WASHINGTON — An elected member of a Virginia school board —who allegedly bragged about drinking Fireball and Coors Light in the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack and said he was in touch with a member of the far-right Oath Keepers that day — was arrested by federal authorities on Tuesday.
Miles Adkins, a member of the Frederick County School Board in Virginia, faces four misdemeanor charges: entering and remaining in a restricted building; disruptive conduct in a restricted building; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and unlawful picketing in a Capitol building. Court records show that Adkins was scheduled to make his first appearance in a federal courtroom in Charlottesville on Tuesday.
He did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NBC News.
“I drank fireball and coors lite in the capitol,” Adkins wrote in a message after the attack, according to an FBI affidavit. As he left the Capitol building, he was also captured on video yelling, “Let’s go get a beer, let’s go get a beer!”, the FBI said.
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Adkins was elected to the school board in 2021. He faced calls for his resignation in June after the Winchester Star reported he had been charged with driving under the influence. The Northern Virginia Daily noted that Adkins had been identified as a Jan. 6 rioter by online “sedition hunters” in 2022.
The FBI said that Adkins spoke with the bureau prior to his arrest but would not speak about his alleged actions inside the Capitol. The FBI said Adkins admitted that he “had traveled to Washington, D.C. a few times prior to January 6, 2021, to act as an escort for persons associated with the Oath Keepers” in November and December of 2020 and that he “communicated with an Oath Keeper on January 6, 2021, through the Signal cellular phone application.”
Members of the Oath Keepers were convicted of…
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