WASHINGTON — A top lawyer with the Oath Keepers militia group was arrested Thursday on charges that she participated in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and conspired with others to obstruct certification of the 2020 election.
Kellye SoRelle, 43, is the latest person affiliated with the group to be indicted in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection. Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes and several co-defendants are set to stand trial later this month for seditious conspiracy, the most serious crime charged against Capitol riot participants.
She is not facing a seditious conspiracy charge, but the most serious of the three felony counts in her indictment carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Besides the charges directly related to the attack, she’s also accused of trying to interfere with the criminal investigation that followed. SoRelle was set to make her first appearance later Thursday in federal court in Austin, Texas.
