ORLANDO, Fla. — Kevin Tuck, an officer with the Windermere Police Department, and his son Nathaniel Tuck, a former officer with the Apopka Police Department, were arrested Thursday in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol siege, according to their former employers.

Kevin Tuck will be charged with multiple crimes, including obstruction of an official proceeding; aiding and abetting; entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; and disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, Windermere Police Chief David A. Ogden said in a news release, attributing news of the coming charges to the FBI.

Meanwhile, Tuck's son Nathaniel, who formerly worked as an officer with the Longwood Police Department and the Apopka Police Department, also was arrested Thursday by the FBI, Apopka Police said in a news release but provided no other details of the arrest.

Kevin Tuck resigned effective immediately from the Windermere Police Department on Thursday after an interview with the FBI, that agency's news release said. He had been with the department since May 2019 and a full-time officer since October of that year. His disciplinary file includes no internal investigations, it said.

“We are disheartened by the arrest of Officer Kevin Tuck today by the (FBI) for charges stemming out of January 6, 2021 at the US Capitol Building,” Ogden said in the news release. “The Windermere Police Department (WPD) has worked tirelessly over the past eight years to build a reputation of serving with Honor, Integrity and Service to our residents and this arrest doesn’t reflect on the hard work of the men and women of the Windermere Police Department.”

Windermere, west of Orlando, is an Orange County town of about 3,500 people.

A June 2019 social media post from Chief Ogden introduced Tuck, its “newest Reserve Police Officer,” as a Chicago native who moved to Florida in 1996. He had been senior pastor for 14 years at Orlando's Lighthouse Church, the post said.

The post also mentioned Tuck’s son Nathaniel, at the time an Apopka police officer, whose wife works a school resource officer for the Longwood Police Department.

"She is not in trouble," a Longwood Police spokesman said.

Kevin Tuck worked as an officer for the Longwood Police Department from November 2011 to May 2017. He resigned in good standing, the spokesman told Spectrum News 13 on Thursday. Nathaniel Tuck worked as an officer there from May 2012 to March 2018 and also resigned in good standing, the spokesman said. 

Kevin and Nathaniel Tuck became at least the 54^th and 55th arrests in Florida in connection with the Capitol siege, according to a Spectrum News review of a U.S. Justice Department online compilation of Capitol breach cases. Dozens of those arrests have come in Central Florida and Tampa Bay.

The Jan. 6 attack, by Donald Trump supporters who sought to overturn the November election of President Joe Biden, ultimately led to the deaths of seven people, including three law enforcement officers, according to a U.S. Senate report on the incident. The Justice Department cites “approximately 140” assaults on police officers. The siege followed a rally in which Trump urged supporters to go to the Capitol.

The Windermere Police Department said it initiated contact with the FBI on Jan. 11, five days after the Capitol siege, “to offer our transparency and full cooperation,” the news release said. That came after an officer had "brought his concerns" to the department.

The next day, the department’s command staff asked Tuck to address “several concerns,” the release said.

Tuck didn’t let his supervisor know that he would be attending the event, and he denied being inside the Capitol that day, Chief Ogden wrote. Tuck said “he was never close and simply attending a political rally,” Ogden said.

“There was no indication that any illegal activity occurred by Officer Kevin Tuck at that time from our initial inquiry,” Ogden said in the news release.

Yet on July 7, the FBI told Ogden that it was planning for Tuck’s arrest, Ogden said.

"It saddens all of us in the law enforcement community to see criminal charges brought forward of any misconduct involving a police officer," Ogden wrote in the news release.

Nathaniel Tuck worked as a full-time police officer for the Apopka Police Department from March 2018 to August 2020, then served as a reserve officer until mid-September 2020, the department said in a news release.

“Mr. Tuck was not employed by the Apopka Police Department at the time of the incident that led to his arrest,” the news release said. “The Apopka Police Department became aware of the FBI’s investigation of Mr. Tuck and cooperated with their investigation.”