Jan 6 Breach of the Capitol: Consequences & Repercussions III

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Navy veteran who stormed Capitol on Jan. 6 gets 3 years in prison on gun charges​

A former Navy reservist who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison on firearms charges.

[He will be sentenced next month for the Jan 6 obstruction charges.]

Another 4 years for that.

'A rabbit hole of darkness and extremism' | Ex-Navy Reservist sentenced to 4 years in Capitol riot case​

After Jan. 6, Speed, who had a TS/SCI clearance (top secret/sensitive compartmented information), told the undercover FBI employee he began “panic buying” tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of firearms and equipment. Prosecutors said that was part of a larger goal of “violent revolution” intertwined with intense antisemitism and effusive praise for Adolf Hitler. At one point, they said, Speed told the undercover employee the approach of jihadists would be an “effective way to ‘wipe out’ the opposition, referring to Jewish people.
Speed also described himself to the undercover employee as a Proud Boy and said he'd marched to the Capitol with other members of the group before entering the building.

“Hatchet Speed, as a 41-year-old military veteran, has spent his life in service – to his church, to his community, to the underserved, and to his country,” [his public defender] wrote. “For those who know him and describe him as thoughtful, caring, and considerate, his recent involvement with the criminal justice system and attendant publicity is shocking.”

 

[Whyayeman]

“Hatchet Speed, as a 41-year-old military veteran, has spent his life in service – to his church, to his community, to the underserved, and to his country,” [his public defender] wrote. “For those who know him and describe him as thoughtful, caring, and considerate, his recent involvement with the criminal justice system and attendant publicity is shocking.”

Just as shocking as his involvement in the January 6th riot.

 

[Hans Blaster]

"Pink Beret" identified by ex-boyfriend.

Jan. 6 rioter in pink beret identified after ex spotted her in a viral FBI tweet​

“It’s just going to be one of those things for me. I dated this girl that was on the FBI’s most wanted list.”

He sent in a tip to the FBI. On Monday, he said he got a call from the bureau, confirming they were investigating Jenny. By Friday, a law enforcement official confirmed to NBC News that the bureau had identified “Pink Beret” as the clothing designer’s ex, Jennifer Inzuza Vargas, of Los Angeles.

Toward the end of those months [of dating], the designer said, Vargas posted on his Discord that she was reading Hitler’s 1925 manifesto. They got into a discussion about it that revealed more of Vargas’ far-right politics, he said.

“I was just instantly turned off, like, ‘Yo, I don’t think this is going to work out,’” he said. “You’re, like, reading ‘Mein Kampf,’ you think immigrants don’t deserve X, Y, Z.”

Now they have charges against her:

DOJ charges 'Pink Beret' Jan. 6 rioter IDed after an ex spotted her in a viral FBI tweet

11 days from placing her on the wanted list and making a viral Tweet, to ID, to article, to arrest warrant.

A different defendant going to trial soon has been claiming she was a "femme fatal" and "Fed" luring innocents into the Capitol. Oh well.

 

[Whyayeman]

A different defendant going to trial soon has been claiming she was a "femme fatal"

How romantic!

 

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Man seen dangling from Senate balcony on Jan. 6 sentenced to 15 months​

Josiah Colt, the first to set foot on the Senate floor and first to flip in a U.S. cooperation deal, is a ‘poster child’ for reconciliation, his lawyer says​

The first rioter to breach the Senate floor after leaping from a balconyand the first person to plead guilty in a cooperation deal with the government after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months in prison.

But [Judge] Friedrich praised Colt for turning himself in six days after the attack, publicly apologizing and openly aiding investigators after pleading guilty in July 2021 to obstructing a congressional proceeding. She said that was why she was sentencing him to far less time in prison than the men with him that day.

The three men brought gas masks, guns, knives and bear spray to D.C., and their actions and planning put them “worlds apart from most January 6 defendants,” Justice Department trial attorney Jessica Arco said. Unlike others, none of the men could claim they just “followed the crowd,” got caught up in events, or didn’t plan for impeding lawmakers and police.

