Defendant Accused of Assaulting an Officer
WASHINGTON — A Massachusetts lady was arrested on felony costs, together with assaulting a regulation enforcement officer, for her actions in the course of the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Her actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to determine and rely the electoral votes associated to the presidential election.
Jacquelyn Starer, 68, of Ashland, Massachusetts, is charged by legal grievance, filed within the District of Columbia, with civil dysfunction, a felony; assaulting, resisting, or impeding sure officers; getting into and remaining in a restricted constructing or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted constructing or grounds; and fascinating in bodily violence in a restricted constructing or grounds. She was arrested at present in Ashland. She is anticipated to make her preliminary look later at present within the District of Massachusetts.
In line with courtroom paperwork, on Jan. 6, 2021, Starer illegally entered Capitol grounds. She went into the Capitol by means of the East Rotunda Doorways. Video from physique worn cameras worn by Metropolitan Police Division (MPD) officers reveals Starer method MPD officers and make contact with an MPD officer at roughly 2:59 p.m. Shortly thereafter, Starer struck an MPD Officer.
At roughly 3:06pm, surveillance video reveals Starer exited the U.S. Capitol from the East Rotunda Doorways. Extra opinions of open-source video additionally present Starer, on January 6, 2021, exiting the east aspect of the U.S. Capitol Constructing.
This case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the District of Columbia and the Division of Justice Nationwide Safety Division’s Counterterrorism Part. Helpful help was offered by the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the District of Massachusetts.
The case is being investigated by the FBI’s Boston Workplace-Worcester Resident Company and the FBI’s Washington Subject Workplace, which recognized Starer as #405 on its in search of data pictures. Helpful help was offered by the U.S. Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Division.
Within the 23 months since Jan. 6, 2021, near 900 people have been arrested in almost all 50 states for crimes associated to the breach of the U.S. Capitol, together with over 270 people charged with assaulting or impeding regulation enforcement. The investigation stays ongoing.
Anybody with ideas can name 1-800-CALL-FBI (800-225-5324) or go to ideas.fbi.gov.
A grievance is merely an allegation, and all defendants are presumed harmless till confirmed responsible past an inexpensive doubt in a courtroom of regulation.