Christopher Worrell addressing Collier County commissioners at their April 26 meeting, calling himself a "political prisoner."
President-elect Donald Trump said during his first on-air interview after the election that he would pardon those rioters who participated in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol on "Day One."
USA TODAY reports that Trump made the claim during his Dec. 8 "Meet the Press" interview, adding that, "I'm going to look at everything. We're going to look at individual cases."
Trump told moderator Kristen Welker that he planned to issue the pardons "very quickly," starting on his first day in office which begins Jan. 20.
The Department of Justice has identified more than 1,200 people linked to the Capitol breach.
According to authorities, one of the co-defendants with Southwest Florida ties, Lin Marie Carey, 56, told investigators she learned through social media groups that busses were being organized to go to Washington, D.C., for the Trump rally.
On Jan. 6, 2021, after Trump's reelection loss, a riot of his supporters, including Carey, stormed the U.S. Capitol, authorities say. The mob hoped to prevent Congress from counting electoral college votes and keep then-President-elect Joe Biden from power.
Below is an overview of the Southwest Florida defendants arrested, charged or sentenced linked to the Capitol breach.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth announced the prison sentence, followed by three years of supervised release.
Worrell was accused of pepper-spraying law enforcement officers, among other crimes. He was a member of the Proud Boys group. Worrell has self-identified as a member of the "Hurricane Coast Zone 5" chapter the Proud Boys, which is a neofascist white nationalist extremist organization established in 2016.
He was convicted for his part in the Capitol riots on May 12.
Prosecutors had asked for a more severe sentence -- 14 years -- and an increased fine for Worrell, saying he deserves harsher punishment after he fled and then faked a drug overdose as a "delay tactic."
A sentencing memorandum indicated Worrell, who had been released while awaiting trial and then sentencing, cut off his monitoring ankle bracelet in a Walmart parking lot on Aug. 14, four days before his sentencing date.
A jury convicted him Sept. 27, 2022, on five counts -- obstruction of an official proceeding and aiding and abetting; remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building and grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.
Strand was arrested Jan. 18, 2021, in California and indicted Feb. 5 of that year. The U.S. Department of Justice said he is from Naples
Lin Marie Carey
Carey, of Naples, was arrested in March on felony and misdemeanor charges related to her conduct during the breach of the U.S. Capitol.
According to court documents, Carey is charged in a criminal complaint filed in federal court in the District of Columbia with felony obstruction of an official proceeding; a misdemeanor offense of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; a misdemeanor offense of disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; and a misdemeanor offense of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, parading, picketing, and demonstrating in a Capitol building.
The FBI arrested Carey in Naples. Her trial is scheduled to begin April 22.
Zachary Pearlman
The FBI arrested Zachary Pearlman, 26, of Naples, in October on charges in a criminal complaint filed in the District of Columbia with felony offenses of assaulting; resisting; or impeding certain officers and obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder.
Pearlman is charged with misdemeanor offenses of entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds; disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a capitol building or grounds; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.
According to court documents, Pearlman, who was at the opposite end of the room, turned from a conversation he was having with other members of the crowd to watch the officers push rioters in the Rotunda toward a nearby exit. Instead of moving toward an exit or leaving the area, Pearlman walked toward the police line. He worked his way through the crowd, pushing past other rioters until he was at the front of the crowd, facing off with the police.
Naples Daily News and News-Press archives contributed to this report.