A laptop was stolen from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office when the Capitol was under siege by protesters on Wednesday.
“A laptop from a conference room was stolen. It was a laptop that was only used for presentations,” Drew Hammill, Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff, said in a tweet on Friday.
He was responding to a Reuters report that said a congressional aide to Pelosi revealed a laptop had been taken from the California Democrat’s office.
During the Wednesday breach, some rioters made their way to the speaker’s office, taking photos at her desk and livestreaming from inside.
A Justice Department official said that one of the men photographed in her office, Richard Barnett, a 60-year-old from Gravette, Arkansas, was arrested on Friday, according to NBC News. Barnett has been charged with entering and remaining on restricted grounds, violent entry, and theft of public property.
It was not immediately clear what Barnett is accused of stealing.
Another Democrat, Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon, said rioters stole a laptop from his ransacked office.
