(Kellye SoRelle, who worked as a Cameron County Asst. District Attorney from 2011 to 2017 – three of those years under DA Luis V. Saenz's Children Protective Services unit with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services – was charged with four felony charges for conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding. Over that time with the DA's Office, Saenz came to depend on SoRelle and the CPS section to protect children and families and remove them from abusive situation.
"Whenever we had a CPS issue, we knew we could count of Kellye to protect kids and take care of the kids," Saenz said. "That's why it threw us for a loop to hear she had been arrested for her participation in the January 6 insurrection. All of us are stunned to hear that. Sometime after she left us in 2017, something went wrong."
After her husband Jeremy left the DA's staff, SoRelle followed. Saenz said the couple had later split after they moved to Granbury, about 20 miles southwest of Fort Worth in North Texas.)
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A former Cameron Counry Assistant District Attorney who resigned and them moved to North Central Texas ty join the leader of the Oath Keepers and stormed the U.S. Capitol January 6, has been sentenced to prison for urging defendants to delete their cell phones and computers of incriminating evidence.
Kellye SoRelle, 46, was sentenced to 12 months behind bars on Friday. She pleaded guilty in August to felony obstruction of justice and misdemeanor trespassing in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection, in which supporters of Donald Trump violently breached the Capitol building as Congress was set to certify President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.
According to prosecutors, SoRelle, along with Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, entered restricted Capitol grounds at around 2:12 p.m., just as the initial violent breach of teh Capitol building was underway.
“As she entered the restricted area, SoRelle live-streamed a video to Facebook, expressing her support for the actions of the rioters and urging others not to be afraid,” the DOJ said in a statement. “She described the scene as one of the ‘coolest damn things’ she had ever witnessed and framed the riot as a necessary step to prevent the United States from descending into communism and tyranny. SoRelle continued to document the riot over Facebook live-stream as she moved around the Capitol building with Rhodes and the other Oath Keeper affiliate.”
Prior to that, at around 1:30 p.m., SoRelle had messaged an Oath Keepers group that called itself the “Leadership intel sharing secured” group, saying: “We are acting like the founding fathers — can’t stand down. Per Stewart, and I concur.”
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, who also oversaw the case against Rhodes – with whom SoRelle was romantically involved at the time of the Jan. 6 attack – told SoRelle that her offenses were indeed grave.
“What you were trying to cover up, and what you were encouraging others to cover up, is among the most serious conduct Americans can engage in,” Mehta told SoRelle at Friday’s sentencing, according to local CBS affiliate WUSA reporter Jordan Fischer. “Sedition.”
Mehta, a Barack Obama appointee, also reportedly told SoRelle that her actions “shocked the conscience,” considering that she was a lawyer who used her status to promote Rhodes’ increasingly violent rhetoric, and that the consequences of her actions reached well beyond her.
“People listened,” Mehta said, according to WUSA. “People listened. And there are people sitting in jail today because of that. Whose lives have been ruined.”
Rhodes was convicted in Nov ember 2022 of seditious conspiracy and ultimately sentenced by Metha to 18 yes behind bars. SoRelle had announced in January 2022 that she was the acting head of the militia-style group after Rhodes' arrest earlier that month.
On Jan. 6, after the violence at the Capitol had ebbed, SoRelle and Rhodes joined other Oath Keepers members for what prosecutors described as a “celebratory dinner.” However, that dinner was apparently cut short when that group “received word that law enforcement was either arresting or searching for individuals involved in the Capitol attack,” prosecutors said. SoRelle and the others left the restaurant and retrieved their things from their hotel before regrouping at a nearby gas station.
At that point, Rhodes turned off his cellphone, apparently afraid of being tracked by law enforcement, and gave it to SoRelle, who took it. SoRelle then conveyed messages on the messaging app Signal to Oath Keepers members and affiliates on behalf of Rhodes using her own phone. She urged Oath Keepers members to scrub their devices of evidence that they participated in the deadly riot, which resulted in multiple deaths and force lawmakers and staff to either flee the Capitol or shelter in place for several harrowing hours.
“Please delete any information you’ve posted regarding the DC op and your involvement,” SoRelle wrote to the group in the days after Jan. 6 “This thread will be deleted when possible.”
She also relayed instructions from Rhodes, who had turned off his phone to avoid being tracked, to “clean up all your chats,” prosecutors say.
“YOU ALL NEED TO DELETE ANY OF YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT WHO DID WHAT,” she also wrote, explaining that only the comment authors could delete their posts. According to the Justice Department, members of the Oath Keepers “complied” with these instructions, “deleting messages, photographs, and videos from their devices that could serve as evidence of their participation in the Capitol attack.”
