An FBI agent’s affidavit on a warrant issued Wednesday said that after a group inside a Capitol room stated they needed a plan, Powell told them “that they should ‘coordinate together if you are going to take this building.’ She also notes that they ‘have another window to break.’”
Investigators were conducting court-authorized activity at the Sandy Lake home of Rachel Powell. She told The New Yorker she was the person recorded at the Capitol talking on a bullhorn and wearing a distinctive pink hat.
Jorden Mink of Oakdale and Matthew Perna of Sharon appeared in court Tuesday afternoon. The prosecutions will proceed in Washington, D.C.
A federal magistrate judge in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, ruled Tuesday that Riley June Williams will remain in a local jail for at least two more days before he will decide whether she should be released on bail.
A similar FBI raid four years ago led to the indictment last year of Dougherty, Philadelphia City Councilman Bobby Henon and six other Local 98 officials and members on bribery and embezzlement charges.
