Two Worcester Residents Charged In U.S. Capitol Riot: FBI

WORCESTER, MA — Two Worcester residents were arrested Thursday on charges they participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, according to the FBI.

Jimmy Hoang Duong and Julie Miller, both of Worcester, join nine other Massachusetts residents who have been arrested and charged in connection to the riot. They were both charged with

knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building, according to court documents.

The FBI used phone location data to track where Miller and Duong were on Jan. 6, according to court records. Miller also told FBI agents she and Duong entered the Capitol, but that "neither she nor Duong engaged in any violence or acts of vandalism."

The pair ventured into the Capitol, eventually winding up in the U.S. Senate parliamentarian's office, court documents say. They posed for pictures in the office.

"Miller and Duong ventured further into the Senate Parliamentarian’s office suite, entering an interior office space. Miller then sat in a desk chair as Duong took pictures of her on his phone. Miller and Duong stayed in the Senate Parliamentarian’s office space for roughly five minutes before they were pushed out of the office by police and were then pushed back out of the U.S. Capitol building through the Senate Fire Door," charging documents say.

The most recent charges were filed in April against Mark Sahady, a Malden resident who was among the first two people arrested over the riot from Massachusetts. Ex-Natick Town Meeting member Sue Ianni was sentenced to a short prison term and was arrested with Sahady in the days after the riot.

Vincent Gillespie, 61, of Athol, was found guilty in December 2022 on charges of assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers, civil disorder, engaging in violence in a restricted building or ground and committing an act of physical violence in the Capitol. Troy Sergeant, 38, of Pittsfield, was sentenced to more than a year in prison for attacking police. Brian McCreary, of North Adams, was sentenced in April to three years probation and 42 days of intermittent incarceration.

Jacquelyn Starer, 68, of Ashland, was arrested in late 2022 and charged with felony civil disorder, assaulting an officer, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building and engaging in physical violence in a restricted building.

Kevin Allen Chase of Seekonk, Noah Bacon of Somerville and David Lester Ross of Pittsfield have also been arrested and charged.