Mehta also sentenced SoRelle to 36 months of supervised release and ordered her to pay $2,000 in restitution toward the estimated $2/8 million in damage and losses to the Capitol. His sentence is closer to the government’s request of 16 months behind bars than to SoRelle’s own request to be sentenced to time served plus probation, court records show.
In addition to the obstruction of justice charge, SoRelle was also originally charged with conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and obstruction of an official proceeding, a widely-used charge that the Supreme Court ruled in June 2024 was wrongly applied to accused Jan. 6 rioters.
As Law&Crime has previously reported, Mehta deemed SoRelle mentally incompetent to stand trial in JuUne 2023 following her September 2022 arrest. She was restored to competency in February 2024.
According to prosecutors, SoRelle, along with Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, entered restricted Capitol grounds at around 2:12 p.m., just as the initial violent breach of teh Capitol building was underway.
“As she entered the restricted area, SoRelle live-streamed a video to Facebook, expressing her support for the actions of the rioters and urging others not to be afraid,” the DOJ said in a statement. “She described the scene as one of the ‘coolest damn things’ she had ever witnessed and framed the riot as a necessary step to prevent the United States from descending into communism and tyranny. SoRelle continued to document the riot over Facebook live-stream as she moved around the Capitol building with Rhodes and the other Oath Keeper affiliate.”
Prior to that, at around 1:30 p.m., SoRelle had messaged an Oath Keepers group that called itself the “Leadership intel sharing secured” group, saying: “We are acting like the founding fathers — can’t stand down. Per Stewart, and I concur.”
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, who also oversaw the case against Rhodes – with whom SoRelle was romantically involved at the time of the Jan. 6 attack – told SoRelle that her offenses were indeed grave.
“What you were trying to cover up, and what you were encouraging others to cover up, is among the most serious conduct Americans can engage in,” Mehta told SoRelle at Friday’s sentencing, according to local CBS affiliate WUSA reporter Jordan Fischer. “Sedition.”
Mehta, a Barack Obama appointee, also reportedly told SoRelle that her actions “shocked the conscience,” considering that she was a lawyer who used her status to promote Rhodes’ increasingly violent rhetoric, and that the consequences of her actions reached well beyond her.
“People listened,” Mehta said, according to WUSA. “People listened. And there are people sitting in jail today because of that. Whose lives have been ruined.”
Rhodes was convicted in Nov ember 2022 of seditious conspiracy and ultimately sentenced by Metha to 18 yes behind bars. SoRelle had announced in January 2022 that she was the acting head of the militia-style group after Rhodes' arrest earlier that month.
On Jan. 6, after the violence at the Capitol had ebbed, SoRelle and Rhodes joined other Oath Keepers members for what prosecutors described as a “celebratory dinner.” However, that dinner was apparently cut short when that group “received word that law enforcement was either arresting or searching for individuals involved in the Capitol attack,” prosecutors said. SoRelle and the others left the restaurant and retrieved their things from their hotel before regrouping at a nearby gas station.
At that point, Rhodes turned off his cellphone, apparently afraid of being tracked by law enforcement, and gave it to SoRelle, who took it. SoRelle then conveyed messages on the messaging app Signal to Oath Keepers members and affiliates on behalf of Rhodes using her own phone. She urged Oath Keepers members to scrub their devices of evidence that they participated in the deadly riot, which resulted in multiple deaths and force lawmakers and staff to either flee the Capitol or shelter in place for several harrowing hours.
“Please delete any information you’ve posted regarding the DC op and your involvement,” SoRelle wrote to the group in the days after Jan. 6 “This thread will be deleted when possible.”
She also relayed instructions from Rhodes, who had turned off his phone to avoid being tracked, to “clean up all your chats,” prosecutors say.
“YOU ALL NEED TO DELETE ANY OF YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT WHO DID WHAT,” she also wrote, explaining that only the comment authors could delete their posts. According to the Justice Department, members of the Oath Keepers “complied” with these instructions, “deleting messages, photographs, and videos from their devices that could serve as evidence of their participation in the Capitol attack.”
Mehta also sentenced SoRelle to 36 months of supervised release and ordered her to pay $2,000 in restitution toward the estimated $2/8 million in damage and losses to the Capitol. His sentence is closer to the government’s request of 16 months behind bars than to SoRelle’s own request to be sentenced to time served plus probation, court records show.
In addition to the obstruction of justice charge, SoRelle was also originally charged with conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and obstruction of an official proceeding, a widely-used charge that the Supreme Court ruled in June 2024 was wrongly applied to accused Jan. 6 rioters.
As Law&Crime has previously reported, Mehta deemed SoRelle mentally incompetent to stand trial in JuUne 2023 following her September 2022 arrest. She was restored to competency in February 2024.
