CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A Conover, North Carolina, couple pleaded guilty to felony charges for their role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, the Justice Department announced this week.
Dale Jeremiah Shalvey, 38, and his wife, 37-year-old Tara Aileen Stottlemyer, were among three people who pleaded guilty Monday to obstruction of an official proceeding for their actions at the Capitol during the riot in January of 2021. Shalvey also pleaded guilty to assaulting, resisting or impeding law enforcement officers.
Court documents claim the couple and a third person, identified as 38-year-old Katharine Morrison of Dansville, New York, went to Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6 and illegally entered Capitol grounds. Shalvey walked to a bike rack that was being used as a barricade outside the Capitol and threw something at a Metropolitan police officer.
About 20 minutes later, prosecutors said Shalvey, Morrison and Stottlemyer made their way into the Capitol through the Senate Wing door and went to various areas inside, including the Rotunda and the Senate Chamber. All three took photos of documents that were in and on desks in all of those rooms.
Shalvey is also accused of taking and destroying a letter written by Sen. Mitt Romney that was intended for former Vice President Mike Pence. The trio left the Capitol shortly after 3 p.m., court documents allege.
Shalvey was arrested on March 9, 2021, in Washington, D.C. He faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for obstructing an official proceeding and up to eight years on the charge of assaulting, resisting or impeding officers.
Stottlemyer was arrested on Sept. 14, 2021, in Conover. She and Morrison each face up to 20 years in prison for obstruction of an official proceeding and the charges also carry potential fines.
All three defendants are scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 20, 2023.
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