On the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack, the FBI captured three former Polk County residents who had been fugitives: siblings Jonathan and Olivia Pollock and their friend, Joseph Daniel Hutchinson III.
The FBI executed three federal arrest warrants early Saturday morning at a ranch in Groveland, the agency said in a brief news release. The FBI said it was offering no further details about their capture at this time.
The three are scheduled to appear in federal court in Ocala on Monday, the release said.
The Pollocks and Hutchinson traveled to Washington D.C., along with at least two others from Polk County, to attend the “Stop the Steal” rally organized by former President Donald Trump and his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021. During the event at the Ellipse, Trump repeated his false claims that he had won the 2020 presidential election and urged his supporters to march to the U.S. Capitol and pressure members of Congress not to certify Joe Biden’s election as president.
Jonathan Pollock, now 24, was the first to become a fugitive. He had fled by the time FBI agents executed arrest warrants at his family’s property in the Kathleen area, north of Lakeland, early on June 30, 2021. Olivia Pollock, now 33, was present and taken into custody.
Agents also arrested Hutchinson, a former Lakeland resident who had moved to Georgia after the attack on the Capitol. Hutchinson, now 27, had previously worked in a North Lakeland gun store operated by Gabe Pollock, Olivia and Jonathan’s brother, court records indicate.
Both Olivia Pollock and Hutchinson were released on bond while awaiting trial. In March 2023, just days before both were scheduled to appear at trials in Washington, D.C., they disabled their ankle GPS monitors, the Department of Justice said. A judge issued a bench warrant for them, and the FBI added the pair to their list of Jan. 6 fugitives.
The FBI first issued a “wanted” poster for Jonathan Pollock in 2021, advising that he should be considered armed and dangerous. The agency offered a reward of up to $30,000 for information leading to Pollock’s arrest and conviction.
“Pollock is believed to have friends and family throughout central and north Florida, as well as in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas,” the poster reads. “He is a welder and ironworker, by trade, and may be working in this, or similar construction jobs.”
The FBI also warned on posters that Olivia Pollock and Hutchinson should be considered armed and dangerous.