FBI Raids Home Of Ex-Evanston Township High School Football Star

EVANSTON, IL — The home of a former Evanston Township High School football star was raided by what he described as more than a dozen heavily armed FBI agents last week in North Hollywood. Now an actor and conservative activist, the former running back was seen inside the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6.

Siaka Massaquoi led the Wildkits to an undefeated regular season back in 1997. That year, he was named the player of the year by the News-Gazette and homecoming king at ETHS, according to past reports.

Massaquoi, 41, continued his football career in college with a scholarship to play at the University of Iowa. But following an arrest on second-offense drunken driving and other traffic offenses, he was booted off the team during his senior year.

Since then, he has appeared in a series of short films and television programs, according to the Internet Movie Database, including "Comedy Bang! Bang!", "Lethal Weapon", "S.W.A.T.", "NCIS: Los Angeles" and "Ratched."

The actor also appeared at a "Save the Children" rally associated with the QAnon conspiracy theorist community last September and at an anti-vaccine protest that led to a brief closure of the gates to the Dodgers Stadium mass COVID-19 vaccination site in January.

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Massaquoi confirmed the early morning raid in a video posted to social media. There had been more than 20 federal agents armed with "assault rifles," he said.

"It just sucks," Massaquoi said. "Because, as pleasant as most of them were, I just think they're still following orders."

Livestreamed videos from the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump appear to show Massaquoi just inside one of the doors to the building.

The search warrant executed by agents Thursday remains sealed, and Massaquoi has not been arrested or charged.

He did not immediately respond to a request for comment but has denied wrongdoing in social media posts.

"I did nothing wrong on the 6th," he said in a social media video. "They can paint something as wrong. I did nothing violent."