Marilyn owns the inn with her husband, Paul Hueper.

“That still doesn’t explain why you’re in my home. Or in Homer, Alaska,” she replied.

The scene played out in a little coastal town known as “the cosmic hamlet by the sea” at the southern end of the Kenai Peninsula on April 28. But the story begins thousands of miles away in Washington, D.C., nearly four months earlier, when Trump supporters entered the Capitol on Jan. 6 in a protest gone awry.

The FBI identified Marilyn Hueper as the woman seen interacting with a laptop taken from Pelosi’s desk that day. The FBI said in its application for a warrant it “confirmed the woman in photograph’s [sic] 225 A and B was MARILYN HUEPER by comparing MARILYN HUEPER’s Driver License photograph.”

But it looks as if the agency made a mistake.

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The Huepers did visit Washington on Jan. 6. They listened to then-President Donald Trump’s speech on the Washington Mall along with thousands of others. They then found themselves at the back of a long and peaceful procession, got lost, bought a hot dog, and ultimately did not come within a hundred yards of the Capitol’s entrance.

The FBI thought it had positively identified Marilyn Hueper when it compared surveillance footage in the Capitol to the couple’s social media posts. Investigators noted a resemblance between a yet-to-be-identified woman and Marilyn Hueper. The two both wore black coats but different layers, accessories, and jewelry.

During the raid, the agents claimed they had identified Marilyn as the woman in question and demanded information about her accomplices. When she pointed out the obvious differences between the suspect and herself and demanded to see a warrant, they grew angry.

“What we’re hearing is that you don’t want to cooperate, that you want us to report back that you’re lying to federal agents, and that you are obstructing justice,” Marilyn Hueper recalls them saying.

At one point, she grabbed a photo the agents brought with them and held it up to her face.

“Me. Her. Me. Her,” she said.

Apart from the differences in dress, Marilyn Hueper noted, the other woman has detached earlobes, while she does not. The agent took back the picture and walked away.

The FBI is calling the incident “a court-authorized law-enforcement activity,” rather than a raid. But that “activity” certainly seemed a lot like a raid to the Huepers and their guests.

Speaking to KSRM’s The Bird’s Eye View, Paul Hueper recalls waking up to find several guns pointed at him and his wife.

“It was a little alarming when I turned around the corner. Our home is attached to our business,” Paul Hueper told Rose Unplugged on WJAS 1320 AM. “They came in through the business and knocked on the kitchen door.”

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When the Huepers didn’t answer because they were asleep, agents broke down the door.

“We had six or seven loaded guns pointed at us,” Marilyn added. “They chained us up in handcuffs and held us captive for multiple hours.”

According to the Huepers, the agents interrogated them and repeatedly refused to present a search warrant until the raid ended. They took phones, laptops, and a pocket copy of the Declaration of Independence. They even had Paul Hueper open his gun safe, which he did reluctantly. When Marilyn Hueper asked to see identification, two agents quickly flashed their badges. When she asked to examine their credentials more closely, they flatly refused and put them away.

Just how the FBI identified the Huepers, albeit incorrectly, is the most intriguing aspect of this story.

According to court documents, the Huepers “first came to officials’ attention this year when Alaska Airlines in February banned the couple for refusing to wear masks on a flight.”

That raises a question: Does not masking on airlines put one on a watchlist shared among law enforcement agencies? Documents obtained by Yahoo News recently revealed the U.S. Postal Service is doing something in this vein.

In a hitherto covert surveillance effort, the law enforcement arm of the Postal Service scours social media sites in search of “inflammatory” posts and shares that information across government agencies. Analysts reportedly take an interest in everything from pro-Trump messages to anti-lockdown posts.

But if the FBI believed it positively identified the Huepers, it’s most likely because people who knew them reported the couple to the authorities.

An affidavit filed in support of the search warrant references an individual identified only as “witness 1.” That individual “provided a copy of an Instagram post made by Paul Hueper, which appears to show Marilyn approaching the capitol steps wearing the same coat and purse as the woman sought by the FBI,” according to NBC-affiliate KTUU-TV.

As of now, the Huepers haven’t been charged with any crimes, and the FBI has returned their cellphones. However, authorities are still holding Marilyn Hueper’s laptop. The couple wants to be as public as possible with their story.

“I better go online and protect myself before they call me in and make me this person,” Marilyn Hueper said.

All signs point to the conclusion the authorities indeed blundered into the wrong home, but the FBI and Capitol Police Department remain tight-lipped about the incident — though the former group did promise the couple a new door.

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However, a little home improvement won’t do much to assuage fears of unhinged policing and surveillance efforts that may come, mistakenly or not, barreling through one’s front door.

Pedro L. Gonzalez is a senior writer at American Greatness and a columnist at Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.