WASHINGTON — Shelly Stallings of Morganfield, Kentucky, pleaded guilty Wednesday to resisting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement officers with a dangerous weapon and other charges related to the Jan. 6 Capitol breach.
In a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice, Stallings and three others, sprayed pepper spray at a line of police officers trying to secure an area of the Capitol. The others, including her husband Peter Schwartz, have pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
The DOJ says they arrested Stallings Feb. 16, 2022 in Owensboro. She pleaded guilty to seven charges. The charges include five felonies: assaulting, resisting or impeding officers using a dangerous weapon; interfering with a law enforcement officer during a civil disorder; entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon and engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon. Stallings also pleaded guilty to a pair of misdemeanors: disorderly conduct in the Capitol Grounds and committing an act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds.
Stallings will be sentenced on Jan. 3, 2021. She faces a maximum of 20 years in prison on the charge of assaulting officers with a dangerous weapon and a maximum of 36 additional years for the other charges, as well as potential fines.
A federal district court judge will determine her sentence.
Stallings is one of 19 Kentucky residents charged in connection with the riot. Since the Jan. 6 breach, over 860 people have been arrested in almost all 50 states for crimes related to that day, including over 260 charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement.