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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida woman was arrested Wednesday on charges connected to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday.
Lin Marie Carey, 56, travelled from Naples to D.C. to participate in the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, according to the newly-unsealed criminal complaint.
Carey told the FBI she paid $115 to take a bus from southwest Florida to Washington D.C. after hearing about it on a Facebook group. The bus departed from the Seed to Table grocery store, which gained notoriety for resisting COVID masking mandates.
Court documents state Carey travelled with her church group and was dropped off in D.C. at 4 a.m. on Jan. 6, just hours before former President Donald Trump’s rally at the Ellipse. She gave the FBI several self-recorded videos, including one where she narrated her journey into the Capitol building, according to the DOJ.
“I’m putting my goggles on. I think they’re going to try to tear gas us,” Carey said, according to court documents.
She was captured on security cameras inside the Capitol wearing a yellow scuba mask. Carey also recorded herself yelling, “we want Trump,“ “taking back our house,” and “Stop the Steal,” at least eight times, the DOJ said.
“’Georgia was a disappointment last night; they stole it again. They’re getting really good at stealing elections’,” court documents stated. “She went on to say, ‘We’re here to support the POTUS, Stop the Steal, and save our country for our children and grandchildren’.”
Another self-recorded video showed Carey and another woman wandering the halls “in search of a bathroom,” the DOJ said. She asked a Capitol police officer to point her toward a restroom, which led them downstairs to another officer who ushered them out of the building. Carey boarded a bus back home at 3:45 p.m.
Carey was arrested over three years later in Naples. She was charged with obstruction of an official proceeding – a felony – and misdemeanor offenses of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, parading, picketing, and demonstrating in a Capitol building.
