Weekly January 6th Rioter Roundup: Week of September 5th

     Couy Griffin, an Otero County commissioner an the founder of Cowboys for Trump who was sentenced to 20 days in jail after being convicted at a bench trial of unlawful entry on Capitol grounds, was ordered removed from office by a county judge under the 14th amendment (for providing aid and comfort to an insurrection), the first time this has been done since 1869 and the first time the events of January 6th have been declared an insurrection by a court of law.

     Michael Dickinson, 31, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of assaulting law enforcement for throwing a coffee tumbler at one group of officers and pouring a bucket of water on another group during the January 6th insurrection. He faces 24 to 30 months in prison when he is sentenced on February 16th, 2023.

     Richard Michetti, a Pennsylvania man who texted his ex-girlfriend that she was a "moron" for not believing the Big Lie only to have him turn her in, was sentenced to nine months in prison with two years of probation and $2,000 after pleading guilty to a felony charge of obstructing an official proceeding.

     Sean Watson, a Texas man who infamously bragged that January 6th was the "proudest day of [his] life," was sentenced to a week in jail with two years of probation, 60 hours of community service, and $500 restitution for picketing, parading, and demonstrating in the Capitol.

     Lois McNicoll, 69, of California, was sentenced to two years of probation with 80 hours of community service and $500 restitution for the same charge.

     Justin Jersey, 32, of Flint, Michigan, who has a prior conviction for resisting law enforcement in his home state, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of assaulting law enforcement on January 6th for passing a gnarled wooden stick to another rioter, grabbing an officer by the mask and pushing him to the ground (which allowed another rioter to kick said officer in the head), taking an officer's baton, and using it to hit several officers. He faces 51 to 63 months in prison when he is sentenced on February 10th, 2023.

     Hatchet Speed, a Navy reservist who cited the Unabomber as one of his inspirations and was facing misdemeanor charges for his role on January 6th, was charged with felonies for illegally possessing a silencer among other pieces of equipment in his home, a discovery made when the FBI raided his home on January 6th charges. This is good news: instead of a maximum of a few months in jail, this dangerous domestic terrorist now faces years in prison on felony charges.

     Joshua Knowles, an Arizona man who was among the few dozen arrested in Washington, D.C. on the night of January 6th for a curfew violation, was finally indicted on four misdemeanor charges for his role in the January 6th insurrection itself instead of just for the related protests occurring in the District of Columbia.

     Dovid Schwartzberg, a Jewish, Brooklynite anti-vaxxer who was 19 when he made global headlines for storming the Capitol through an open window and entering the office of Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley, was sentenced to 45 days in prison with $500 restitution on a misdemeanor picketing charge. The judge in the case originally considered forcing Schwartzberg to serve his sentence in the D.C. jail but opted against it because he did not want the insurrectionist to become infected with COVID-19 and because he feared Schwartzberg would fall under the influence of other insurrectionists being held at the facility.

     Marcos Gleffe, an Elk Grove, Illinois, resident who called entering the Capitol "the biggest mistake of [his] life" and said that he wouldn't do it again if he could go back became the latest of a slew of Prairie State residents to plead guilty to charges related to the Capitol insurrection, a misdemeanor charge of picketing in the Capitol, to be exact.

     Darrell Youngers, a misdemeanant from Texas, was sentenced to three years of probation and $1,500 in fines and reparations after pleading guilty to the aforementioned parading charge last year.

     Nicholas Ochs, the founder of the Hawaii Proud Boys and a former state legislative candidate who appeared on Divorce Court and is the only Hawaiian charged so far in the insurrection, and his friend Nicholas DeCarlo, a Fort Worth, Texas, man, who, with Ochs, founded a group called "Murder the Media," each pleaded guilty to a felony charge of obstruction of an official proceeding and face 41 to 51 months in prison. The pleas occurred after they were caught on video obstructing law enforcement, destroying property, and bragging about "storming the Capitol" and declaring their intent to return; which undercut their argument that they were journalists documenting the event.

     Devin Rossman, an Independence, Missouri, man who was captured on Facebook and TikTok on Capitol grounds and admitted to entering the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, pleaded guilty to a class B misdemeanor of picketing, parading, or demonstrating in the Capitol.

     Shane Woods, 44, of Auburn, Illinois, the first insurrectionist to be charged with assaulting a member of the media, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of assaulting a law enforcement officer for tackling an officer who was pursuing a man who had pepper sprayed her and another felony charge of federal assault for tackling a member of the media who was trying to walk away from a mob destroying his equipment. He faces a sentence of 33 to 41 months in prison when he is sentenced on Jan 13th, 2023. 

     Read last week's weekly rioter roundup here.