CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A Posen man and a Naperville woman are the latest to have been charged with taking part in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C.
David Wiersma and Dawn Frankowski were named in a federal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia. They were both charged with disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building, among other charges.
According to charging documents, David Wiersma and Dawn Frankowski drove with a third person to Washington on Jan. 5 to take part in President Trump’s rally. While Wiersma and Frankowski went with the crowd to the Capitol and are seen in photos inside the Capitol, the man who was with them did not go.
The FBI said a longtime co-worker of Wiersma’s, at PCI Energy Center in Lake Bluff, blew the whistle on him, calling the National Threat Operations Center after seeing Wiersma’s posts on Facebook admitting he’d gone into the Capitol for about 30 minutes.
The Facebook post said in part, “We went to the rally and were lucky enough to get within 20 rows of the stage. From there we marched to the Capitol where we joined the protest inside. From what we know and experienced two people were shot one fatally. Many were tear gassed. We only experienced a little of that. Spent about 30 minutes inside and got out before the swat team went in.”
On that same Facebook post, Wiersma was asked how it got started. He replied, in part, saying, “It was staged by ANTIFA, BLM and Capitol police. The police moved barricades and encouraged people to go in. There are videos and I spoke with people. By the time we got there it was like going to the shopping mall. People talking and with police just coming and going. If I had thought anytime we were in danger we would have left.”