The FBI is offering a hefty reward of up to $15,000 for anyone with information that leads to the arrest of a Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendant.
Jonathan Daniel Pollock, a 23-year-old from Lakeland, Florida, who is accused of assaulting multiple police officers with a deadly weapon at the Capitol, is described as having brown hair, brown eyes, weighing approximately 160 pounds, and being 5 feet, 10 inches tall. He works as “a welder and ironworker, by trade” and could be working in construction-related jobs, according to the FBI.
“We’ve been trying to locate Mr. Pollock since last summer,” said FBI Tampa acting Special Agent in Charge Sanjay Virmani. “The allegations against him aren’t going away and must be dealt with. The FBI is patient but determined to bring to justice those responsible for the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.”
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Pollock is “believed to have friends and family throughout central and north Florida, as well as in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas,” the FBI noted.
According to court documents, Pollock took several weeks off of work to travel to Washington, D.C., around Jan. 6. Co-workers told investigators he bragged about his involvement in the protests when he returned, according to CNN.
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Pollock said he had a family emergency a few days after he came back to work and never returned, prosecutors claim. When a co-worker went to Pollock’s house, Pollock’s father answered the door and said he did not know where his son had gone.
The FBI says members of the public should take no action themselves and instead contact the nearest FBI field office or the nearest U.S. Embassy or U.S. Consulate if they spot Pollock. Information can also be submitted to tips.fbi.gov.
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The FBI has not yet responded to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
