Michelle Estey and Melanie Belger are facing federal charges of entering a restricted building, disorderly and disruptive conduct, and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.
Two women accused of illegally entering the U.S. Capitol building during the Jan. 6 insurrection are facing federal charges after recently being arrested in Orange County.
Both women were arrested in Orange County, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Estey is a Newport Beach resident, according to court filings, while Belger is a Tustin resident. According to a statement by an FBI agent filed with the federal complaint, both women are believed to have been filmed inside a room at the Capitol in a YouTube video that was later posted online under the title “D.C. Burning – Jan. 6 DC Riots.”
In order to enter and exit that room the women would have had to climb through a broken window, the agent wrote. They allegedly spent several minutes inside the room “with other rioters while furniture was being destroyed, desks and drawers searched and files ransacked and searched,” the agent added.
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