Weekly January 6th Rioter Roundup: Week of July 18th

     Guy Reffitt, the man who threatened to kill his own son for turning him in and the first rioter to be convicted at trial, had his sentencing date set for August 1st; meanwhile, it was revealed that the DOJ would be seeking its first terrorism enhancement for a January 6th defendant and a sentence of 15 years, which, if handed down, would be nearly three times as long as the longest sentence handed down so far.

     David Ticas of California was sentenced to 14 days in prison with two years of probation, 60 hours of community service, and $500 restitution after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge for parading in the Capitol.

     Kevin Blakely, 55, of McKinney, Texas, was sentenced to four months in prison with 18 months of probation and $500 restitution after pleading guilty to violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, a class A misdemeanor.

     Kerry Wayne Persick, Blakely's companion, was sentenced to three months of house arrest with three years of probation and $5,500 of fines and restitution after pleading guilty to parading in the U.S. Capitol.

     William Hendry Mellors, 50, of Tomball, Texas, was arrested for assaulting law enforcement officers with bear spray at the Capitol during the January 6th insurrection.

     Matthew Buckler of Maryland received 14 days of house arrest with two years of probation, 60 hours of community service, and $500 in restitution for the aforementioned class B misdemeanor charge.

     Moises Romero, a Florida nurse, was sentenced to just over a year in prison followed by a year of probation, 60 hours of community service, and $2,000 restitution.

     Tina Logsdon and Christopher Logsdon, a Southern Illinois couple that stormed the Capitol, bragged about it on Facebook, and made clear that it was Trump supporters and not Antifa, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor picketing charges and are set to be sentenced on October 28th.

     Thomas and Marilyn Fassell, an elderly couple in which the latter gained local fame for smoking inside the Capitol, pleaded guilty to the class B misdemeanor parading charge and are set to be sentenced at a later date.

     Dawn Bancroft, a Pennsylvania gym owner and current political candidate who said she wanted to "shoot [Nancy] Pelosi in [her] friggin' brain," was sentenced to two months in prison with three years of probation, 100 hours of community service, and $500 of restitution for a misdemeanor charge of picketing or parading in the U.S. Capitol. Diana Santos-Smith, her colleague, was sentenced to 20 days of incarceration with three years of probation, 100 hours of community service, and $500 restitution for the same charge.

     Shawn Witzemann, the last New Mexico resident facing charges from the January 6th insurrection, pled guilty to a class B misdemeanor charge of picketing, parading, or demonstrating in a Capitol building; he faces a maximum sentence of six months behind bars and a $5,000 fine.

     Matthew Bledsoe, a Tennessee resident who has since moved to Mississippi, was convicted by a jury of felony obstructing an official proceeding and four other misdemeanors all carrying a combined maximum of 23 years in federal prison for scaling a wall during the insurrection.

     Dova Winegeart, an Oklahoma bakery owner who bragged about her actions on Facebook, was arrested on a felony and several misdemeanors for using a pole to smash a window at the Capitol on January 6th. 

     Anthime Gionet, the far-right troll who livestreamed his actions during the insurrection, set the number of January 6 convictions above 350 when he pleaded guilty to parading, picketing, or demonstrating in the Capitol building, a misdemeanor he had tried to plead guilty to in May but which resulted in a trial date being set for March 2023 after he refused to accept responsibility for his actions. He will be sentenced on January 12th, 2023.

     Steve Bannon became the first person to be convicted of contempt of Congress in nearly 40 years after a weeklong trial for his defiance of subpoenas issued by the January 6th Committee; he faces a sentence of one month to two years in prison and a fine of $1,000 to $200,000 when he is sentenced on October 21st.

Here is last week's weekly roundup.