Riot in the US Capitol: realtor Jenna Ryan apologizes to Trump

A Dallas-area real estate agent facing charges for allegedly being part of the pro-President Donald Trump mob that stormed the US Capitol last week said she is a “normal person” who listened to her president.

Jenna Ryan, 50, is charged with entering or remaining “knowingly” in the restricted building or grounds without legal authority and disorderly conduct on the Capitol grounds on January 6, according to a criminal complaint filed by the FBI in a Washington federal court.

Matt DeSarno, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Dallas office, confirmed that Ryan had turned himself in and that his Carrollton apartment was searched Friday. There was no personal phone available for Ryan and court records did not list an attorney for her as of Friday.

Ryan shared photos and videos on social media, including a video saying, “We’re going down and storming the Capitol,” in front of the bathroom mirror, according to the FBI criminal complaint.

The agent who signed the complaint also noted that Ryan live-streamed a 21-minute Facebook video of her and a group walking toward the Capitol.

“We’re going to (expletive) get in here,” Ryan said in the video as he approached the top of the stairs on the west side of the Capitol building.

“Life or death, it doesn’t matter. Here we go.”

She then turned the camera to expose her face, pointed to the complaint, and said, “Everyone knows who to hire for your realtor, Jenna Ryan for your realtor.

Almost halfway through, Ryan seems to have reached the front door, chanting “USA, USA.” And “Here we are, in the name of Jesus.”

In an interview with KTVT-TV in Fort Worth, Ryan said she hoped Trump would forgive her.

“I just want people to know that I am a normal person, that I listen to my president who told me to go to the Capitol, that I was showing my patriotism while I was there and that I was just protesting and I was not trying to do something violent and I did not give realize there was actually violence, “Ryan said.

Ryan is the third person in the FBI’s Dallas region in the north, northeast and near west Texas to be named in criminal complaints, DeSarno said.

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Larry Rendall Brock Jr. of Grand Prairie, another Dallas suburb, was placed in house confinement Thursday after a prosecutor alleged the former fighter pilot had lace-up handcuffs in the Senate because he planned to take hostages. .

Troy Anthony Smocks, 58, of Dallas, was arrested Friday after a criminal complaint was filed in Washington accusing him of “knowingly and deliberately transmitting threats in interstate commerce.”

Court documents allege that Smocks used social media to post threats on January 6 and 7 regarding the riots. The threats included that he and others would return to the US Capitol Tuesday with weapons and form a mass so large that no military could match them.

He threatened to “hunt down these cowards like the traitors that each one of them is,” specifically threatening Republicans not allied with them, Democrats and “tech executives,” according to a court affidavit.

Smocks could not be reached for comment and no attorney for him is listed in court records.

Also Friday, the first Houston-area resident accused of participating in the riot was arrested. In a criminal complaint filed in Washington, the FBI accuses Joshua Lollar, 39, of Spring, of spearheading a group unsuccessfully trying to break through a line of metropolitan Washington police officers to the Capitol.

Lollar was charged with trespassing, unauthorized presence in a restricted area, and impeding law enforcement during a civil disorder.

He remains in federal custody pending a detention hearing on Tuesday. No lawyer for his is listed in the court records.