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Glenn Wes Lee Croy Criminal Complaint
Glenn Wes Lee Croy Criminal Complaint
STATEMENT OF FACTS
Investigation and is presently tasked with investigating criminal activity on the U.S. Capitol
obtained from other agents, witnesses, and agencies; and my training and experience. This
affidavit is intended to show merely that there is sufficient probable cause for the requested
warrant. It does not set forth all of my knowledge, or the knowledge of others, about this matter.
3. The U.S. Capitol is secured 24 hours a day by U.S. Capitol Police. Restrictions
around the U.S. Capitol include permanent and temporary security barriers and posts manned by
U.S. Capitol Police. Only authorized people with appropriate identification are allowed access
inside the U.S. Capitol. On January 6, 2021, the exterior plaza of the U.S. Capitol was also closed
4. On January 6, 2021, a joint session of the United States Congress convened at the
United States Capitol, which is located at First Street, SE, in Washington, D.C. During the joint
session, elected members of the United States House of Representatives and the United States
Senate were meeting in separate chambers of the United States Capitol to certify the vote count of
the Electoral College of the 2020 Presidential Election, which had taken place on November 3,
2020. The joint session began at approximately 1:00 p.m. Shortly thereafter, by approximately
1:30 p.m., the House and Senate adjourned to separate chambers to resolve a particular objection.
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Vice President Mike Pence was present and presiding, first in the joint session, and then in the
Senate chamber.
5. As the proceedings continued in both the House and the Senate, and with Vice
President Mike Pence present and presiding over the Senate, a large crowd gathered outside the
U.S. Capitol. As noted above, temporary and permanent barricades were in place around the
exterior of the U.S. Capitol building, and U.S. Capitol Police were present and attempting to keep
the crowd away from the Capitol building and the proceedings underway inside.
6. At such time, the certification proceedings were still underway and the exterior
doors and windows of the U.S. Capitol were locked or otherwise secured. Members of the U.S.
Capitol Police attempted to maintain order and keep the crowd from entering the Capitol; however,
shortly after 2:00 p.m., individuals in the crowd forced entry into the U.S. Capitol, including by
breaking windows and by assaulting members of the U.S. Capitol Police, as others in the crowd
7. Shortly thereafter, at approximately 2:20 p.m. members of the United States House
of Representatives and United States Senate, including the President of the Senate, Vice President
Mike Pence, were instructed to—and did—evacuate the chambers. Accordingly, the joint session
of the United States Congress was effectively suspended until shortly after 8:00 p.m. Vice
President Pence remained in the United States Capitol from the time he was evacuated from the
8. During national news coverage of the aforementioned events, video footage and
photographs which appeared to be captured on mobile devices of persons present on the scene
depicted evidence of violations of local and federal law, including numerous individuals inside the
U.S. Capitol building without authority to be there, individuals seeking to disrupt the
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Congressional proceedings that day, individuals forcibly assaulting, resisting, and impeding the
U.S. Capitol Police and associated Metropolitan Police Department officers, especially those
gaining entry through violent assaults, individuals entering the offices of Congressional
Representatives and at least one Senator (such as Speaker of the House Nany Pelosi and Senator
Jeff Merkley), individuals damaging and/or stealing property, and otherwise engaging in
9. Glenn Wes Lee Croy (“Croy”) is one individual who entered the U.S. Capitol
Messenger, Croy and an individual hereinafter referred to as “Witness 1” discussed the Capitol
riots. In the course of this Facebook Messenger conversation, Croy told Witness 1, “I was there,”
and sent Witness 1 a picture of himself and another individual inside the U.S. Capitol Building
standing in front of an Abraham Lincoln bust statue. This photograph is pasted below this
paragraph. Witness 1 provided this information to the FBI and identified Croy as “Wes Croy” in
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10. The individual on the left of the above photograph has been identified by law
11. The FBI has confirmed with the U.S. Capitol Police that the bust statue Croy and
Lindsey are standing by appears to be located inside the U.S. Capitol Building. It is titled “Lincoln
the Legislator” and rests, according to the Architect of the Capitol’s website, in or near the Small
12. Croy’s Facebook profile display name is “Wes Croy”. Open source research
identified the user ID of Croy’s Facebook account as 100000907014713. Croy’s Facebook profile
picture is a picture of a bronze statue of Baphomet. In the Facebook message screenshots provided
by Witness 1, the profile picture is the same Baphomet statue with the profile name “Wes Croy”.
