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The Justice Department said that Leslie Gray, 56, Traci Isaacs,
52, and her husband, Luis Hallon, 67, of St. Cloud, Florida were
all arrested on Wednesday.
Gray is facing felony charges of civil disorder and obstruction
of an official proceeding and other misdemeanors, while Isaacs
is charged with destruction of documents and other lesser
offenses, while Hallon is facing several misdemeanors.
All three are accused of illegally entering the Capitol on Jan.
6, 2021.
Isaacs, who is a paramedic, is alleged to have submitted an
application with the Oath Keepers to volunteer her medical
services.
A number of the group's members, including its leader Stewart
Rhodes, are due to go to trial later this year on seditious
conspiracy charges in connection with the riot at the U.S.
Capitol.
Prosecutors say Isaacs later deleted text messages exchanged on
Jan. 6, but the FBI was able to recover some of them. In one
message, she told someone: “Delete anything I sent you please.
Feds are going after people hard.”
More than 840 been charged with taking part in the Capitol riot
in which supporters of Republican then-President Donald Trump
tried to prevent formal congressional certification of his 2020
election loss to Democrat Joe Biden, attacking police and
sending lawmakers scrambling for safety.
Trump has made false claims that he lost due to widespread
voting fraud.
(Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
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