re: FBI arrests GOP candidate for Michigan governor in connection with Jan. 6

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An FBI agent’s affidavit noted that the bureau received “numerous” tips that Kelley had been at the Capitol on Jan. 6, including one just 10 days after the attack. One of the people who identified Kelley was a confidential human source who’d been working with the FBI since 2020 “to provide information about Domestic Terrorism groups in Michigan,” the affidavit said. The source allegedly spotted Kelley on a news media video. Citing video footage from the riot, the affidavit pieced together Kelley’s alleged whereabouts during the attack, starting near the scaffolding on the western side of the Capitol, where a man identified as Kelley, dressed in a black coat and aviator sunglasses, allegedly filmed the crowd assaulting Capitol Police officers. As the police officers retreated, Kelley allegedly began to climb up the scaffolded stairs, at one point “waving his hand that the crowd behind him should move toward the stairs,” the affidavit said. Video then allegedly showed Kelley supporting another rioter who pulled a metal barricade onto the scaffolding.

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Kelley then allegedly pulled the covering off of the temporary inauguration grandstands. He allegedly continued gesturing to the crowd to move toward the stairs.

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Kelley then allegedly pulled the covering off of the temporary inauguration grandstands. He allegedly continued gesturing to the crowd to move toward the stairs.

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According to the affidavit, the farthest Kelley got was the North West Courtyard at the top of the steps, just outside the Capitol doors. He allegedly motioned with his thumb “towards the doors to the interior of the U.S. Capitol Building,” the affidavit alleged.

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U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia

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