3 More FL Residents Arrested For Actions During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Three more Florida residents have been arrested on charges stemming from their actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

This brings the total of Floridians arrested on charges of disrupting a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election to 88, the most of any state in the country.

The state with the next-highest number of residents arrested at the Capitol are from Texas with 83, followed by Pennsylvania with 68, New York with 54, Ohio and California with 46, Virginia with 41, Illinois with 28, New Jersey with 24, Missouri and North Carolina with 22, Georgia with 21, Kentucky with 18, South Carolina and Michigan with 15, Alabama with 14, Maryland with 10.

The most recent Floridians to face charges are Leslie Gray, 56, Traci Isaacs, 52, and her husband, Luis Hallon, 67, all of St. Cloud. They were named in a complaint filed in the District of Columbia.

Gray is charged with civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding, both felonies, as well as misdemeanor offenses. Isaacs is charged with destruction of documents, a felony, and related misdemeanors, and Hallon is charged with misdemeanor offenses. All three defendants were arrested in St. Cloud and are expected to made their initial court appearances June 15 in the Middle District of Florida in Tampa.

According to court documents, Gray came to Washington with her friends, Luis Hallon, 67, and his wife, Traci Isaacs, 52, also of St. Cloud.

Prior to Jan. 6, 2021, Isaacs submitted an application to volunteer with the Oath Keepers on Jan. 6 because she was a paramedic. As alleged in the complaint, the Oath Keepers are a large but loosely organized collection of individuals, some associated with militias. Though the Oath Keepers will accept anyone as members, they explicitly focus on recruiting current and former military, law enforcement and first-responder personnel.

On Jan. 6, Gray, Hallon and Isaacs walked to the Capitol from the Ellipse. All illegally made their way onto the Capitol grounds and into the building. Isaacs and Hallon entered through the rotunda doors and remained inside the Capitol for about 14 minutes, from 3:02 to 3:16 p.m.

Gray, meanwhile, entered the Capitol at 2:41 p.m., also through the rotunda doors, and traveled to multiple areas, including the rotunda. She took videos inside the Capitol’s interior. In one, she stated, “I am in Congress. This is our house. This is our house! … I don’t know what we are doing now but we are in here. We’ve taken it.” She repeatedly yelled “traitor” at law enforcement officers and got past an officer who told her not to proceed further. She left the building at 2:57 p.m., according to court records.

Isaacs and others engaged in text messages about Jan. 6, which were deleted based on a review of her cellphone. Isaacs was interviewed by the FBI on March 29, 2021, and the FBI later was able to recover some deleted messages from an analysis of her cellphone. (See the Department of Justice's Statement of Facts). In one text message, she told wrote, “Delete anything I sent you please. Feds are going after people hard.”

Five people died during the Capitol breach:

According to the FBI Capitol police officer Brian D. Sicknick, 42, was overpowered, sprayed in the face with mace and struck over the head with a fire extinguisher.

Ashli Babbit, 35, an Air Force veteran from Southern California, was shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer as she clambered through a broken window leading to the speaker’s lobby inside the Capitol.

Kevin D. Greeson, 55, of Athens, Alabama, was standing in a throng of fellow Trump loyalists on the west side of the Capitol when he suffered a heart attack and fell to the sidewalk. He was talking on the phone with his wife at the time.

The FBI said Rosanne Boyland, 34, of Kennesaw, Georgia, appears to have been killed in a crush of rioters fighting through a police line.

Benjamin Philips, 50, from Pennyslvania, the founder of a pro-Trump website called Trumparoo, died of a stroke during the insurrection.

This case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the Department of Justice National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section. Assistance was provided by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida.

The case is being investigated by the FBI’s Tampa Field Office and its Orlando Resident Agency with assistance from the FBI’s Washington Field Office and the U.S. Capitol Police.

Click here for the list of people arrested.

The investigation remains ongoing. Anyone with tips can call 1-800-CALL-FBI (800-225-5324) or visit tips.fbi.gov.

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