Capitol Hill Arrests: Section Three

Nicholas DeCarlo: This Texas gentleman had apparently listened to President Trump once too often. 

Or maybe a hundred times. 

He allegedly wore a t-shirt and a hat to the riot, both emblazoned with the phrase, “MT Media,” short for “Murder the Media.’ 

You know: Like Trump has repeatedly said, the media is “the Enemy of the American People.” DeCarlo, 30, allegedly appears in several pictures with Nick Ochs, the reputed founder of the Hawaiian branch of the Proud Boys. 

In fact, DeCarlo told investigators he worked for “Murder the Media News,” and was there on…who knows…an assignment? Ochs and DeCarlo are seen in one picture standing in a spot where it was later found someone had scratched “Murder the Media” into the Capitol Building woodwork. 

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Strong had claimed World War III was going to occur on Jan. 6 and that the extremist group QAnon would cover the debt for a new truck he recently had purchased.

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Patrick Alonzo Stedman: The 32-year-old New Jersey man describes himself in his Twitter profile as a “Dating + Relationship Strategist. I read people like books and help them change their story.” 

He has more than 25 million followers! 

You can quickly deduce where Stedman stands, when you realize he sometimes posts about the “COVID/CABAL” on his account. 

On December 30, he was already fired up and ready to go. He called on his followers to get in touch with him, because he was forming a “team” to go to Washington D.C. on January 6. He explained: 

“Highly, HIGHLY recommend all Patriots come to DC on the 6th. This will be a turning point in our nation.

 

Will eventually be a national holiday akin to the 4th of July. You want to tell your grandchildren you were there.” 

This is who these people think they are.

Now the feds may throw the book at him. In a video posted to his Twitter account on the day of the riot, Stedman claimed, “I was pretty much in the first wave, and we broke down the doors and climbed up the back part of the Capitol building and got all the way into the chambers.” 

In one of his first images allegedly posted from the day of the riot, Stedman says he sees the Yeti! 

“Backwards hat (Antifa) right where they were breaking into the main area of Congress.” The picture he includes does not seem to prove anything about who the person in the backwards hat is; in fact…hell…I might be old, but I can’t tell which person he’s even talking about. Nor is there any explanation of how Stedman knew the individual was Antifa. 

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, other videos posted by Stedman show him sitting in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office. 

Stedman, who claims to  be an expert in “female psychology” is apparently terrible when it comes to predictions. “Patriots took the hard drives from the Capitol,” he tweeted happily at one point. Then he reported that President Trump had sent in the D.C. National Guard to assist the rioters. “What did we tell you these last few months? The storm is here,” he exclaimed. 

As in “Q,” the storm is here. 

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Tyler Ethridge: Texas Monthly provides all the information you might need to know on Ethridge, a youth pastor in Florida. For example, he was once called the “greatest six-man football player” in Texas high school history. Ethridge starred as quarterback for Richland Springs High School and set several state records, including for touchdown passes. 

In a video posted to Parler, a man who identifies himself as a pastor speaks from inside the Capitol as rioters in the background chant “Stop the steal.” “Just to let you know, I’m not involved in this,” the man says. “I’m just observing. … I don’t want to say that what we’re doing is right. But if the election is being stolen, what is it going to take?”

 

In the aftermath of the Capitol riot, Ethridge defended his actions on his YouTube channel. In one video he said he had a “radical love for this nation,” adding that he believed that the “prophets” said that Trump should be president for two terms. Meanwhile on Twitter, where his account is now set to private, he wrote that he was “willing to go to jail” for what he believed in and had turned himself into federal authorities. “I don’t have a lawyer. I unlawfully entered the Capitol (even though I was let in). That’s against the law so I turned myself in,” he tweeted.

 

“I’m probably going to lose my job as a pastor after this,” Ethridge said in the video from inside the Capitol. Indeed, the church he worked at in Tampa announced on January 19 that Ethridge was no longer part of its staff. 

As of now, Ethridge has not been arrested. 

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Melody Steele-Smith: Ms. Steele admits that she was there on Capitol Hill during the riot. She doesn’t admit there was a riot. In one social media post she says, “I was there. I’m trying to figure out how I could be there all day and miss all this violence and destruction I’m seeing on tv. I think photos for the news were staged.” 

(Okay, nobody ever said these people weren’t delusional.) 

She adds, “I hope they come for me my videos will show the peace and the lies on the news.” 

Admittedly, she sounds rather harmless, albeit ill-informed. There doesn’t appear to be much other information about her. 

USA Today does describe Steele-Smith as “a long-time Trump supporter who attended a rally in Greenville North Carolina last July.” She also “posted photos on her Facebook account of the inside of the offices for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her staff during the Capitol riot.” 

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Kevin Strong: The alleged rioter is described as 6' 7'', and a QAnon supporter from California. No doubt he’s bummed that none of the “Q” prophecies came true on Jan. 20, and the Biden inauguration went off as planned. 

Strong works for the Federal Aviation Administration when he’s not on the lookout for cannibalistic pedophile liberals. 

According to KTLA Channel 5 News: 

The investigation began after someone told the agency that Strong “had been showing signs of behavioral changes over the last few months including stockpiling items and telling others to get ready for martial law, rioting, and protesting,” the FBI affidavit said.

 

The FBI was told that Strong had claimed World War III was going to occur on Jan. 6 and that the extremist group QAnon would cover the debt for a new truck he recently had purchased.

 

The FBI also was told that Strong had hung a flag at his home that said “WW1WGA,” which is a QAnon slogan standing for “Where We Go One, We Go All,” according to the affidavit.

 

FBI agents went to Strong’s home east of Los Angeles on Jan. 16 and seized two guns belonging to his uncle. 

 

According to the affidavit in his case, the defendant “adheres strongly to QAnon ideology, admitting to having ‘Q Clearance,’ and said he believed that “a new one-party system” called “the Patriot Party” was coming. 

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Jacob Lewis: The report on Strong (above), leads to another story from KTLA. A Victorville, California gym owner has also been charged with participating in the riot. According to this report, Lewis has defied lockdown orders several times during the pandemic. 

Now the lockdown he may face will have bars. 

According to one tipster, in December Lewis had shown them photos of firearms he allegedly possessed and inquired about how to buy ammunition, according to court filings. At the time, Lewis warned the person to “watch what happens to the Capitol January 6,” prosecutors said. 

According to the affidavit, on Jan. 8, F.B.I. agents received a tip that Lewis had flown to Washington, D.C. “to attack the Capitol along with many Trump supporters to stop the certification of the electoral college.” 

When questioned by agents at his home, Lewis admitted he was inside the Capitol Building, said that he had not participated in any violence, and, in fact – as far as facts go – “he believed that some individuals involved in agitating were Antifa members in disguise.”