WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday ruled in favor of a former police officer who is seeking to throw out an obstruction charge for joining the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. The justices in a 6-3 vote on nonideological lines handed a win to defendant Joseph Fischer, who is among hundreds of Jan. 6 […]
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Jan. 6 rioter caught in a woman’s Bumble dating app sting sentenced to prison
WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump supporter who assaulted law enforcement officers with bear spray and a metal whip — and who was arrested thanks to a woman’s sting operation on the dating app Bumble — was sentenced to just over six years in prison on Wednesday. Andrew Taake was arrested in 2021 and pleaded guilty […]
Jan. 6 rioter caught in a woman’s Bumble dating app sting sentenced to prison
WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump supporter who assaulted law enforcement officers with bear spray and a metal whip — and who was arrested thanks to a woman’s sting operation on the dating app Bumble — was sentenced to just over six years in prison on Wednesday. Andrew Taake was arrested in 2021 and pleaded guilty […]
Jan. 6 rioter who attacked cops lashes out at Trump-appointed judge after 12-year sentence
WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump supporter who attacked officers during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol while wearing a “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” sweatshirt was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison on Friday, lashing out at the Trump-appointed judge who sentenced him. Federal prosecutors had sought 14 years in federal prison for […]
Jan. 6 rioter who pushed through tear gas inside Capitol advances to House GOP runoff in Georgia
WASHINGTON — A Capitol riot defendant who waded through tear gas behind a pro-Donald Trump mob pursuing police officers inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 advanced to a GOP runoff in a Georgia House district on Tuesday, NBC News projects. Charles Hand III, who goes by Chuck Hand, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor offense […]
Jan. 6 felony rioter Derrick Evans loses GOP House primary in West Virginia
WASHINGTON — Derrick Evans, a Jan. 6 rioter who admitted in court that he committed a felony crime against police officers when he stormed the Capitol while yelling “Derrick Evans is in the Capitol!” lost a Republican primary race against Rep. Carol Miller in West Virginia, NBC News projects. Evans pleaded guilty to a felony […]
Unrepentant Jan. 6 rioter Derrick Evans goes up against GOP Rep. Carol Miller in West Virginia
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Incumbent Rep. Carol Miller has seen plenty of political challengers throughout her long, popular career, but perhaps not one as boisterous as Derrick Evans, her opponent in Tuesday’s Republican primary in West Virginia’s 1st Congressional District. Evans was a participant in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, and […]
Ryan Nichols, Capitol rioter who confessed on video in the third person, gets five years
WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump fanatic who assaulted officers with pepper spray and called for additional violence after the Capitol attack as he confessed in the third person was sentenced to more than five years in federal prison and fined $200,000 on Thursday. Ryan Nichols pleaded guilty in November to one felony count of obstruction […]
Trump says he may free every Jan. 6 rioter. His team is eyeing ‘case-by-case’ pardons.
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump, who is currently facing felony criminal charges in connection with Jan. 6, said that, if elected, he’d “absolutely” consider pardoning every single one of the hundreds of criminals convicted in connection with the attack on the U.S. Capitol. But Trump’s campaign, in a statement to NBC News, said such […]
The Jan. 6 rioter who filmed Ashli Babbitt’s fatal shooting gets 6 years in prison
A Jan. 6 rioter who filmed the insurrection at the Capitol, including the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt, was sentenced on Friday to six years in prison. John Earle Sullivan, 29, was convicted in November on charges that include felony obstruction of an official proceeding and civil disorder. His sentenced also includes 36 months of […]
Neo-Nazi Jan. 6 rioter pleads guilty, admits to stealing police helmet as a ‘war trophy’
WASHINGTON — A member of a neo-Nazi group pleaded guilty to Capitol riot charges Thursday, admitting he threw a water bottle at police during the brutal battle at the lower west tunnel and stole a police helmet as a “war trophy” during the Jan. 6 attack. Richard Zachary Ackerman pleaded guilty to two charges: obstructing […]
Federal judge condemns ‘normalization’ of January 6 while sentencing defiant rioter
A federal judge on Wednesday blasted a convicted January 6 rioter for downplaying the US Capitol attack and using the kind of revisionist rhetoric that former President Donald Trump often uses on the campaign trial. “This cannot become normal… We cannot condone the normalization of the January 6 US Capitol riot,” US District Judge Royce […]