By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Authorities are currently engaged in a search for a member of the Proud Boys, an extremist group, who has disappeared just days before his scheduled sentencing in a Capitol riot case. Prosecutors in the case are seeking a prison sentence of more than a decade for Christopher Worrell, aged 52 from Naples, Florida. The warrant for his arrest was made public on Friday.
Worrell was found guilty of using pepper spray gel on police officers during the mob’s storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, as Congress was certifying Joe Biden’s presidential victory. The judge had been asked by prosecutors to sentence Worrell to 14 years. However, the sentencing was postponed, and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest on Tuesday, with the U.S. attorney’s office for Washington, D.C., asking the public for help in locating him.
Following his release from jail in Washington in November 2021, Worrell had been on house arrest in Florida. This came after a judge upheld his civil-rights complaints about how he had been treated in jail, finding that his medical treatment for a broken hand had been delayed. D.C. jail officials were held in contempt of court.
Worrell’s attorney, William Shipley, has chosen not to comment on the matter. Neither the phone numbers listed for Worrell nor the woman who was named as his custodian during his house arrest are currently operational.
Federal authorities have identified more than three dozen people involved in the Capitol siege as leaders, members, or associates of the Proud Boys, an extremist group whose members describe it as a politically incorrect men’s club for “Western chauvinists.” In May, former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and three other members of the group were convicted of seditious conspiracy.
Since the January 6 riot, approximately 1,000 individuals have faced federal charges. Of those, over 600 have pleaded guilty or been convicted, either through trials decided by a jury or judge. More than half of those sentenced have received terms of imprisonment ranging from three days to 18 years.
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