An Arizona woman charged for her alleged involvement in the U.S. Capitol breach earlier this year claims she was recruited by a Kansas City chapter of the Proud Boys, a group that has long forbidden female members. Felicia Konold, 26, from Tucson was taken into custody in her home state on Feb. 11 on multiple charges that include conspiracy, civil disorder, obstruction, trespassing, and disorderly conduct, according to a criminal complaint (pdf) from the Department of Justice. The criminal complaint said law enforcement officials received a tip from a witness about a Snapchat account going with the username “classy_lacy”—later identified as Konold—describing the Jan. 6 incident in several videos. Konold was seen in the footage reportedly boasting about the Kansas City Proud Boys recently recruiting her. “In a video from the Snapchat account, a woman’s voice celebrated that she had just been ‘recruited into a [expletive] chapter from Kansas City,'” the …
Arizona Woman Charged in Capitol Breach Claims Proud Boys Recruited Her: DOJ
February 17, 2021
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