Authorities are seeking to arrest a Pennsylvania woman accused of taking a laptop from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s office during the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol siege with the alleged intention of selling the device to Russian intelligence forces, officials announced in recent court papers.
The FBI is on the hunt for Riley June Williams, a Harrisburg woman who investigators have linked to the events on Capitol Hill earlier this month.
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According to an arrest warrant filed Sunday night, a tipster called into the FBI’s hotline and told authorities they spotted her in videos from the siege.
The tipster, who was not identified, said Williams’ friends showed the person a video of Williams "taking a laptop computer or hard drive from Speaker Pelosi’s office," court papers state.
The tipster "stated that WILLIAMS intended to send the computer device to a friend in Russia, who then planned to sell the device to SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service.
According to [the tipster], the transfer of the computer device to Russia fell through for unknown reasons and WILLIAMS still has the computer device or destroyed it," the warrant states.
The investigation into the stolen technology is still ongoing.
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