Frisco real estate broker Jenna Ryan is arrested on charges of rioting at the United States Capitol
Frisco’s real estate broker Jenna Ryan is arrested on charges of participating in a US Capitol riot
FRISCO, Texas – The FBI arrested a woman from Frisco on Friday for her involvement in the US Capitol riot last week.
Jenna Ryan, who is a real estate agent in the area, faces charges of “intentionally entering or staying in any restricted building or land without legal authority” and “disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds”.
In an unsealed statement of facts on Friday, the feds say Ryan and others arrived by private plane from Denton to Washington DC and in a social media post threatened to invade the capital and posted photos and videos of her in the capital during the riot involving a pro-Trump crowd.
A video posted on the day of the riot on her Facebook account shows her speaking in the mirror and saying “We are going to go down and invade the Capitol. They are there now and that is why we came and this is what we are going to do. So wish me luck. . “
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Later that day, Ryan posted a video of herself on Facebook marching to the Capitol. Later, she tweeted a photo of herself in front of a broken window in the Capitol building, writing “Window in the capital [sic]. And if the news doesn’t stop lying about us, we’ll go after your studios next … “
Ryan spoke to FOX4 earlier in the week and said he didn’t think he would be taken into custody.
“I don’t feel like I did anything wrong, in fact, I felt like I did something noble and I’m proud to be there,” she said in an interview on Wednesday. “I was doing my duty, right? I was doing my duty to my president.”
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Ryan admitted to being on the Capitol and entering during the attack, but claims that she was at peace and did not know what was happening around her at the time.
“And I said, ‘OK, we’re going to invade the Capitol’, but I didn’t mean with guns and knives.” Ryan said earlier. “For me, it was a protest. I didn’t know that people were being killed. I didn’t know that people were dying.”
There is no evidence provided that it caused violence directly in the capital.
FBI investigators collected evidence at Ryan’s Carrolton home on Friday night.
“We are looking to identify all the people who were involved in that Capitol siege,” said Matthew J. DeSarno, special agent in charge of the FBI Dallas.
The FBI says that across the country, Ryan is one of more than 275 open cases related to the insurrection and has received more than 100,000 pieces of digital media tips, many of them related to North Texans.
They are asking more people to come forward.
“The informants handed over their friends, neighbors and relatives. All of them are increasingly radicalized by inflamed rhetoric, ”added DeSarno.
Five people, including a Capitol police officer, ended up dying when Trump supporters broke into the Capitol building after an incendiary speech by the president. The riot suspended for several hours the certification of the Electoral College by lawmakers.
Ryan joins Larry Brock Jr. of Grapevine, who was inside Capitol chambers wearing combat equipment and carrying zippers, and a man named Troy Anthony Smocks, while northern Texans were arrested for actions on Capitol Hill.
A judge released Ryan hours after his arrest.
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