ABOVE: Steven Miles, screenshot via Lucas Entertainment (L) and FBI warrant exhibit/Los Angeles Blade.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced April 13 that a Florida man, Steven Miles, 39, from Zephyrhills was arrested by FBI agents. In a 24-page warrant, the department charged him with multiple criminal counts relating to his role in the January 6 insurrection.
LGBTQ political blogger and editor Joe Jervis published April 14 that the the Str8UpGayPorn blog had revealed that Miles was a gay-for-pay porn actor with the New York -based adult film company Lucas Entertainment using the stage name “Sergeant Miles.”
In the FBI’s redacted warrant, agents described the brown-bearded Miles as present inside the U.S. Capitol wearing a red “Make America Great Again” baseball hat, navy gloves, camouflage pants, a backpack, tan boots, and a tan camouflage jacket with a patch bearing his surname on his left sleeve.
The warrant had multiple photographic exhibits, some were taken from Capitol building security video. Miles is seen wearing a black shirt reading “Trump 2020 F** Your Feelings” and a backpack along with black fingerless gloves.
Miles was charged with assaulting police officers, destruction of federal property, vandalism to federal property and other crimes connected to his actions on January 6.
“At approximately 2:12 p.m., U.S. Capitol CCTV footage depicts individuals banging on the Senate Wing Door and the windows on either side of the door with their fists and other blunt items, including planks of wood and a U.S. Capitol Police riot shield,” the FBI’s affidavit states.
“Within one minute, rioters successfully smashed in a window on one side of the Senate Wing Doors and unlawfully entered the U.S. Capitol Building. A handful of people entered the building through the broken window and opened the Senate Wing Door. They were the first to breach the interior of the Capitol. Meanwhile, other rioters, including Miles, continued to smash the window on the other side of the Senate Wing Door.”
Miles was charged alongside with a Louisiana man Matthew LeBrun, a 33-year-old from New Orleans who faces only misdemeanor charges.
Miles is allegedly a member of both the violent far-right groups ‘Oath Keepers’ and the Proud Boys that as noted by the website ‘Sedition Tracker,’ which has been tracking those who participated in the events during the Capitol Insurrection, was allegedly providing ‘security’ for the Oath Keepers that day. Although the FBI charging affidavit does not specify the group that Miles was with, in one photo exhibit he is seen attacking the line of Capitol Police officers guarding the West Front of the Capitol.
