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News Articles
- 2 local women arrested, charged by FBI for connection to Capitol riot
- Hudson woman found guilty on charges related to Capitol attack
- Hudson woman gets 11 months in prison for role in Jan. 6 riot
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Criminal History
In 2019, Niemela entered a bar/restaurant, already intoxicated, and yelled racial slurs. “When asked to leave, Ms. Niemela’s behavior escalated.” The bar/restaurant’s owner forced her outside and locked the establishment’s door to prevent Niemela from re-entering. In the process, Niemela pushed another individual. Police arrested Niemela and charged her with disorderly conduct, to which she later pleaded guilty. Niemela’s then-fiancée, who arrived on scene after police, reported that Niemela “is aggressive when she is intoxicated . . . frequently causes issues [at that same bar/restaurant and] . . . has a problem with authority.”
In 2012, police charged Niemela with simple assault after she and a group of women got into an argument with another woman at a club, followed up later that night by walking to the woman’s house, and confronted her. There, outside the woman’s house, Niemela assaulted the victim while another woman restrained the victim’s hands and arms. Police observed that the victim was bleeding from her nose and mouth when they arrived on scene. The case was later dismissed for lack of prosecution.
Niemela was arrested again for violent behavior in May 2021 after trying to fight security personnel at a hospital. Niemela, who appeared to be intoxicated, entered the hospital and provided names of two different patients she was there to see; neither was on the hospital’s patient list. When hospital staff informed Niemela that she needed to put on a mask, “she became belligerent and shouted vulgarities” but eventually complied. Niemela’s temper reignited when hospital staff asked her if she knew where she was going. Niemela launched into a torrent of profanity and a tirade “about the effectiveness of masks and vaccines.” Hospital security eventually had to remove Niemela from the building and restrain her until police arrived. Ultimately, the case was resolved by being “placed on file without finding and good behavior for one year.”
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