the president.
The former president previously said he would pardon the January 6 defendants if he is re-elected in November.
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