A Lehigh County woman was sentenced Wednesday for her role in the 2021 Capitol riots in Washington, D.C.

Kelly O’Brien of North Whitehall Township was sentenced to 90 days in jail, 12 months of supervised release, $500 restitution and a $1,000 fine.

O’Brien was arrested on Aug. 18, 2021. According to court documents, on Jan. 14, an online complaint was submitted to the FBI Tip Line by a person who saw a video posted on Jan. 6, 2021, via Facebook Live, on Kelly McFadden O’Brien’s Facebook account from inside the U.S. Capitol building.

Other videos were posted leading up to the event. O’Brien could be heard narrating the videos, and she appeared to be at the U.S. Capitol event by herself.

O’Brien was standing underneath the inauguration stage/scaffolding as she stated that she was with the crowd, asked viewers to “Pray for us,” and appeared to be gathering the courage to move forward.

A witness identified O’Brien on video, standing in a group of people, and saying, “we’re getting gassed and rubber bullets. We’re under Joe fake Biden Inaugural steps that he was supposed to be the fake president in. We’re probably about 20 feet to 40 feet from the Capitol doors. Some really brave patriots here. I’m right in the thick of it, following them up. … I am in the front line, not the front line, but not too far back.”

She later posted, “I’m out. I’m safe. Someone may have trashed a certain speaker of the houses office. But I will never tell who.”

Authorities said O’Brien checked into Phoenix Park Hotel, which is located four blocks from the U.S. Capitol, on Jan. 6, and checked out Jan. 7, 2021. Surveillance showed her wearing a white coat and gray backpack, which matches footage inside the Capitol.

On March 30, 2021, the FBI executed a search warrant at O’Brien’s residence.

During the search, O’Brien’s husband advised that the white winter coat she was wearing on Jan. 6 was hung in the main floor powder room with her purse, which contained a canister of bear spray/pepper spray.

Apparently after Jan. 6, 2021, the bear spray went off, contaminating the powder room and lower level of the house. The pepper oil of the spray was all over the walls in the powder room and ruined the white coat.

O’Brien then threw the white coat away, and her husband repainted the powder room.

The rioters used bear spray to attack officers at the scene on Jan. 6.

The FBI seized O’Brien’s cellphone, which was the same device that Google records identified as having been inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

There were no text messages before February 2021 on O’Brien’s phone, although the FBI was able to locate videos and photographs near the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, on her cellphone.

In one of these videos, the Capitol is visible in front of O’Brien as she films the rioters.

O’Brien states words to the effect of “to give you a little perspective, this was all barricaded, and patriots have stormed the Capitol, broke down the barriers and there are men with guns up there, so I’m thinking I might stay a little bit back.”

Several social media posts before Jan. 6 talk about the election and the trip to the Capitol.

On Dec. 19, 2020, O’Brien posted: “CALLING ALL PATRIOTS! Be in Washington D.C. January 6th. This wasn’t organized by any group. DJT has invited us and it’s going to be ‘wild’.”

She was initially charged with entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.

On Jan. 5 of this year O’Brien pleaded guilty to entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds.