FBI arrests Jan. 6 fugitives in Lake County on anniversary of DC riot

The FBI said Saturday it arrested three fugitives in Lake County for their involvement with the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, with their capture coming on the third anniversary of the riot.

“The FBI executed three federal arrest warrants early this morning at a ranch in Groveland, Florida in Lake County,” the agency said in a news release from its Tampa office. “The subjects taken into custody are January 6 fugitives Jonathan Daniel Pollock, Olivia Michele Pollock, and Joseph Daniel Hutchinson III.”

The FBI said all are scheduled to appear in federal court in Ocala on Monday.

According to an FBI wanted poster, a warrant for Jonathan Pollock was issued in federal court in Washington, D.C., on June 25, 2021, after he was charged with assaulting multiple police officers, “theft of government Property; Restricted Building or Grounds Without Lawful Authority; and Violent Entry and Disorderly Conduct on Capitol Grounds.”

The poster said he was a 23-year-old Florida native who worked as a welder and iron worker. The FBI offered a $30,000 reward for his capture.

An FBI video describes him as wearing camouflage at the Jan. 6 riot and shows him assaulting law enforcement officers. The FBI posters for Olivia Pollock, 33, and Hutchinson, 27, listed most of the same alleged crimes.

On Jan. 6, 2021, supporters of President Donald Trump, fueled by his false claims of a stolen election, assaulted police and smashed their way into the Capitol to interrupt the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory, forcing lawmakers into hiding.

Most of the rioters had come from a nearby rally where Trump urged them to “fight like hell.”

A Trump supporter, Ashli Babbitt, was shot and killed by a police officer as she tried to breach a barricaded doorway inside the Capitol. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, injured while confronting the rioters, suffered a stroke the next day and died from natural causes, the Washington, D.C., medical examiner’s office said.

Congress reconvened hours later to finish certifying the election result.