After walking out of the Capitol with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s laptop two weeks ago, Riley Williams didn’t wait long, FBI agents said, to tell the internet what she had done.
Eventually, however, they did. Those messages, detailed in a court filing late Tuesday, formed the basis for new federal charges authorities lodged against Williams less than 24 hours after publicity surrounding her case, much of it generated on the same social media sites she frequented, prompted the 22-year-old to surrender to authorities. And like many of the more than 100 accused rioters the Justice Department has charged to date, the impulse to document her alleged crimes online in real time ultimately led to her undoing. In addition to the Discord messages, prosecutors say Williams shot video on her cell phone as she stormed the Capitol with the crowd of Trump supporters, including at least two segments she posted while roaming Pelosi’s office.
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Central Pa. woman at center of probe into Pelosi’s stolen laptop: Who she is, where she’s from
Updated Jan 21, 2021;
Posted Jan 19, 2021
The FBI claims the red arrow in this photo shows Riley Williams of Central Pa. joining in the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot.
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The woman at the center of an investigation into the whereabouts of Nancy Pelosi’s laptop graduated from Mechanicsburg Area Senior High in 2017, according to yearbooks.
Riley June Williams, 22, was referenced only once in the yearbook as a junior with her school photo. She did not submit a senior picture for the 2017 yearbook and was listed as “not pictured.”