The Kentucky man who prosecutors say stole then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s laptop from her office during the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol has been arrested in the case.
David Slinker is believed to have taken Pelosi’s laptop with the help of other rioters that day from the Speaker’s Conference Room and stashed it in his backpack before he left the conference room and exited the Capitol building, authorities said.
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Slinker was arrested on Oct. 29 on misdemeanor charges of trespassing, impeding or disrupting the orderly conduct of government business, and disorderly conduct. He was not charged with the theft of the laptop, which authorities have not found, and said a search of Slinker’s home in 2023 didn’t turn it up.
Slinker was allegedly among the first group of rioters in the conference room that day, according to recently unsealed court documents .
On a table was Pelosi’s Hewlett-Packard 640 G5 laptop — with a sticky note with possible handwritten computer passwords affixed to it, court documents said.