By
Cory Shaffer, cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A correspondent for InfoWars, the far-right website that peddles debunked conspiracy theories and fringe political commentary, was arrested on Friday at a house in Portage County after a grand jury handed up a secret indictment charging her with robbery and domestic violence, according to officials.
Portage County Jail staff on Saturday confirmed that
Millicent “Millie” Weaver, 29, is being held on charges of robbery, tampering with evidence, obstructing justice and domestic violence. Her boyfriend, 45-year-old Gavin Wince, is also being held on the same charges.
Both are being held until a Monday morning arraignment hearing where a Common Pleas Court judge will set bond.
Calls to the Portage County Sheriff’s Office seeking information about the charges were not returned.
Weaver broadcast a portion of her arrest on social media. A deputy can be heard in the video telling her that a grand jury indicted her as he asked dispatchers to send another car to an address on Yale Road in Diamond, where records show Wince owns a home.
Weaver said in the video that she had no idea why she was being arrested, and that she was “about to break huge breaking news.”
The video has been shared thousands of times and has kicked off a host of conspiracy theories about the reason behind her arrest.
Weaver, who also creates videos under the moniker Millennial Millie, released a trailer last week of a new video that she claims “may be the biggest whistleblowing event to date.” The video appears to include interviews between Weaver and two people who claim to have first-hand knowledge of a clandestine attempt by government officials to use psychological warfare and mind-control tactics to carry out a “coup” against President Donald Trump, an iteration of the often debunked conspiracy theories about a so-called deep state.
InfoWars was founded by Alex Jones, a gravel-voiced ex-radio host who is known for advancing false claims including that the 2012 school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut was a hoax, and that a Washington D.C. pizza restaurant was the headquarters of a massive underground child sex-trafficking ring.
Jones dedicated his Friday show to discussing Weaver’s arrest, claiming, without providing any evidence, that she was arrested for stealing government documents.
Weaver, a former aspiring actress, joined InfoWars in 2012 and has increased her national profile. Her YouTube channel has more than
423,000 subscribers. Her Instagram account includes photographs of her inside the White House earlier this year, claiming that she was invited by “White House Staff” to tour the West Wing. Another photograph shows her sitting alongside Jones, fellow InfoWars correspondent Kaitlyn Bennett, who is known as the “Kent State gun girl,” and political operative Roger Stone at a December 2018 congressional hearing featuring the CEO of Google.
