A Virginia school board member who bragged about chugging Coors Light and Fireball in the US Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot was arrested Tuesday.
Miles Adkins, an elected member of the Frederick County School Board, was caught in multiple surveillance videos — and even pictures he shared with friends on social media — stomping around the breached grounds carrying a tall, silver “canned beverage,” according to an FBI affidavit.
He allegedly guzzled multiple alcoholic beverages as rioters smashed property and battled police during his hour and 15 minutes inside the Capitol.
“Let’s go get a beer, let’s go get a beer!” Adkins shouted as he left, investigators claim.
Adkins allegedly bragged about the boozy conquest just hours later in Facebook messages to an unknown individual, identified only as a member of the far-right Oath Keepers.
The person asked Adkins whether he was planning on heading back to Virginia around 10 p.m. — about seven hours after the school board member allegedly walked out of the Capitol.
“No, I still need to fight antifa,” Adkins wrote in response. “I’m getting food then fighting.”
“I drank fireball and a coors lite in the capitol.”
The Oath Keeper urged Adkins and others at the Capitol to “go out with a bang” and “don’t let it be for nothing.”
That’s when Adkins answered in agreement along with an N-word slur: “you know this.”
Adkins was charged with entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.
In interviews with investigators, the school board member admitted he traveled that morning to DC to hear then-President Donald Trump speak out against the 2020 election results, noting he had made the trip several times before “to act as an escort for persons associated with the Oath Keepers.”
Adkins told the FBI he walked with a large group to the Capitol but refused to talk about his actions inside the building, the affidavit states.
Surveillance footage, however, shows Adkins allegedly wandering through the building after walking through the breached Senate Wing Door.
He waved others in to follow him and helped at least two others climb through a broken window nearby, FBI investigators said.
Adkins allegedly spent the rest of his time walking through the Capitol holding a “large, canned beverage” — which he later proudly identified to friends as a Coors Light.
He did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The arrest does not mark the first time Adkins has landed himself in hot water.
Adkins, who was elected to the school board in 2021, faced calls for his resignation in June after he was charged with driving under the influence, as exposed by local outlet The Winchester Star.
