Christopher Worrell biography: 13 things about US Capitol riot suspect from Naples, Florida

Christopher John Worrell is an American man from Florida, United States. He was born in New York, USA but he lived in a Trish Priller’s house in Naples, Collier County, Florida.

In Worrell’s Facebook account, he indicated that he and Trish Priller are in a relationship. A registered Republican, he is a supporter of 45th U.S. president Donald Trump.

Worrell is 6’3″ tall and his registered weight is 275 pounds. Here are 13 more things about the Naples resident:

1. On June 15, 2009, he was arrested for impersonating an officer after trying to get Danielle Bower, then 23, to pull over for running a red light by following her and pulling up to her on U.S. 41 East and Guilford Road in Naples. When he was arrested, he had a fake badge, a loaded handgun, handcuffs, knives and boxes of ammunition.
2. In May 2010, he was charged with impersonating a law enforcement officer and sentenced to three years probation and two years of community control.
3. He is a member of the Proud Boys, which was founded in September 2016.
4. With a canister clipped to his vest, he went to the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., USA on January 6, 2021. That day, Trump’s supporters breached the building while a joint session of Congress was certifying the vote of the Electoral College and affirming Joe Biden‘s victory in the 2020 presidential election.
5. On January 18, 2021, a Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent interviewed him and asked if he had participated in the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. Agitated that the FBI was at his house, he admitted that he was at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 but emphasized that he neither entered the U.S. Capitol building nor committed criminal conduct. He also said the “Proud Boys were not a racist white supremacist group like the media tries to portray”.
6. On March 10, 2021, U.S. Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey signed a criminal complaint filed against him by an FBI agent.
7. On March 12, 2021, FBI agents arrested him on Stanhope Circle in Naples at a home that belongs to Priller. For his participation in the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, he was charged with entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, knowingly impeding or disrupting the orderly conduct of government business, knowingly engaging in any act of physical violence against a person or property in any restricted building or grounds, using or carrying a deadly or dangerous weapon in relation to his violations and willfully and knowingly uttering loud, threatening or abusive language or engaging in disorderly conduct at any place in the grounds or in any U.S. Capitol buildings with the intent to impede, disrupt or disturb the session of Congress or either House of Congress.
8. In October 2021, a judge substantiated his civil-rights complaints about his treatment in the jail.
9. On April 9, 2021, he was indicted.
10. On April 15, 2023, he pleaded not guilty to all counts of charges filed against him.
11. In November 2021, he was released from jail in Washington and was placed under house arrested.
12. On August 15, 2023, a federal arrest warrant was issued for his arrested.
13. He was 52 years old when he disappeared on August 18, 2023. He is supposed to be sentenced on August 25, 2023 in federal court in Washington.

If you have information about someone who participated in the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, call 1-800-CALL-FBI. You may also submit relevant photos and videos to the FBI.