An Arcata couple were arrested last week and charged with entering the U.S. Capitol during the violent protest on Jan. 6, 2021.
The case against Stacey Urhammer, 54, and Kris Cunningham, 53, brings to 17 the number of Northern Californians known to have been formally accused of offenses related to the Capitol breach.
A federal criminal complaint obtained by the Humboldt County news site Lost Coast Outpost said the two remained in the Capitol for 40 minutes and were not suspected of any violence or property destruction.
The charges are: disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; parading, picketing, and demonstrating in a Capitol building; and entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds.
The pair were arrested Sept. 6 during a predawn FBI raid on a home in Arcata’s downtown area.
The complaint, filed by an FBI agent, said the case against the couple was pursued after a tipster provided messages from Urhammer’s Instagram account in which she said she had entered the Capitol and that Cunningham went along “to protect her.”
Other defendants who remained only briefly in the Capitol have received sentences of two weeks or less in jail and/or community service.
As of this week, the U.S. Justice Department said more than 1,504 people have been charged with crimes related to the breach of the Capitol, including more than 560 charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement.
The longest sentence so far is 22 years, imposed against Henry “Enrique” Tarrio. He was not at the Capitol riot but was found guilty of seditious conspiracy because of his role as leader of the right-wing extremist group Proud Boys.
Last month, a California man — David Nicholas Dempsey, of Van Nuys — was sentenced to 20 years in prison for repeatedly attacking police with flagpoles and other makeshift weapons.
Following is the list of Northern Californians known to have been named in Jan. 6 cases, according to the Department of Justice.
SENTENCED (in order of length of sentence)
Sean Michael McHugh, 34, Auburn. Arrested May 27, 2021; found guilty in a bench trial and sentenced in September 2023 to 78 months in prison, $2,000 restitution and a $5,000 fine. He assaulted police officers with bear spray and helped other rioters push a large metal sign into officers.
Ricky Willden, 39, Oakhurst. Arrested June 30, 2021; pleaded guilty to assaulting, resisting or impeding law enforcement officers; sentenced in August 2022 to two years in prison and $2,000 restitution. He sprayed officers with a chemical irritant before entering the Capitol building.
Tommy Frederick Allan, 52, Rocklin. Arrested Jan. 22, 2021; pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding; sentenced in December 2022 to 21 months of incarceration, $2,000 restitution. An online tip on Jan. 9, 2021, alerted the FBI to statements on Facebook that implicated Allan. He was seen on video taking documents from the Senate chamber.
Jorge Riley, 43, Sacramento. Arrested Feb. 25, 2021; pleaded guilty to a felony charge of obstruction of an official proceeding and was sentenced in September 2023 to 18 months in prison and $2,000 in restitution. A week before the Jan. 6 demonstration, he posted on Facebook that he had bought “ninja throwing knives” and would be “going for the war.” He was part of a mob that pushed its way into the Capitol. At the time, Riley was the corresponding secretary of the California Republican Assembly and president of the Sacramento Republican Assembly; he lost both of those posts.
Patrick Bournes, 57, Santa Clara. Arrested Jan. 29, 2023; pleaded guilty to one count of civil disorder, a felony, and was sentenced in June 2024 to four months in prison, 24 months of supervised release with a period of home detention, and $2,000 in restitution. He is alleged to have been part of the “tunnel standoff,” pushing toward the police line and handing a police shield back through the crowd.
Daniel Goodwyn, 32, San Francisco. Arrested Jan. 29, 2021; pleaded guilty to entering and remaining in a restricted building; sentenced in May 2023 to 60 days incarceration and $500 restitution. Though arrested in Texas, he has been identified in media reports as a San Francisco tech worker. After his guilty plea, Goodwyn appeared on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show and asked viewers to donate money to him and other so-called “political prisoners.” He reportedly raised $25,000.
Brent Holdridge, 55, Eureka. Arrested Dec. 2, 2021, in Alameda County; pleaded guilty Aug. 4, 2022, to “parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building” and was sentenced to 60 days in jail and $500 restitution. At the time of the riot, he was supposed to be with his ailing mother in Louisiana, a visit for which he had been allowed to delay a four-month jail sentence for an unspecified criminal case in Humboldt County.
Mariposa Castro, 48, Gilroy. Arrested Jan. 31, 2021; pleaded guilty to “parading, demonstrating and picketing in a Capitol building” and was sentenced in February 2022 to 45 days in jail and a $5,000 fine. She entered the Capitol through a smashed window and posted videos from inside, in one declaring, “This is war.” She wrote a letter to the court apologizing for her “regrettable lapse in judgment.”
Kenneth Armstrong III, 51, Pescadero. Arrested Jan. 20, 2022; pleaded guilty to “parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building” and was sentenced in August 2023 to 14 days incarceration, 60 hours community service and $500 restitution. When interviewed by the FBI, the coastside business owner freely admitted attending the Jan. 6 demonstration and sent agents of a video he took of himself walking through the Capitol, according to the criminal complaint.
Daniel Shaw, 54, Santa Rosa. Arrested Dec. 3, 2021; pleaded guilty to “parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building” and was sentenced in March 2023 to 10 days in prison and $500 restitution. Shaw was in the Capitol rotunda for 14 minutes with his teenage son.
Valerie Ehrke, 53, Arbuckle. Arrested Jan. 19, 2021; pleaded guilty to “parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building” and was sentenced to 120 hours of community service and a $500 fine. She walked only about 15 feet into the Capitol and was back out within a minute. The FBI was tipped off by someone who saw videos on Ehrke’s Facebook.
ON THE RUN
Evan Neumann, 38, Mill Valley. He is on the FBI’s most wanted list, having been indicted on 14 counts related to the Capitol breach, including civil disorder and engaging in physical violence in a restricted building. He fled the United States in February 2021 and was believed to have gone to Belarus.
NO SENTENCE YET
Biao Qu, San Jose. Arrested June 28, 2023; accused of disorderly or disruptive conduct. When interviewed by FBI agents, he reportedly denied he had been in the Capitol.
Kyle Colton, 36, Citrus Heights. Arrested Dec. 15, 2023. The FBI began investigating Colton based on a tip from a passenger on a Jan. 7, 2021, Delta Airlines flight out of Washington, D.C. Court documents say video from inside the Capitol shows Colton “not obeying orders by the officers to leave the rotunda.” At one point, Colton allegedly grabbed a flagpole that was being used to assault an officer, wrested it away from the officer and gave it back to a rioter. Two months after his arrest in the Jan. 6 case, a federal grand jury charged him with receipt of child pornography.
Patrick Woehl, 50, Citrus Heights. Arrested Dec. 13, 2023. Video shows Woehl entering the Capitol as alarms were ringing, court records say. He was found guilty in June 2024 of four charges and is to be sentenced in September 2024.
Kris Cunningham, 53, and Stacey Urhammer, 54, Arcata. Arrested Sept. 6, 2024. The couple were allegedly inside the Capitol for 40 minutes. They are not accused of any specific acts of violence or destruction.
