Donovan Crowl and Jessica Watkins are both currently in the Montgomery County Jail.
Credit: Montgomery County Jail Published: 7:47 PM EST January 18, 2021 Updated: 10:02 PM EST January 19, 2021
Two Champaign County residents have been arrested and charged in connection with the Capitol building riots that happened Jan. 6.
Donovan Ray Crowl, 50, and Jessica Marie Watkins, 38, are currently being held in the Montgomery County Jail.
The two are charged with conspiracy, conspiracy to hurt an officer, violent entry, obstruction of official business and destruction of government property.
According to an affidavit, Crowl and Watkins traveled to Washington D.C. and willfully joined a crowd who forcibly entered the Capitol and impeded, disrupted and disturbed the orderly conduct of business by the House of Representatives and the Senate.
A crowd of Trump supporters
stormed the building - the heart of America s democracy - during violent clashes with police on 6 January following an address by the outgoing president.
Suspects Jessica Watkins and Donovan Crowl are facing unspecified federal charges brought by the Department of Justice.
They are being held in Montgomery County Jail in Ohio after turning themselves in to authorities on Sunday.
The FBI said Watkins posed a video on the microblogging site Parler on 6 January where she said Yeah. We stormed the Capitol today. Teargassed, the whole, 9. Pushed our way into the Rotunda. Made it into the Senate even, according to an affidavit reported by local media.
Former New Caney ISD superintendent submitted expenses for trips he did not take, according to arrest warrant affidavit
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NEW CANEY, Texas New Caney ISD s former Superintendent Kenn Franklin is accused of submitting at least $2,500 worth of fake travel expenses to the district, according to arrest warrant affidavits from the Montgomery County District Attorney s Office.
Franklin was booked into the Montgomery County Jail on Jan. 7 and released on bond. He was charged with aggregate theft by a public servant, a third-degree felony, and tampering with a government record, which is a state jail felony.
According to the affidavit, the school district requested help on Sept. 21 from the Texas Rangers. NCISD Police Chief Troy Wootton said there had been some suspicion that Franklin was creating and submitting travel vouchers for work trips he did not take, per the affidavit.
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