Authorities are trying to arrest a Pennsylvania woman accused of carrying a laptop from Mayor Nancy Pelosi’s office during the Jan. 6 siege of the United States Capitol with the alleged intention of selling the device to intelligence forces. authorities announced in recent court documents.
The FBI is on the hunt for Riley June Williams, a Harrisburg woman that investigators related to events on Capitol Hill earlier this month. According to an arrest warrant issued Sunday night, an informant called the FBI hotline and told authorities that they saw her in videos of the siege.
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The informant, who was not identified, said Williams’ friends showed the person a video of Williams “picking up a laptop or hard drive from the office of Mayor Pelosi,” court documents said.
The informant “stated that WILLIAMS intended to send the computer device to a friend in Russia, who planned to sell the device to SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service. [the tipster], the transfer of the computer device to Russia failed for unknown reasons and WILLIAMS still has the computer device or destroyed it, “the court order says.
The investigation into the stolen technology is still ongoing.
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A spokesman for Pelosi did not respond to Fox News’ request for comment on Monday. Drew Hammill, Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff, confirmed in a Jan. 8 tweet that a laptop was stolen.
The informant identified Williams as being seen in footage from a British news site, ITV News, wearing a brown overcoat over a green top.
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In the first of the two ITV News clips mentioned in the warrant, a woman who appears to be Williams can be heard “screaming repeatedly, ‘Up there, up there, up there’, and can be seen physically directing other intruders to climb up one ladder “, court documents declare. Investigators confirmed that the ladder leads to Pelosi’s office.
In the second clip from ITV News, Williams’s mother told a reporter that “she recognized her daughter inside the United States Capitol building and that she was suddenly interested in President Trump’s policy and the ‘far right message boards'” says the warrant.
She told the reporter that Williams “took off” and did not know where her daughter had gone. She also changed her phone number and is believed to have deleted several social media accounts.
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Williams reportedly traveled to Washington with his father on January 6, but separated from him during the day, the warrant says.
She is wanted on charges of intentionally entering a restricted building with violent entry and disorderly conduct.
Fox News’ Jake Gibson contributed to this report.