“A Republican Queens district leader was arrested for taking part in the Capitol riots last month, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Phillip Grillo, 46, was arrested by the FBI on Monday and was charged for storming the halls of congress during the Trump-incited siege on Jan. 6 that left a police officer and several rioters dead. Grillo, a Queens district leader in the 24th District, is a vocal Trump supporter. He wore a Trump pin in photos and called the district he led ‘Trump’s Hometown District’ on his Facebook. His shocked mother heard about the news of her son’s arrest on a phone call with the Daily News Tuesday. ‘I’m his mother. I don’t know anything about this,’ Eileen Grillo told The News. ‘I couldn’t get in contact with him I knew something was wrong.'”

“Grillo said she knew that her son was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan.6, but she was not aware that he took part in the riots or entered the building. ‘He loves all that Republican stuff, but that’s not his whole character,’ she said, noting he has a son. Grillo was identified by a Knights of Columbus jacket he was wearing inside the building, federal prosecutors said. He was identified by two people who saw him on CNN coverage of the riots, both of whom said that they’d known him for decades in Glen Oaks, Queens. Grillo was caught on camera climbing through a broken window to gain access to the U.S. Capitol building around 2:20 p.m.. He then moved all over the Capitol building wearing the Knights of Columbus jacket that said ‘Glen Oaks’ on it. He took videos of himself and carried a megaphone with him, prosecutors said” – NY Daily News.