WASHINGTON (AP) — A Southern California man who assaulted police with pepper spray throughout the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in jail, federal authorities introduced.
Jeffrey Scott Brown, 56, of Santa Ana obtained a sentence of 54 months in federal jail for felony and misdemeanor expenses associated to the mob assault by supporters of former President Donald Trump, the U.S. Division of Justice mentioned in a Friday press assertion.
Greater than 1,000 people have been arrested, together with greater than 320 individuals who have been charged with assaulting or impeding legislation enforcement, the DOJ mentioned. Trump supporters that day tried to cease Congress from certifying presidential election outcomes for Joe Biden, a Democrat, over Trump, a Republican.
Brown and two co-defendants have been discovered responsible at trial in December.
Peter J. Schwartz of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, is scheduled to be sentenced in Might. It was not clear why Markus Maly of Fincastle, Virginia, was not sentenced Friday as scheduled.
Prosecutors had sought a sentence of 70 months for Brown, who they are saying dove towards the entrance of a makeshift police line and used on officers a stolen can of pepper spray handed to him by Schwartz.
Brown’s legal professional, Samuel C. Moore, sought 40 months in jail, in keeping with courtroom paperwork.
Moore mentioned that the conduct concerned “lower than 10 minutes of Mr. Brown’s life” and the alleged pepper spray “didn’t make contact with any particular sufferer.” Nonetheless, Moore wrote, Brown admits he ought to by no means have been within the Capitol tunnel that day and that he takes accountability for doing so.