Three years to the date after the Capitol assault on Jan. 6, 2021, a trio of allegedly violent rioters had been arrested in an early morning raid on a Florida ranch.
The FBI’s Tampa division mentioned 24-year-old Jonathan Daniel Pollock, 33-year-old Olivia Michele Pollock and 27-year-old Joseph Daniel Hutchinson III had been all apprehended Saturday in Groveland, Florida, west of Orlando.
Jonathan Pollock had been on the lam because the riot. Olivia Pollock and Hutchinson had been arrested and charged in June 2021 alongside two others, however they vanished whereas out on bond awaiting trial.
The two others, Joshua Christopher Doolin and Michael Steven Perkins, had been sentenced in August.
Prosecutors say the 5 Floridians spent nicely over two hours attacking police who had been attempting to defend the Capitol constructing on Jan. 6, 2021.
Jonathan Pollock, seen in images dressed head-to-toe in military-style tactical gear, is accused of main a cost in opposition to regulation enforcement with a flagpole. Court paperwork say he screamed whereas attempting to drive his means up Capitol stairs: “Let’s go!”
The Floridians allegedly used stolen riot shields, flagpoles and their naked palms to hit, punch and choke regulation enforcement. Olivia Pollock, who was additionally wearing military-style gear, is accused of trying to steal an officer’s baton.
One of the group may allegedly be heard in video footage of the incident yelling, “We didn’t come all this way just to stand here!”
Court paperwork state that Hutchinson had labored at a gun store owned by the Pollack household in Lakeland, Florida; Jonathan and Olivia Pollack are believed to be siblings.
More than 1,200 individuals have been charged with crimes regarding the riot within the three years since former President Donald Trump urged his rally attendees to show their sights to the Capitol, the place Congress was on the time certifying the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election.
Trump is now preventing efforts to bar him from ballots in sure states the place his actions are thought-about insurrectionary.
