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Thu Aug 31, 2023, 03:28 AM Aug 2023

Trump supporter indicted in Georgia charged with assaulting FBI agent in Rockville, Md.

Trump supporter indicted in Georgia charged with assaulting FBI agent in Rockville, Md.

by RUSS BYNUM Associated Press
Tue, August 29th 2023, 7:14 PM EDT

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (AP) — A Donald Trump supporter who surrendered to Georgia authorities Thursday on charges he conspired with the former president and other allies to overturn Trump's 2020 election loss is also facing federal charges that he assaulted an FBI agent in Maryland.

Harrison William Prescott Floyd turned himself in to the Fulton County jail in Atlanta a week after being indicted in the Georgia case alongside Trump and 17 others.

Court records show Floyd, identified as a former U.S. Marine who's active with the group Black Voices for Trump, was also arrested three months ago in Maryland on a federal warrant that accuses him of aggressively confronting two FBI agents sent to serve him with a grand jury subpoena.

An agent's affidavit filed in U.S. District Court says Floyd screamed, cursed and jabbed a finger in one FBI agent's face and twice chest-bumped the agent in a stairwell. It says Floyd backed down only when the second agent opened his suit coat to reveal his holstered gun.

The records don't disclose the purpose of the grand jury seeking Floyd's testimony. But he was served during the months that special counsel Jack Smith was calling witnesses before the federal grand jury that indicted Trump on Aug. 1 for trying to overturn his election loss.

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