“My fellow patriot Josiah Colt sleeping ready for the boogaloo Jan. 6,” Sandlin posted on Facebook on Jan. 4, 2021. The post included a picture of Colt in a bed holding a handgun, and used a term taken up by fringe groups referring to civil war. Sandlin “urge[d] other patriots” watching to “take the Capitol” in another posted video, saying “there is going to be violence,” according to plea papers.

 

[Hans Blaster]

A fresh one (at least a fresh indictment, arrest was at least a week ago:

Florida man charged with setting off explosive device during Jan. 6 riot

"Daniel Ball of Homosassa is charged with 12 counts, including assaulting, resisting or impeding officers with a deadly or dangerous weapon; using an explosive to commit any felony; and obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder.

He is the only Jan. 6 defendant charged with setting off an explosive device during the attack on the Capitol."

 

[Hans Blaster]

"Pink Beret" identified by ex-boyfriend.

Jan. 6 rioter in pink beret identified after ex spotted her in a viral FBI tweet​

“It’s just going to be one of those things for me. I dated this girl that was on the FBI’s most wanted list.”

He sent in a tip to the FBI. On Monday, he said he got a call from the bureau, confirming they were investigating Jenny. By Friday, a law enforcement official confirmed to NBC News that the bureau had identified “Pink Beret” as the clothing designer’s ex, Jennifer Inzuza Vargas, of Los Angeles.

Toward the end of those months [of dating], the designer said, Vargas posted on his Discord that she was reading Hitler’s 1925 manifesto. They got into a discussion about it that revealed more of Vargas’ far-right politics, he said.

“I was just instantly turned off, like, ‘Yo, I don’t think this is going to work out,’” he said. “You’re, like, reading ‘Mein Kampf,’ you think immigrants don’t deserve X, Y, Z.”

In a text to NBC's Ryan Reilly (author of the quoted article), the ex-boyfreind noted about some of the conspiracies about "Pink Beret":

“sometimes the truth is boring she’s just a random girl from Sacramento”

Someone named Mark Frauenfelder wrote new lyrics to a certain Prince song with this refrain:

I wore a raspberry beret ​

The kind you find at a conspiracy store ​

Raspberry beret ​

And now the FBI's knocking at my door​

Raspberry beret​

I know I love Trump​

Woman wearing a raspberry beret wanted by FBI for participating in J6 insurrection | Boing Boing

I was working part-time at the conspiracy storeMy boss was Mr. QHe told me several times that he’d open my eyesTo a world of secrets and government lies One day I was scrolling through my cha…

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[perplexed]

The brutal reality is that from Trump's perspective there are no repercussions.
if Trump went back in time he would not warn himself not make his ridiculous stop the steal claim and the seditious claim that courts ignored massive evidence of Fraud.
Trump is quite happy with his lies, without them would not be the front runner in republican primaries, he just would be written off as a loser.

 

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Utah man arrested on felony charges for role in Jan. 6 Capitol riot​

Odin Meacham, 29, was arrested Monday and charged with several felony counts, including assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers, civil disorder, and disorderly and disruptive conduct.

Happy National Police Week!

 

[essentialsaltes]

Crossposted from the 'Weaponization' Subcommittee thread due to its relevance here. [This post has now been shortened for copyright reasons.]

FBI: Agents set to testify on alleged abuses had clearances revoked [in the past] over security concerns [and support for Jan 6 rioters]​

Dunham’s letter included additional details about Friend’s clearance revocation [in September 2021], saying he espoused alternative theories about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Allen expressed “sympathy for persons or organizations that advocate, threaten or use force of violence … in an effort to prevent federal government personnel from performing their official duties,” which had affected his work.

