Weeks after a January 6 defendant had gone missing ahead of his sentencing, federal agents discovered the Proud Boys member unconscious at his Florida home.
(Video: WINK News)
Following a May conviction, 52-year-old Christopher Worrell was scheduled to be sentenced in August with the prosecution seeking 14 years in prison for the Florida man’s actions at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Instead, a federal arrest warrant was issued Aug. 15 when he failed to show up.
Thursday, according to a release from the FBI, agents located the man at his East Naples, Florida residence where they found night-vision googles, $4,000 in cash and an array of survivalist gear within, as well as an unconscious Worrell.
“They discovered the 52-year-old unconscious and immediately provided medical attention. Worrell was transferred to an area hospital where he remains at this time,” the FBI’s Tampa office had confirmed Friday without providing further details.
WINK News spoke with neighbors in the area who confirmed that they saw “six or seven” undercover vehicles outside when the warrant was executed with the help of the Collier County Sheriff’s Office.
In November 2022, then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson had provided a number of details about Worrell’s case, included the fact that the 52-year-old suffered from a type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a point that led a judge to order him released from jail because he was not receiving proper medical care.
“In the time he was not getting treatment for being in Washington on January 6th,” said Carlson, “his cancer progressed from stage 1 to 3 which is a tragedy.”
Worrell’s fiancé Trish Priller had joined the host and explained, “He’s doing okay since he’s been home. He’s had some major medical issues. He’s had five rounds of chemotherapy. He’s had major oral surgery, which he’s still recovering from. He’s had two more bouts where he passed out and been unconscious, just like when he was in prison. High blood pressure and unexplained high pulse.”
Priller went on to assert, “the DC gulags made a statement that these guys and women that are in the prison are political prisoners. So they’re all being treated that way. Their food is being poisoned. Their recreation time is taken from them. They’re on solitary confinement. They’re just denied all kinds of basic human rights.”
On May 12, 2023, Worrell was found guilty of “assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon, obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress, and obstructing, impeding, or interfering with officers during the commission of 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, engaging in physical violence with a deadly or dangerous weapon all felonies, and an act of physical violence in the Capitol Grounds or Buildings, a misdemeanor.”
More succinctly, he was found guilty of using pepper spray gel on officers on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol.
A new date had not yet been scheduled for Worrell’s sentencing.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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