6 with her husband but does not appear to have entered the building. That woman, Marilyn Hueper, was on the grounds of the Capitol on Jan. Online sleuths identified the pair after the FBI raided the Alaska home of a woman it mistakenly thought was Mooney-Rondon. The government had sought 51 months in prison for Rafael Rondon and 46 months in prison for Maryann Mooney-Rondon. She was she was “scared” and went along with the laptop theft because it was the “easiest thing to do.” 6 photos and videos had been “cherry-picked” and suggesting that the man who stole Pelosi’s laptop was part of a broader scheme and that he was working with others who were similarly dressed. “If we had to do it all over, we would have just stayed home and watched from the safety of our living room,” she continued.īut when she finished her prepared statement and the judge asked her to explain what she was thinking when she decided to aid in the theft of Pelosi’s laptop, Mooney-Rondon pivoted, saying she thought Jan. “I have brought embarrassment to my family.” “I was the adult in the room, and I failed,” she said. USDCDCĪhead of her sentencing Wednesday, Mooney-Rondon called herself “a humbled woman” and asked the court for mercy. Maryann Mooney-Rondon and Rafael Rondon in Nancy Pelosi's office at the Capitol on Jan. How the heck that happened, I really don’t have a clue," she said. "I’m a very - generally - measured, calculated person. Mooney-Rondon said she had “a very bad lapse of judgment" on Jan. The man who took the laptop has not been arrested. The scene was captured in one of the many videos fellow rioters recorded on their smartphones. Mooney-Rondon, who owns a medical billing company, admitted that she helped a man who took the laptop, giving him gloves so he would not leave fingerprints behind. "I assisted him a little bit," Rafael Rondon said, "and that was probably stupid of me." He later told the FBI that he wished he had taken a photo of a rioter on the Senate dais, because "that s- was f-ing hilarious."īefore his sentencing, Rafael Rondon said that he would “never” engage in that type of behavior and that he was acting very immaturely. Rafael Rondon was previously sentenced to 14 months of incarceration after he pleaded guilty in federal court in New York to possession of an unregistered firearm after the FBI found an unregistered sawed-off shotgun when it searched the Rondons' home. “No offense.” She said she was giving them a “significant break.” Maryann Mooney-Rondon, left, and Rafael Rondon. “I just think that they were acting very stupidly,” Cobb said. “I’m not suggesting that you two are stupid or idiots,” she said, but she said they engaged in “juvenile” behavior. Both will be on probation for five years.Ĭobb said that it was a “difficult” case and that neither of the defendants were criminal masterminds. She described the sentence as “jail but at home” and said they would be confined to home 24/7. District Judge Jia Cobb sentenced Rondon to 18 months of home incarceration and Mooney-Rondon to 12 months of home incarceration. Before their identification, online sleuths had dubbed the pair “AirheadLady” and “AirheadBoy” because they emerged from the Capitol wearing stolen emergency escape hoods, which the duo subsequently admitted stealing.
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