Additionally, the FBI viewed a Colorado driver’s license photograph of Croy that was taken in
2019. The individual in the official driver’s license photo appears to be the same individual who
is standing on the right in the photograph taken in front of the Abraham Lincoln statue.
photograph, Croy also sent Witness 1 videos from inside and outside the Capitol Building. The
inside videos show at least one other individual dressing up a statue with a hat and glasses, with
other statues already dressed up, and the crowd of people inside the Capitol. The outside video is
14. As part of the investigation, the FBI obtained body camera footage from the
Metropolitan Police Department that appears to show Croy inside the Capitol Rotunda.
Screenshots from this body camera footage are pasted below this paragraph, with Croy indicated
by a red marking.
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15. Witness 1 advised that Croy also had a Twitter account by the name “Croy Wes”
and/or “LSD”. Open source research identified an account in the name of “LSD @croy_wes”. On
December 27, 2020, LSD @croy_wes made a reply tweet to Colorado Congresswoman Lauren
Boebert. Boebert Tweeted, “Who is going to be in DC on January 6th to stand with President
Donald Trump?” to which LSD @croy_wes replied, “fellow Coloradan we will be there.” It now
appears that both the Twitter account “LSD @croy_wes” and Facebook account “Wes Croy” have
been deleted.
associated with the following basic subscriber information: name of Glenn Croy, Google Account
09/07/2016. Open source records indicate that Croy is associated with phone number (719) 360-
8764.
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17. According to records obtained through a search warrant which was served on
Google, a mobile device associated with [email protected] was present at the U.S. Capitol
on January 6, 2021. Google estimates device location using sources including GPS data and
information about nearby Wi-Fi access points and Bluetooth beacons. This location data varies in
its accuracy, depending on the source(s) of the data. As a result, Google assigns a “maps display
radius” for each location data point. Thus, where Google estimates that its location data is accurate
to within 10 meters, Google assigns a “maps display radius” of 10 meters to the location data point.
Finally, Google reports that its “maps display radius” reflects the actual location of the covered
18. Terry Lynn Lindsey, date of birth XX/XX/XXXX, is another individual who
entered the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021. On January 7, 2021,
the day after the above-described events, the FBI received a tip, via its online platform at
tips.fbi.gov, that Lindsey was involved in the January 6, 2021 breach of the Capitol. The provider
of the tip (hereinafter referred to as “Witness 2”), who has met Lindsey, gave photographs to the
FBI of Lindsey apparently in the Capitol and holding an American flag in proximity to others.
Judging by their angle and closeness to his person, the photographs appear to have been taken by
Lindsey. Witness 2 obtained the photographs from a close contact, who had access to one or more
close contacts of Lindsey. Witness 2’s tip also included a screenshot of a Facebook profile
associated with Lindsey (the “Lindsey Profile”), which is in the name “Terry Lindsey”. The FBI
searched for and identified the Lindsey Profile using the screenshot.
