Missing woman is accused of taking laptop from Pelosi's office during Capitol riot, FBI says - The Washington Post

Authorities are searching for an alleged Capitol rioter who — according to a “former romantic partner” — may have stolen a laptop or hard drive from the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the FBI says.

According to the witness, however, the plan fell through for unknown reasons, and Williams still has the device or has destroyed it, the FBI said.

Williams was charged Sunday with trespassing and disorderly conduct in the Capitol, after her mother told police in Harrisburg, Pa., that Williams packed a bag and fled without disclosing her destination, according to the FBI.

Williams can be seen in a ITV News video posted to YouTube, taken from inside the Capitol, wearing a green T-shirt and brown trench coat with a zebra-print bag, directing rioters up a staircase toward Pelosi’s office, the FBI said.

Other video and photographs capture Williams entering or inside the Capitol, according to law enforcement.

The FBI agent said police in Harrisburg confirmed with Williams’s father, of Camp Hill, Pa., that the pair drove to Washington for the Jan.

11, law enforcement in Harrisburg also went to the home Williams shares with her mother after receiving the mother’s “suspicious persons report.” The affidavit says without providing further explanation that, per Williams’s mother, “the suspicious person was assumed to be W1.”.

With officers observing, the mother video-called Williams — who could be seen wearing a brown jacket consistent with images from the Capitol, the FBI said.

Within days, British media arrived at the home looking for Williams and spoke with the mother, according to court documents.

The mother told the news outlet that Williams went to rallies and had grown suddenly interested in Trump’s politics and “far right message boards,” in statements also cited by the FBI.