WASHINGTON — A California conservative influencer was arrested Jan. 6 on charges that included helping steal a table from a Capitol conference room, the FBI said. there were attacks on law enforcement agencies.
Isabella Deluca was an ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump was arrested Irvine, Calif., was unsealed Monday, according to court records filed Friday. He faces five charges, including theft of government property.
Deluca, according to The FBI can be seen “removing a table from ST-2M and aiding and abetting other rioters” — an office in the Capitol — “and passing it through another broken window to the rioters outside.” The table was “subsequently used to attack law enforcement officers guarding the Lower West Terrace Tunnel,” the FBI said.
Deluca has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers on social media earlier Ambassador for the conservative group Turning Points USA. He says in online bio he is former Rep. Lee Zeldin, RN.Y. and Rep. He interned for Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz. (Zeldin left office in 2023 and lost the New York gubernatorial race in 2022.)
The FBI first learned about Deluca just three days after the Capitol attack and interviewed Deluca on January 21, 2021, the day after Joe Biden’s inauguration, according to the bureau.
“Fight or let the politicians steal [an] election? Fight!” Deluca claimed he tweeted on the afternoon of January 6th.
Photos in the FBI affidavit show Deluca helping to remove the table from the broken window and showing him as a co-defendant Jan. 6. Timothy DesjardinsArrested in 2021, he took the leg of a wooden table and attacked the officers with that leg. (Last year it was Desjardins was convicted A separate state charge from the Jan. 6 charges carries up to 18 years in prison. Claim negotiations Continue In the Jan. 6 incident.) Another rioter threw a table top at officers, the FBI said.
In an Instagram comment after the attack, Deluca wrote that it was “about three times worse” and “used milk to get the mace/tear gas out of my eye.”
DeLuca later wrote on January 6 that he had “mixed feelings” and then wrote that Trump should declare martial law, according to the FBI.
Deluca did not immediately respond to NBC News’ request for comment.
More than 1,300 people have been arrested in connection with the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and prosecutors have secured more than 950 convictions. About 500 people were sentenced to terms ranging from a few days behind bars to 22 years in federal prison.