Also included in Dunham’s letter was information on the revocation of agent Brett Gloss’s top-secret security clearance, which occurred after the FBI’s Washington field office made a referral for an investigation that was opened in August 2021. The investigation found that Gloss “knowingly entered a restricted zone around the U.S. Capitol” on Jan. 6 and expressed support for the rioters.

 

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Marine is first active-duty military member convicted in Jan. 6 riot ​

Cpl. Micah R. Coomer, who pleaded guilty to entering the Capitol, is one of five active-duty military members to be arrested on Jan. 6 charges​

An active-duty Marine who entered the Capitol with two of his colleagues from the Quantico Marine Corps Base on Jan. 6, 2021, and then spent more than 50 minutes wandering through the building, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a misdemeanor count of illegally parading or demonstrating in the Capitol. All three Marines work in intelligence gathering, including one at the National Security Agency headquarters in Maryland.

he posted photos from inside the Capitol during the riot and wrote that he was, “Glad to be apart [sic] of history.” Later in January 2021, according to an FBI affidavit seeking his arrest, Coomer wrote in a conversation with another Instagram user that “everything in this country is corrupt. We honestly need a fresh restart. I’m waiting for the boogaloo.”

 

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A police officer frequently provided Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio with internal information about law enforcement operations in the weeks before other members of his far-right extremist group stormed the U.S. Capitol, according to messages shown Wednesday at the trial of Tarrio and four associates.
[The officer is on administrative leave and has apparently Fiffed in this matter.]

DC metro police officer accused of tipping off Proud Boys leader about his impending arrest​

Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Shane Lamond faces an indictment accusing him of one count of obstruction and three counts of false statements. Lamond allegedly was in regular contact with Tarrio, starting at least in July 2019.

Federal prosecutors also say Lamond shared with the Proud Boys leader sensitive law enforcement information regarding the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot investigation as well as about the probe into Tarrio’s burning of a Black Lives Matter flag during a Washington, DC, protest in December 2020.

 

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The enemy of my useful idiots is my enemy.

Moscow bans ‘500 Americans’ from Russia ​

The statement also said: “The attached ‘list-500’ also includes those in government and law enforcement agencies who are directly involved in the persecution of dissidents in the wake of the so-called Storming the Capitol.”

The list also includes Georgia's SoS Brad Raffensperger, who was unable to find the 11,000 votes President Trump needed him to find.

306. Брэдфорд Раффенспергер (Bradford Jay Raffensperger) – секретарь штата Джорджия;

 

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Texas militia member sentenced to almost 5 years in prison in Jan. 6 case​

Donald Hazard of Hurst, Texas was sentenced to prison for assaulting Capitol Police officers during the riot, according to the Justice Department.

The encounter resulted in the officer, who was not identified by DOJ, being knocked unconscious, also sustaining injuries to his head, foot, and arm, some of which required surgery.

[Hazard] began posting selfie-style videos inside and outside the building, making statements such as “We’re here at the nation’s capitol and we’re storming it. We’re taking the Capitol. . . This is America baby,” DOJ said.

Previously in Hazardous news.

 

[Hans Blaster]

I've been meaning to do this for a couple weeks. Collected from my various sources a list of recent sentences of note from the last month. A couple might have been in posts above.

Lucas Denney, Texas, Patriot Boys militia, Assault on officers including tossing a "pole" at them, 52 months
Donald Hazzard, Texas, Patriot Boys militia Assault on officers, 5x months

Dale Shalvey, Penn., Obstruction (Senate floor), assault, 41 months
Tara Stottlemeyer, Penn. Obstruction (Senate floor), 8 months
Katherine Morrison, NY, Obstruction (Senate floor), 8 months

Nathan DeGrave, Nevada, Obstruction (Senate floor), assault, 37 months

Josiah Colt, Idaho, Obstruction (Senate balcony dangler), 15 months

Landon Mitchell, Texas, Obstruction (Senate floor), 27 months

Hatchet Speed, Virginia, (TS/SCI clearance holder, nazi fan), Obstruction, 48 months

Grayson Sherrill, NC, Assault, 7 months

Peter Schwartz, Kentucky (habitual criminal), Multiple counts assault, 170 months

Deborah Sandoval, Iowa, Entering and remaining in restricted building, 5 months ( a pretty stiff sentence for this misdemeanor)

James Robinson, Penn., Parading and picketing, 6 months (max)

Jeffery Brown, California, Assault (pepper spraying officers in tunnel), 54 months

John Nassif, Florida, Restricted building; parading, 7 months (judge noted lack of remorse and falsehoods while testifying at trial)

Jacob Therres, Maryland, Assault (threw 4x4 post at officers), 40 months


There are 16 more sentencings coming this week from parading to seditious conspiracy including 5 of the big Oath Keepers. (One had his sentencing delayed today, the others are still on track starting with OK honcho and hidey-hole builder, Stuart Rhoades.)

 

[Whyayeman]

Some hefty sentences there. Expected, I suppose.

Peter Schwartz, Kentucky (habitual criminal), Multiple counts assault, 170 months

That is 14 years and two months. I should think the high level of violence accounts for so long.

 

[Hans Blaster]

Some hefty sentences there. Expected, I suppose.


That is 14 years and two months. I should think the high level of violence accounts for so long.

The DOJ actually asked for 10 more years (24+) based on the guidelines calculation. I haven't seen any reporting on the sentencing to see what happened. Perhaps the Judge deviated down a lot (kind of doubt that) or more likely he rejected part of their calculation (an enhancement or the criminal history part covering 30+ previous crimes). This same judge gave the previous record sentence of 120 montsh to an ex-NYPD officer for beating a Capitol police officer. (In that case I think they wanted 12-14 years, but my memory is a bit fuzzy.) The sentencing took place at the same time that the DOJ recommendation for the seditious Oath Keepers was posted to the docket and it will be the same judge. As I speculated earlier, perhaps the judge didn't want to box himself in to the most severe punishment requested. As it turns out most of them have recommended sentences above 14 years, so he has some "wiggle room". We'll see what happens on Wednesday when the OK leader (Rhoades) goes up for his sentence (25 years recommended). I have this suspicion that it will be more than Schwartz, but how much more is hard to say.

 

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Central Texas vineyard owner sentenced to prison in Jan. 6 insurrection​

Christopher Grider, the Central Texas vineyard owner who claims the government misinterpreted his intentions after he entered the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to just less than seven years in prison Tuesday for his role in the unprecedented insurrection.

Judge Kollar-Kotelly found Grider guilty after a trial in December on all counts against him, including civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding, destruction of government property, remaining in a restricted building or grounds, engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or building.

“He is done with Donald Trump,” [his lawyer] wrote. “He wants nothing further to do with the political process. He is ready to pay his debt to society so that he can return to his family, his church, his business and his community as quickly as possible. And he is ready to support and uphold American democracy.”

 

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FBI: “significant possibility of violence” on January 6th​

An internal FBI email sent the morning of January 5, 2021 warned, “unfortunately there is the significant possibility of violence” on January 6, as “[w]e start the year with a tumultuous week in DC.”

The email, part of a large tranche of FBI communication obtained by CREW under the Freedom of Information Act, gives a never before seen look at the agency’s internal discussions leading up to the attack on the Capitol–and how it differed from the Secret Service’s conclusion that January 6th protests posed “no indication of civil disobedience.”

 

[Hans Blaster]

A few more sentencings:

Julio Baquero, Florida, Civil disorder (resisted officers clearing Rotunda), 18 months

Bernard Sirr, Rhode Island, Civil disorder (pushed against officers near tunnel, 2 months

Christopher Grider, Texas, Obstruction of Congress, Civil Disorder, 83 months

Richard "Bigo" Barnett, Arkansas, Obstruction, Civil Disorder, theft (guy with feet up in Speaker's office suite) 54 months