Weekly January 6th Rioter Roundup: Week of September 26th

     Daniel Ray Caldwell, 51, of The Colony, Texas, who has a prior conviction for DUI, pleaded guilty to assault on a law enforcement officer with a deadly weapon and faces 63 to 78 months in prison when he is sentenced on February 1st of next year. A described white supremacist, he sprayed a group of up to 14 officers with a can of pepper spray.

     Paula Conlon and Stacy Bond, two Maryland women who entered the Capitol together, both pleaded guilty to picketing, parading, or demonstrating in the Capitol building, a class B misdemeanor punishable by up to six months behind bars and five years of supervised release.

     Levi Gable, an Oklahoma man turned in by a college fraternity brother, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds and faces up to a year in prison when he is sentenced next year.

     Michelle Estey and Melanie Belger, two Orange County, California, women who bragged about their participation in the Capitol insurrection on social media, were arrested and each charged with four misdemeanors carrying a combined maximum of three years in prison.

     Kyle Fitzsimons, a butcher from Lebanon, Maine, who was captured on video years ago spreading the Great Replacement Theory at a town hall meeting and who used his arrest to raise tens of thousands of dollars and try to launch a political career while bragging from his jail cell, was convicted of seven felony counts and four misdemeanor counts at a bench trial before Judge Rudolph Contreras, including four counts of assault on a law enforcement officer, civil disorder, and obstructing an official proceeding. On January 6th, he traveled in a white coat and used an unstrung bow and other objects to assault at least four police officers, including Officer Aquilino Gonell, 

     John Herbert Strand, a male model and board member of an anti-vax medical group that his wife, the infamous Simone Gold, runs, was convicted by a jury of a felony and four misdemeanors carrying a combined maximum of 24 years in prison when he is sentenced on January 12th, 2023.

     Daniel Warmus, a New York anti-police auditor who also seems to hate ANTIFA for some reason, was arrested after bragging to his dentist, and attended a school meeting in Uvalde to (in this case, rightfully) criticize the police response, was sentenced to 45 days in prison with two years of probation, 60 hours of community service, and $500 restitution.

     Kyle Young, a career felon who brought his son to the insurrection, grabbed Officer Michael Fanone, handed a stun gun to another insurrectionist to use against the officer, and shouted, "Kill him with his own gun!" was sentenced to 86 months in prison with three years of supervised release and $2,000 in restitution after pleading guilty. Fanone said he hoped Young suffered in prison, after which Young's mom had the nerve to call him a "piece of shit." Young faked some tears but spoke to attendees of a vigil held outside the DC jail after his sentencing. Young, aside from the 16-year-old son he brought, also has a year-old daughter who "barely knows him," and this sentence ensures that he will miss out on the last years of his son's childhood and the first years of his daughter's, which is a fitting punishment for this degenerate.

     Raechel Genco; a Pennsylvania woman who traveled to the Capitol with Ryan Samsel, currently detained for knocking Officer Caroline Edwards unconscious; was sentenced to a year of probation with 60 hours of community service and $500 restitution after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building.

     Robert Lyon, an Ohio man who stole two bottles of liquor and a coat rack from the Capitol with fellow Ohio codefendant Dustin Thompson, was sentenced to 40 days in prison with a year of probation and $3,000 in fines and restitution after pleading guilty to the same charge as Genco. 

     Lucas Denney, the president of a Three Percenters-affiliated group called the Patriot Boys of North Texas whose case was initially lost in the court system, was sentenced to 52 months in prison followed by three years of probation as well as restitution to be determined at a later date after pleading guilty to assaulting officers with a metal tube, a barricade, a pole, and a chemical irritant on a dozen occasions over the course of two hours.

     Vaughn Gordon, a Lafayette, Louisiana, man who spent hours inside the Capitol donning goggles and saying the tear gas was "worth it" before giving a speech in front of the Louisiana State Capitol days later claiming he was "by mandate a felon" for entering the Capitol, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of parading inside the Capitol and faces up to six months in prison; he is the first Louisiana man convicted for the events of January 6th.

     Logan Barnhart, a Michigan bodybuilder and another male model who was featured on the covers of three romance novels but has prior convictions for rioting and brandishing a firearm in public, pleaded guilty to assaulting a law enforcement officer with a deadly weapon and faces a sentence of 41 to 63 months in prison on March 9th, 2023, for dragging a Capitol police officer down the stairs of the Capitol building. He is the third man from a nine-defendant indictment to plead guilty: a fourth died of natural causes before his case was resolved while five more are awaiting trial.

     Kenneth Rader, a Sioux City, Iowa, man with 23 prior criminal convictions who wrote a book about his drug addiction and threatened to behead President Biden during his brief time inside the Capitol, was sentenced to three months in prison with three years of probation and $500 restitution after pleading guilty to picketing, parading, and demonstrating in the Capitol, a misdemeanor.

     Mahailya Pryer and Cara Hentschel, two Springfield, Missouri, women with histories of drug addiction and criminal activity who each demonstrated a lack of remorse for their misdemeanor crimes on January 6th, were sentenced to 45 days in prison and in a halfway home, respectively, with Judge Florence Pan noting that Hentschel was doing well at a new job while Pryer checked into a rehab clinic last week before checking out days later against staff advice. Each must also spend three years on probation and pay $500 restitution, while Hentschel must also pay an additional $500 fine.

     Micki Larson-Olson, a 53-year-old Abilene, Texas, woman, was sentenced to six months in jail after being convicted by a jury in the local DC courts a day earlier of a misdemeanor count of entering restricted grounds, the first such conviction and sentence for a local DC arrest. Wearing the Captain America outfit that earned her fame in MAGA circles, she grabbed onto scaffolding and resisted officers who tried repeatedly to ask her to leave; it ultimately took six officers to physically remove and arrest her.

     Mikhail Slye, 32, of Meadville, Pennsylvania, was charged with felony counts of civil disorder and assaulting law enforcement and six related misdemeanors for using a barricade to trip a Capitol police officer before entering the Capitol illegally twice.

     Ronald Sandlin, a Tennessee "boogaloo" follower, or a believer in an impending race-based civil war, who screamed at officers that they would die and grabbed two by the helmets, stole a book from the Senate, attempted to steal an oil painting (ultimately being stopped by other insurrectionists), and lit up a joint in celebration while armed with a knife after having raised money for his trip to D.C., pleaded guilty to assaulting an officer and obstructing an official proceeding. He faces 51 to 78 months in prison at sentencing; his co-defendants Nathaniel DeGrave, who was armed with pepper spray, and Josiah Colt, who gained notoriety for hanging from the Senate balcony, are also awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to felony charges. The day before this plea hearing, the judge in their case, Emmet Sullivan, was swatted (a dangerous practice in which someone pretends to be another person and reports a dangerous situation to gather a police response at the victim's home) by a supporter of January 6th defendants.

     Elmer Stewart Rhodes III, Thomas Caldwell, Kelly Meggs, Kenneth Harrelson, and Jessica Watkins began a two-month trial for seditious conspiracy on allegations that the Oath Keepers brought weapons and explosives to Virginia, organized a Quick Reaction Force and stack teams to storm the Capitol, and engaged in criminal activities on Capitol grounds. William Todd Wilson, one of three Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty to the charge, is expected to testify.

     View last week's weekly rioter roundup here.