DOJ charges 'Pink Beret' Jan. 6 rioter IDed after an ex spotted her in a viral FBI tweet

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

WASHINGTON — A woman who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 while wearing a pink beret and was recently identified to the FBI by an ex-romantic partner was charged with four federal counts on Monday.

As NBC News first reported, Jennifer Inzunza Vargas Geller of California was identified by an ex and reported to the FBI after she was featured in a viral tweet from the bureau last month. She now faces four misdemeanor counts: entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building; disorderly conduct in the Capitol grounds or buildings; and unlawfully parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. She was not in custody on Monday, a law enforcement source said, but there's now a warrant out for her arrest.

For more than two years, online sleuths who identified hundreds of participants in connection with the Jan. 6 attack had been unable to determine Vargas Geller's identity, and the woman they'd dubbed #PinkBeret had been the subject of online conspiracy theories. An attorney for another Jan. 6 defendant suggested she was working at the behest of the government.

But last weekend, a clothing designer Vargas Geller used to date was standing in the checkout line at a Joann Fabric and Crafts store when his buddy showed him a funny tweet from the FBI's Washington Field Office on his phone.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/government-charges-pink-beret-jan-6-rioter-ided-ex-spotted-viral-fbi-t-rcna83339

[Cattledog]

1. When your girlfriend starts reading "Mein Kampf"

it's time to get out.

[brush]

2. That's a pretty vivid photo of her at the link. She fu_ked around found out.

She probably thought long ago that she was home free since it's been over two years ago.

They finally got her.

Hahahahahahaha!

[Cha]

4. Yep.. I bet she was Properly Shocked.

[ancianita]

8. ...

They finally ID'd her but they haven't got her.

[brush]

9. You don't think they'll find her? Not me. She'll probably turn herself in...

as they know who she is now, who her family and connections are, where she works, lives.

She can run but she can't hide forever.

She reminds me of that little skank who accused the young, black kid of stealing her phone a couple of years ago. IIRC she turned herself in too. It's not easy to run from LEOs all over looking for you.

[niyad]

20. Please find another word.

[ShazzieB]

21. Lots of photos of her, from a variety of angles.

That one is particularly vivid; add in the others and it gets really easy to i.d. someone.

[Skittles]

3. HAHAHA

I hope she has been shitting bricks this entire time

[Thunderbeast]

5. Cutest lil' convict in the prison!

Buh Bye!

[IronLionZion]

6. Everyone involved is so weird

why would those MAGAts take orders from a well dressed woman in a pink beret waving a stick? As if she's some MAGA commander or something.

[Oneironaut]

16. She's dressed like a Nintendo game bad guy from the Soviet Union.

Apparently moose and squirrel were in the Capitol that day?

[IronLionZion]

17. Carmen Sandiego or Emily In Surrection (Emily in Paris)

[ancianita]

7. So she's still at large. Good luck finding her, FBI.

She was not in custody on Monday [today, May 8], a law enforcement source said, but there's now a warrant out for her arrest.

[localroger]

10. I doubt they'll have much trouble finding her

These people aren't the sharpest tools in the drawer, and unless she's left the US it's very hard to live here for any length of time without dropping all kinds of hints about your identity. People who do it more than a week or two tend to be found camping in remote wooded areas.

[brush]

11. Come on. See post 9. She's probably figuring out the best way to turn nerself in.

[ancianita]

12. lol and hope you're right. But not if she's left the country by now. Ever consider that?

[IronLionZion]

13. That's a myth perpetuated by way too many movies

law enforcement extradites people wanted for crimes in the USA all the time. Interpol is specifically designed for law enforcement agencies to collaborate to catch international fugitives. Local law enforcement would make the arrest and turn her in to the US FBI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpol

[ancianita]

22. I hear you. I'm aware. She's been successful so far in evading the law, but yes, now

that she's ID'd she'd have to totally change her appearance -- shave her head, tan herself, which she might -- to further buy time.

[brush]

14. Not likely. She just found out, like everyone else, that she was finally ID'd.

It's very expensive to disrupt your like and be on the run for months. She probably thought she was one of the lucky ones out thousands who rioted and haven't been ID'd.

Now her luck has run out.

[FakeNoose]

15. Screenshots

[FailureToCommunicate]

18. Wow! That is some fashionable military gear! She sure stood out in that mostly camo crowd !

[yonder]

19. She should've grew a beard.

[The Jungle 1]

23. Now that is a mic drop.