CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A component-time member of the West Virginia Nationwide Guard who authorities say was carrying a sweatshirt that learn “Sure, I’m a Trump woman” contained in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda has been charged with collaborating within the January 2021 riot.
Jamie Lynn Ferguson was arrested final week in Lynchburg, Virginia, and is scheduled for an preliminary look Tuesday earlier than a U.S. Justice of the Peace decide in Washington, D.C., in response to a felony grievance.
Ferguson was charged with getting into and remaining in a restricted constructing, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted constructing, disorderly conduct in a Capitol constructing, and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol constructing, the grievance stated.
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Ferguson is a technical sergeant and a part-time, drill standing guardsman assigned to the West Virginia Air Nationwide Guard, Guard spokeswoman Maj. Holli Nelson stated in an announcement.
“As a matter of coverage, the a hundred and thirtieth Airlift Wing and the West Virginia Nationwide Guard don’t touch upon pending felony prices,” the assertion stated.
A federal public defender listed for Ferguson didn’t instantly return a phone message in search of touch upon her behalf Monday.
On Jan. 14, 2021, the U.S. Air Drive Workplace of Particular Investigations submitted an investigative report back to the FBI about Ferguson’s suspected involvement on the Capitol. The report offered her {photograph} and biographical data together with social media posts and screenshots of a video allegedly displaying her contained in the Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 6.
Ferguson was on depart from Jan. 5 to Jan. 7. Her vacation spot was listed as Washington, D.C., in response to the OSI report.
On Jan. 3, 2021, the lady’s Fb account had shared an article with an image of a crowd in entrance of the Capitol with a storm cloud and Mount Rushmore above it. A caption within the girl’s put up learn, “I pray that is precisely what D.C. will appear like on Jan. sixth. #HoldTheLine.” A touch upon the put up requested whether or not the lady was going to the Capitol and she or he replied, “I’m,” in response to an announcement of information filed by an FBI particular agent.
Video footage obtained by Capitol police reveals a lady with lengthy darkish hair carrying a darkish hooded sweatshirt with the phrase “Sure, I’m a Trump Woman” in white lettering and carrying a backpack entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in response to the assertion.
On Jan. 14, 2021, Ferguson was interviewed at her residence by FBI brokers and offered cellphone pictures and movies from Jan. 5 to Jan. 7, 2021. One of many pictures reveals her bodily look and clothes showing to match the lady depicted within the video and information pictures on the Capitol, the assertion stated.
Ferguson informed the brokers she attended a rally in assist of then-President Donald Trump together with her mother and father, who left afterward. Ferguson stated she proceeded to the Capitol, believing she would be capable of see Trump once more, the assertion stated. She stated she remained within the Rotunda space for about 40 minutes.
Court docket paperwork record Ferguson’s beginning 12 months as 1977 however redacted her month and date. Underneath the situations of her launch, Ferguson was ordered to remain on the Virginia residence of her mother and father.
