A Monmouth County correctional police officer took an emergency holiday from work to travel with a friend to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 where they both joined the insurrection at the Capitol, according to a federal criminal complaint filed against both women.
Marissa Suarez and Patricia Todisco are among nearly a dozen New Jersey residents facing federal charges in connection to the attack.
Both women are accused of violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds and knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority.
Federal investigators were able to track the driving route of Suarez s Jeep Wrangler early in the morning on Jan. 6, among evidence gathered as to Suarez and Todisco s involvement, according to the complaint.
More from NJ charged in Trump riot: Monmouth cop, MMA fighter
A Monmouth County correctional police officer and an MMA fighter were among four more New Jersey people charged on Friday in connection with the incursion at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
The arrests of Marissa Suarez, Patricia Todisco, Stephanie Hazelton and Scott Fairlamb brings the number of New Jersey residents charged to nine.
Suarez, who worked as a correctional police officer at the Monmouth County Correctional Institution for the past year, submitted her resignation on Friday, according to Monmouth County Sheriff Shaun Golden. A violation of federal or state law of any kind is unacceptable, particularly from a sworn member of law enforcement whose role is to protect and serve, said Golden, who is head of the Monmouth County Republican Committee. Actions have consequences and that applies to those who participated in the peaceful protests that resulted in violence at the Capitol.
A fifth New Jersey resident has been charged with storming the U.S. Capitol earlier this month as Congress met to certify President Joe Biden s election victory.
Rasha Abual-Ragheb, a Fairfield resident who goes by Rasha Abu, was charged on Jan. 16 after someone who saw a picture of her inside the Capitol tipped off the FBI, officials said.
The FBI said they investigated her Facebook posts where she posted about being proud to be part of history even though she had been hit with pepper spray and tear gas.
Rasha Abual-Ragheb s Facebook post about being at the Capitol riot (FBI)
Another New Jersey resident has been unofficially identified from the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, while federal authorities continue to file charges against participants two weeks after the deadly riot.
Video footage posted to Youtube by Just Another Channel shows Stephanie Hazelton, of Medford, who also goes by the name Ayla Wolf, shouting instructions to others in the crowd, as reported by Philadelphia Magazine.
In the video, the woman that the magazine identified as Hazelton shouts repeatedly for more men to join those pushing their way inside the federal building, in which members of Congress were ushered into protective isolation as the mob broke windows and scaled walls to enter.