Republican Ryan Kelly, who ran for Governor of Michigan during the January 6 attack, was arrested at his home in Allendale, Michigan, on Thursday morning, according to FBI agent Mara R. Schneider. rice field.
Kelly was the first person to run for election in a major state or federal race charged in connection with the attack.
According to criminal charges, Mr. Kelly was accused of violently attacking people or property for restricted reasons, damaging federal property, acting chaotically, and entering restricted buildings or premises without permission. I was charged. All four accusations are misdemeanors, according to a spokesman for the US law firm in the District of Columbia.
FBI agents seemed to use Kelly’s phone “to film the assault of the crowd and overtake police officers in the U.S. Capitol,” Kelly’s actions in court filings. I explained. Filing also said that Mr. Kelly had “used his hand to support another mob” pulling down a metal barricade, he said, “to the crowd, it consistently headed to the entrance to the Capitol.” It shows that we should keep moving. “
Kelly was partially identified because what he wore on January 6 was similar to the outfit he wore at the American Patriotic Council’s Judgment Day rally in Lansing, Michigan in May 2020. I was able to do it. Filing.
Efforts to reach Mr. Kelly and his campaign have failed. The mailbox with the phone number listed in the campaign was full and could not accept the message.
The man who answered the phone listed in the campaign account said, “No comments, thank you” when the reporter contacted me.
The arrest preceded the Republican primary on August 2, and Kelly is competing with four other candidates for a chance to confront Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer in this fall’s general election.
Kelly, a real estate broker on the outskirts of Grand Rapids Chief Organizer of Armed Protest Opposed to a pandemic blockade at the Michigan State Capitol in April 2020. In June of that year, he summoned about 50 militias and confronted dozens of Black Lives Matter protesters over the statue of a South Army soldier in the town.
And after the 2020 presidential election, Mr. Kelly and militia members appeared for violent protests outside the state’s ballot counting center.
“Working too closely with the militia-is that bad?” He said in a previous interview.
Alan Fur, David D. Kirkpatrick When Mike McIntyre Report that contributed.
