12 Feb, 2025

Proud Boys’ Enrique Tarrio gets record 22 years in prison for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy

Politics “I ask you that you not take my 40s from me.” Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio. AP By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, Associated Press September 5, 2023 WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced Tuesday to 22 years in prison for orchestrating a failed plot […]

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Proud Boy on house arrest in Jan. 6 case disappears ahead of sentencing

Crime This image released by the FBI shows the wanted poster for Christopher Worrell. Authorities are searching for Worrell, a member of the Proud Boys extremist group, who disappeared days before his sentencing in a U.S. Capitol riot case, where prosecutors are seeking more than a decade in prison, according to a warrant made public […]

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Man who attacked Capitol with tomahawk on Jan. 6 gets 7 years in prison

National News Shane Jenkins, 46, of Texas, also repeatedly threw makeshift weapons at police officers during the riot. In this image from the body-worn camera of a Washington Metropolitan Police Department officer, released by the Justice Department in the Statement of Facts supporting an arrest warrant, Shane Jenkins confronts officers as they enforce a curfew […]

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Former Boston officer indicted in Jan. 6 assault on Capitol cop

Crime Former Boston police officer Joseph Robert Fisher pleaded not guilty Wednesday to eight criminal charges, including assaulting a Capitol police officer. In this image from US Capitol Police video, Joseph Robert Fisher appears inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. The former Boston police officer was arrested March 30 on charges that […]

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‘Zip Tie Guy’ and his mother get prison terms in Jan. 6 riot

National News Eric Munchel, 32, of Tennessee, was sentenced to nearly five years in prison in connection with the attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021, while his mother, Lisa Eisenhart, 59, received a two-and-a-half-year term. Eric Munchel, left, in the Senate Chamber after he stormed the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. By Eduardo Medina, New […]

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