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Los enfermitos are going to be pardoned. There are lots of loonies out there. Cuidate de un loco/loca. Yikes!🫨
Article from The Right Scoop:
Kamala Harris suddenly admitted today that January 6th, 2021 was not an insurrection on the US Capitol, which is a stark reversal from what she and other Democrats have been saying for years.Kamala and Democrats failed at destroying President Trump, so now the truth finally comes out and it’s just a riot. Like it always was…
Video on front page.
Trump is also going to revoke the security clearance of those 51 intel officials who signed on paper, that bidens laptop was Russian disinformation during the previous elections. Time to clean house trump.
Another news network is going to be paying up Trump for defamation too. MAGA 😉
Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies like Putin; then he suddenly transforms into a sniveling sidekick instead.
Well look at this, some scared people begging Biden.
Biden has pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, using the extraordinary powers of his office in his final hours to guard against potential “revenge” by the incoming Trump administration.
Mr. Remdesivir fuck your kidneys up fauci. Then Mr. I too want to understand white rage Milley. Then the Jan 6 SeLeCt cOmMiTtEe, who Nancy Pelosi selected. Who Liz Cheney was caught altering testimony and crying kinzinger.and mind you it was so bad the GOP censored them both. Some one is scared and it ain’t Trump. MAGA
The January 6th insurrection is old news. The American people don’t care of the most harped upon incident by democrats. If Biden can pardon Fauci for crimes he has yet to be charged with I don’t see why this lady can’t be pardoned as well. Fauci in my personal opinion is a liar and was involved in working with Chinese scientists in the development of COVID! Something that Biden never investigated. WHY?
Way to lead by example
She was arrested for simply protesting. No big deal at all.
Oh, go fuck yourself, you insipid infidel!!!
Trump will pardon your biological father - a dog - for your birth.
Dip your head in a tub of hot oil.
What’s a matter, truth hurts. 🤣.. DEEZ NUTZ fucking loser. Year of MAGA. Enjoy. I’m gonna rub in your mother fucking face as a reminder bitch.
😜, get ready. 4 years of this shit is coming. MAGA. President Donald J. Trump the 47 president of these United States Of America.
They wanted to take over the country. This has been done by soldiers in other countries. It was a rebellion, overthrow the government but it lacked the guns and ammunition and the right leaders to accomplish it. The employees saved the boxes with the ballots and that is how they saved the USA. The congress people were hiding and the secretaries were running with the boxes to store them and protect them. Only in America.
Way to lead by example! Huh.. fuck that , what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. That’s bullshit bud and you know it.
Who cares about this woman. She was a lawyer, right? Hmm.
The punishment is not enough for this stupid racist bitch. She should be hung in front of a courthouse.
she's a gringa another gringo or wanna be white mescan will give another good job FACT
Man, I wonder if she regrets going on social media! And if all of those locos ever would have done those sad and crazy things at the capitol without it. QAnon, youtuve, facebook, twitter, tiktok these sites rotting Americans brains! Marching into the US Capitol with a Confederate flag what a bunch of crazy ass losers. When I was growing up, we thought Michael Jackson was peak crazy. Until this. Useful idiots and dangerous idiots for a stupid cause, but how did they find these wacko ideas, online?
Pardons coming soon Montoya.
Convicted on Friday and pardoned on Monday! Nice.
Papi Trump just forgave em all
Aki no paso nada
gringos PENDEJOS
Here comes round 2 of the tRump regime. In round 2 he’s now and always will be a convicted felon. Lol!
SHE'S A GRINGA WHAT YOU MESCAN EXPECT. THEY ALL GET AWAY WITH MURDER
And the American people said fuck you, we want 47 (House, Senate & popular vote) Trifecta. MAGA 🤚🖕🤣
What to expect when a democrat judge and monkey court? Anyway, she'll be pardoned!
Full pardons granted. The judge can eat shit and die, Montoya. Time to prosecute the cockroaches, I mean the FBI.
lol. You people. MAGA!! Lolololol
If January 6th were the other way around where the Democrats had caused the insurrection, the RepbliCONS would never stop bitching about it and it would never be old news. But since it was the white trash maga RepubliCONS that did the insurrection then its old news.
Always hatred from democrats. Why? What are some of you so afraid of? Losing all your social service benefits?
Get over your low self esteem. Everyone's is out to get you because your a Mexican? Really? So where did all the Mexican professional come from?
Why even have a judicial system? BOTH sides can override a decision made by a jury of their peers. The Supreme Court lacks ethical standards. America presented itself as a beacon of democracy and freedom. Setting the standards
for impartial rule of law. We’re spiraling towards our demise like the Roman
Empire.
Black lives matter rioters weren't prosecuted and neither were the antifa rioters. The law wasn't applied evenly. The law was applied selectively and vindictively based on political persuasion. Comprendes Mendez?
all they had to do was to turn the electricity off.
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