‘I’m not breaking anything. This is our house’: Woman who claims she was ‘sucked into’ the Capitol on Jan. 6, then spent 40 mins wandering around inside, is arrested

Sandra "Sandy" Lee Hodges appears in photographs, circled in yellow by the Department of Justice, accompanying a statement of facts from the FBI after she was charged in Washington, D.C. on four counts related to her activity inside of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021./Bottom: An Instagram photo tracked down by the FBI shows her "standing amid the chaos" bottom right redTrump hat, blue jacket and white sweater according to court records.

Sandra “Sandy” Lee Hodges appears in photographs, circled in yellow by the Department of Justice, accompanying a statement of facts from the FBI after she was charged in Washington, D.C. on four counts related to her activity inside of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021./Bottom: An Instagram photo tracked down by the FBI shows her “standing amid the chaos” bottom right red Trump hat, blue jacket and white sweater according to court records.

A woman who allegedly roamed the Capitol on Jan. 6 for 40 minutes, was caught on video by a Proud Boy livestreamer and then spotted on Capitol surveillance footage making her way into multiple rooms — including hideaway offices of U.S. senators — all while clutching a Coca-Cola before she left to disrupt police overwhelmed outside, has been arrested.

But Sandra “Sandy” Lee Hodges wanted the FBI to know during her interview with them last April, she was “swallowed by the crowd” and “sucked into the building,” an FBI statement of facts reviewed on Thursday by Law&Crime shows.

Hodges faces four criminal charges including entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and parading, picketing or demonstrating in a Capitol building. An arrest warrant was issued on Jan. 26 in Hertford, North Carolina, and she was arrested Thursday.

All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

For the North Carolina woman, it was a series of errors that helped investigators identify her.

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