Weekly January 6th Rioter Roundup: Week of September 12th

     Anthony and Jeramiah Carollo and Cody Vollan, a trio of cousins from Illinois, were each sentenced to a year of probation with 60 hours of community service and $500 restitution after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of picketing, parading, and demonstrating inside the Capitol building; Jeramiah Carollo was also ordered to spend 21 days in prison.

     Jack Whitton, one of nine men charged with assaulting and threatening to murder one officer before pulling another to the ground and beating him with a crutch and a flag, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of assaulting law enforcement with a dangerous weapon and faces 63 to 97 months in prison when he is sentenced in March.

     David Mehaffie, Patrick McCaughey III, and Tristan Chandler Stevens, three of the nine men who were charged with assaulting police in the Capitol tunnel in an indictment, were found guilty of two felonies and two misdemeanors, seven felonies and two misdemeanors, and five felonies and four misdemeanors, respectively, while Mehaffie and Stevens were each acquitted of one felony, by Judge Trevor McFadden. Three other men-- David Judd, Robert Morss, and Geoffrey Sills-- were convicted of two, three, and four felonies respectively last month in a trial in which they and the government agreed to a stipulated set of facts. Christopher Joseph Quaglin, Federico Klein, and Cappuccio, the last three men in this indictment, are set to go on trial early next year. Mehaffie had previously faced federal charges in the 90s for blocking an abortion clinic and earned the nickname "Tunnel Commander" for giving instructions to others in the tunnel; McCaughey became notorious for crushing Officer Daniel Hodges in the door in the tunnel; Stevens used a baton and a shield to assault officers.

     Frank Bratjan, a New York postal worker who moved to Minnesota after the insurrection, was sentenced to six months of probation with $2,000 in fines and restitution after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of picketing, parading, or demonstrating in the U.S. Capitol.

     Kyle Young, the Iowa lowlife who was among four to eight men to assault Officer Michael Fanone and was the one who shouted, "Kill him with his own gun," was recommended a sentence of 86 months in prison by the DOJ after having pled guilty to assault on a federal officer, which, if handed out by a judge later this month, would be the third-longest so far.

     Suzanne Ianni, a former elected official from Natick, Massachusetts, who organized busloads of people to attend the insurrection as part of an anti-LGBTQ extremist group that has organized "straight pride" parades and pro-Trump Big Lie rallies, pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building and faces up to six months in jail and five years of probation when she is sentenced in December. 

     Josiah Kenyon, a sovereign citizen arrested in Nevada's northern mountains last December in a trailer with his wife and small children, all of whom were also sovereign citizens; pleaded guilty to felony charges carrying sentencing guidelines of 78 to 97 months in prison for assaulting police with a pylon and a table leg by striking them with and throwing the objects at them after having participated in causing $40,000 in damage to a window, all while dressed as Jack Skellington from "The Nightmare Before Christmas."

     Salvatore Vassallo, a 59-year-old Proud Boy from Toms River, New Jersey, was arrested on two felony and and five misdemeanor charges for climbing over a police barricade and lunging at an officer on Capitol grounds; he has been released on bond pending an initial hearing.

     Robert Keith Packer, the man who went viral for wearing a "Camp Auschwitz" shirt atop an SS shirt during the insurrection and refused to show any remorse, was sentenced to 75 days in jail (the sentence that the DOJ had asked for) and $500 restitution by a Trump-appointed judge after making himself out to be the victim of media slander before and during his sentencing on a misdemeanor charge of parading in the Capitol.

     Anthony Williams, the Southgate, Michigan, man who smoked weed in the Capitol rotunda and took selfies with an American flag before taking to social media to claim "the Founding Fathers were smiling down on [him]," that his "[veteran] father and grandfather would be proud," that it was the "happiest day of [his] life," and to call himself an "'Operation Swamp Storm' 'veteran';" was sentenced to five years in prison with three years of supervised release and $7,000 in fines and restitution after being convicted at trial in June of obstructing an official proceeding and related misdemeanors.

     Read last week's roundup here.