Weekly January 6th Rioter Roundup: Week of September 19th

     Kenneth Grayson, 53, of Pennsylvania, a man with a long history of violence who proclaimed that he wanted to "behead" Joe Biden, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of civil disorder and faces up to six months in prison when he is sentenced on December 19th.

     Barton Wade Shively, a 55-year-old Pennsylvania man, pleaded guilty to two counts of assaulting law enforcement on January 6th for punching one officer and then grabbing and yelling at another. He faces a maximum of 16 years in prison when he is sentenced on February 3rd but faces a recommended sentence of 30 to 37 months in prison.

     Susan Manwaring, a Utah woman and the mother of defendant Landon Manwaring, was arrested and charged via information with picketing, parading, and demonstrating in the Capitol building. Her son was previously arrested and charged in the same way and pleaded guilty to the same charge.

     Lawrence Ambrose, a mystery man I have been unable to uncover any real information about, was ironically charged VIA AN INFORMATION with picketing, parading, or demonstrating in the Capitol building, an indication that he plans to plead guilty.

     Neil Ashcraft, a Florida man who scaled the Capitol wall, shouted for other rioters to join him, cut away sheathing from the inauguration scaffolding, hit the door to the building with a flagpole, posed with a statue of Ronald Reagan, and stole said flagpole, was charged via information and pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of theft of government property and entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds. He faces a maximum of two years of prison when he is sentenced.

     Five men aged 21 to 23, all members of the far-right group America First; from Florida, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, and Virginia; were arrested, one on felony and misdemeanor charges and four on misdemeanor charges alone. The men are Joseph Brody, Thomas Carey, Gabriel Chase, Jon Lizak, and Paul Ewald Lovley. 

     Reva Vincent, a Greensburg, Kentucky, business owner who was charged via information with and subsequently pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of picketing, parading, or demonstrating in the Capitol building, was sentenced to two years of probation with 60 hours of community service and $2,000 in fines and restitution.

     Doug Jensen, the QAnon conspiracy theorist who chased Officer Eugene Goodman in one of the most memorable moments of the insurrection, was convicted in a jury trial of five felony and two misdemeanor charges carrying a combined total of 53 years in prison when he is sentenced on December 16th.

     Kurt Peterson, 66, of Kentucky, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds with a dangerous weapon for using a wooden stick to shatter a window in the Capitol building and faces up to six months in prison when he is sentenced at a date that has yet to be determined.

     Andrew Alan Hernandez, 45, of Riverside, California, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of aiding and abetting obstruction of an official proceeding for taking selfies on the Senate floor on January 6th. He faces 15 to 21 months in prison when he is sentenced on January 27th, 2023.

     Timothy Louis Hale-Cusanelli, a former New Jersey army reservist who was dishonorably discharged after his role in the insurrection and gained notoriety for sporting a Hitler mustache and giving Nazi salutes, hosting a white supremacist YouTube show, carving anti-Semitic images on jail property, firing a potato gun with the words "White Power" written it, and coming to control most of the finances of January 6th defendants who raised money via fundraisers; was sentenced to four years in prison with three years of supervised release and $2,000 restitution after being convicted of a felony charge of obstructing an official proceeding and multiple related misdemeanors at a jury trial in May. 

     Blas Santillan, an MMA fighter from Georgia who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor, was sentenced to 45 days in prison with three years of probation and $500 restitution.

     Thomas Hamner, a Colorado man who pleaded guilty to a felony charge of civil disorder for assaulting officers while dressed in an ugly Christmas sweater that said "Guns don't kill people; Clintons do;" was sentenced to 30 months in prison with three years of supervised release and $2,000 restitution on this charge. Because he had no formal plea agreement, multiple other felony charges that could earn him many more years of extra prison time remain pending.

     David Johnston, a South Carolina attorney who was fired from his job after being charged with misdemeanor crimes for the January 6th insurrection, pleaded guilty to a single charge of picketing, parading, or demonstrating in the Capitol.

     Cory Brannan, a Texas man who arranged to attend the "Stop the Steal" rally with friends before climbing through a window near the Senate wing doors and exiting six minutes later while clad in goggles and military gear, was sentenced to a month in prison with two years of probation, 60 hours of community service, and $500 restitution.

     Robert Sanford, a retired Pennsylvania firefighter who called officers "traitors" and assaulted them with a traffic cone and, in the ultimate irony, a FIRE EXTINGUISHER; pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement with a dangerous weapon and faces 46 to 78 months in prison when he is sentenced on January 17th.

     Marshall Neefe and Charles Bradford Smith, two Pennsylvania men who pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement on January 6th with a baton they called the "Commie Knocker" as well as a large metal sign that has come to be called the "Sedition Billboard," were sentenced to 41 months in prison with three years of supervised release and $2,000 in restitution (each).

     Read last week's roundup here.