--- title: See the Moment FBI Agents Arrested Roger Stone description: Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, was arrested Friday in connection with the special counsel's Russia investigation. canonical: https://time.com/5513027/roger-stone-arrest-fbi/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-01-25T13:40:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T01:10:36.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: See the Moment FBI Agents Arrested Roger Stone og:description: Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, was arrested Friday in connection with the special counsel's Russia investigation. og:url: https://time.com/5513027/roger-stone-arrest-fbi/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb5b77d1d8539fe49/698943fc97cdff8ebc6b739d/roger-stone-indicted.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies Before House Judiciary Committee og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See the Moment FBI Agents Arrested Roger Stone twitter:description: Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, was arrested Friday in connection with the special counsel's Russia investigation. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb5b77d1d8539fe49/698943fc97cdff8ebc6b739d/roger-stone-indicted.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See the Moment FBI Agents Arrested Roger Stone by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Updated: Dec 13, 2023 1:10 AM UTCPublished: Jan 25, 2019 1:40 PM UTC  Longtime informal adviser to President Trump Roger Stone speaks to cameras outside a hearing where Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified before the House Judiciary Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on December 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. Longtime informal adviser to President Trump Roger Stone speaks to cameras outside a hearing where Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified before the House Judiciary Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on December 11, 2018 in Washington, DC.Alex Wong—Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Updated: Dec 13, 2023 1:10 AM UTCPublished: Jan 25, 2019 1:40 PM UTC Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, was arrested Friday in connection with the special counsel’s Russia investigation. Stone [faces a seven-count indictment](http://time.com/5512984/roger-stone-arrested-mueller/), with charges including obstruction, witness tampering and making false statements related to his contacts with WikiLeaks, the organization responsible for the release of hacked Democratic emails in the 2016 presidential election. FBI agents took Stone into custody from his home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on Friday morning. [CNN video](https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/01/25/roger-stone-arrest-play-by-play-shortell-vpx.cnn) footage of the FBI arresting Stone shows a group of agents approaching his home. After a knock, one agent says, “FBI. Open the door,” before adding, “FBI. Warrant.” FBI agents are currently working without pay, and many are furloughed due to the partial government shutdown. Following the arrest, Trump questioned why CNN was on hand to film the arrest. “Who alerted CNN to be there?” he tweeted. CNN producer David Shortell said on air that a camera crew had been staked out at Stone’s home because CNN journalists noticed “unusual” grand jury activity in Washington, D.C., that led them to believe a raid on Stone’s might be imminent. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1088832908494888961) > [](https://twitter.com/NewDay/status/1088779742755651586) > [](https://twitter.com/CNNPR/status/1088844502775799808) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5513027/roger-stone-arrest-fbi/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5513027/roger-stone-arrest-fbi/"},"headline":"See the Moment FBI Agents Arrested Roger Stone","datePublished":"2019-01-25T13:40:33.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T01:10:36.000Z","description":"Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, was arrested Friday in connection with the special counsel's Russia investigation.","url":"https://time.com/5513027/roger-stone-arrest-fbi/","keywords":["Russia Investigation","Courts","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb5b77d1d8539fe49/698943fc97cdff8ebc6b739d/roger-stone-indicted.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb5b77d1d8539fe49/698943fc97cdff8ebc6b739d/roger-stone-indicted.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies Before House Judiciary Committee","caption":"Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies Before House Judiciary Committee","creditText":"Alex Wong—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/russia-investigation/","name":"Russia Investigation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5513027/roger-stone-arrest-fbi/","name":"See the Moment FBI Agents Arrested Roger Stone"}}]}] ```