19. Records from Facebook show that the Lindsey Profile is in the name of Terry
Lindsey, with (937) 538-8427 as the verified telephone number provided by the Lindsey Profile
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holder. Per open-source research, that telephone number is associated with Terry L. Lindsey, date
of birth March 28, 1967. The FBI believes this phone number is a historical number, previously
assigned to and/or used by Lindsey. Records obtained from Sprint indicated the number was
subscribed to another person as of April 8, 2020. A cursory review of open source, Ohio Bureau
of Motor Vehicle records, and commercial databases, did not reveal a link between Lindsey and
the current subscriber. The profiles of Lindsey and Croy were “friends” on Facebook prior to the
20. In addition, the FBI obtained official photographs of Terry Lynn Lindsey, date of
birth XX/XX/XXXX. One photograph was from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles and dated
May 5, 2015, their most recent photograph of Lindsey. A second photograph was a police
photograph of Lindsey dated December 12, 2019. The FBI compared these two photographs to
the photographs associated with the online tip and the Lindsey Profile. The individual in the
official and police photographs appeared to be the same as that in the photographs associated with
the online tip and Lindsey Profile, and the FBI believes the individual in all the aforementioned
21. Review of the Lindsey Profile revealed photographs, posts, and commentary
evidencing Lindsey’s participation in the January 6, 2021 breach. For example, on January 4,
2021, the following post appeared on the Lindsey Profile: “Going to D.C. anyone I know going
give me a shout out.” Further posts to the Lindsey Profile from January 5, 2021, subsequently
informed others of Lindsey’s apparent location along the way, stating, “Just hit West Virginia”;
“Just got to Pennsylvania”; and “In Maryland”. These posts to the Lindsey Profile are pasted
below.
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22. On January 6, 2021, various photographs were posted to the Lindsey Profile,
ostensibly taken by Lindsey and near the Capitol among a crowd consistent with the events of that
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23. At approximately 3:38 p.m., another photograph of Lindsey was posted to the
Lindsey Profile with the caption, “Inside the Capitol”. The photograph is indoors in surroundings
consistent with the Capitol, next to the “Lincoln the Legislator” bust described above. In this
photograph, Lindsey held an American flag and stood next to another individual who was also
holding some type of flag and wearing Trump-branded clothing. This post is pasted below, along
with a post to the Lindsey Profile bearing a substantially similar or identical photograph with a
caption, “Notice how peaceful we were inside the Capitol. Don’t believe the news we didn’t start
shit”. Lindsey is the man standing on the left in the photographs, and the FBI believes Croy is the
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24. Lindsey and Croy also appeared in a video placing them in a building that appears
consistent with the Capitol, among a crowd that appears and sounds consistent with the events of
January 6, 2021. The video was originally posted to the social-media site Parler. It was
subsequently published online by an open-source investigative journalism site, at which the FBI
viewed it, as part of a chronological compilation of footage posted to Parler on or about January
6, 2021.
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25. The Metropolitan Police Department body camera footage described above that
captured Croy also briefly captured Lindsey inside the Capitol Rotunda. A screenshot from the
body camera footage is pasted below, with Lindsey indicated by a red oval.
26. Lindsey posted to the Lindsey Profile the night of January 6, 2021 as follows: “To
all yens who don’t like what happened today you are being brainwashed .i was there it was good
until the D.C. police”. This post from the Lindsey Profile is pasted below, in redacted form to
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27. Finally, Lindsey posted several suggestions that he traveled to Washington, D.C.
and entered the Capitol Building with at least one other person. In addition to the aforementioned
photographs and video footage with Croy, Lindsey, in the comments section of the aforementioned
January 4, 2021 post that stated “Going to D.C. anyone I know going give me a shout out.”,
responded to a question of when he was traveling by writing, “Leaving Dayton in the a.m. not
ncoic just pax.” Another FBI agent has informed me that “ncoic” is an abbreviation for non-
commissioned officer in charge, a leadership position within the military, and “pax” is military
slang meaning passenger and/or person. Also, at approximately 11:08 p.m. on January 6, 2021,
Lindsey posted, “All I know is my D.C. roommates snoring like I don’t know what.”
28. Based on the foregoing, your affiant submits that there is probable cause to believe
that Croy and Lindsey each violated 18 U.S.C. § 1752(a)(1) and (2), which makes it a crime to (1)
knowingly enter or remain in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority to do so;
and (2) knowingly, and with intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government
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