Franklin County Woman, pardoned to January 6, convicted in deadly drunk driving

On January 31, 2025By Littum

Franklin County, Mo. – Emily Hernandez, a Franklin County woman who was pardoned after her bond to January 6, 2021, uprising at the US Capitol, was convicted on Wednesday in connection with a drunken driving power.

Hernandez was sentenced to 10 years in prison in connection with a deadly crash in January 2022, According to St. Louis Post-Dispatch and several other reports.

Says investigators Hernandez, 22 years old at the time of the crash, was behind the wheel and drove the wrong way on the eastbound I-44 in a Volkswagon Passat as it hit the front of a buick enclave. The enclave was pushed into the median and hit cable barriers.

A passenger in the enclave, 32-year-old Victoria Wilson from St. Clair, Missouri, died in the crash. Hernandez was later arrested for driving while drunk, resulting in death.

Hernandez was caught on the camera Keeps nameplate on the then speaker Nancy Pelosi In a photo from January 6, 2021, uprising at the US Capitol.

After the January 6 -Events, Hernandez was sentenced to 30 days in prison with one year monitored release. She was pardoned by US President Donald Trump last week.

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