A Littleton man was sentenced to a few years in federal jail this week for confronting and grappling with police throughout the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Patrick Montgomery, 51, was discovered responsible of obstructing an official continuing and assaulting, resisting or impeding officers earlier this 12 months, in line with federal prosecutors and court docket information.
After a U.S. Supreme Courtroom ruling that raised the bar of proof for charging Capitol rioters with obstruction, the obstruction cost was dropped and Montgomery was sentenced Thursday to 37 months of imprisonment and 36 months of supervised launch for the remaining fees.
The U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the District of Columbia wrote in a information launch that Montgomery and co-defendants Brady Knowlton and Gary Wilson attended the “Save America” rally on the morning of Jan. 6, the place then-President Donald Trump and his allies promoted the unfounded declare that widespread voter fraud prompted Trump’s loss within the 2020 presidential election.
Montgomery, Knowlton and Wilson then walked to the west aspect of the Capitol constructing, the place they crossed a restricted perimeter, and Montgomery tried to wrestle a baton out of the arms of a regulation enforcement officer.
“The officer held onto the baton and fell to the bottom with Montgomery,” prosecutors mentioned within the launch. “The 2 then tried to wrestle management of the baton from one another whereas Knowlton and Wilson watched close by. Through the scuffle, Montgomery kicked the police officer within the chest.”
Montgomery and others entered the constructing via an emergency exit, continuing via the Capitol rotunda and into the Senate gallery, the place the three confronted a U.S. Capitol police officer.
In keeping with prosecutors, Montgomery yelled on the officer, “You’ve acquired to cease doing all your job someday and begin being American. You’ve acquired to stop doing all your job and be an American.”
The group left the constructing quickly after, and Montgomery was arrested in Colorado on Jan. 17, 2021. Knowlton is awaiting sentencing for his function within the riot, and Wilson was sentenced to at least one month’s imprisonment and a 12 months of supervised launch, prosecutors mentioned.
In 2021, Montgomery, a Littleton looking information, violated the circumstances of his launch by looking and killing a mountain lion and was positioned on home arrest. He had been ordered to not possess any weapons whereas the federal fees in opposition to him had been pending, in line with motions filed by prosecutors.
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