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

     Jeremy Brown, a Special Forces soldier who appeared in a recruiting photo in the 1990s but was expelled from the military in 2012 for downloading pornography and later ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2020 and 2022, was convicted by a jury in Tampa of six of the 10 felonies he faced for possessing illegal grenades, rifles, and classified national security documents that were discovered in his home during his arrest for January 6th charges. Those misdemeanor charges are still pending in the District of Columbia. He will be sentenced in March; he has been detained since September 2021 after he left a threatening note to law enforcement agents and was denied bond as a result.

     The January 6th Committee revealed that it will hold its final public meeting, a business meeting in which it will approve its final report and make criminal referrals, on December 19th; it announced last week that its final report will be released on December 21st.

     Troy Sargent, a Massachusetts man who bragged about hitting the same rookie cop twice and pleaded guilty in June to two felony and four misdemeanor charges, was sentenced to 14 months in prison with two years of probation and $785 in fines and restitution.

     Matthew Council, the man pictured foaming from the mouth on January 6th who pleaded guilty to felony and misdemeanor charges for charging a line of police officers like a fullback, was sentenced to six months of house arrest with five years of probation. He suffered from alcoholism by age 10, attempted suicide at that age, and suffered repeated concussions that left him with CTE, living off of disability with his parents and suing Liberty University because of his injuries, according to his attorneys. He was sentenced by Trevor McFadden, a judge who has made it his mission to get January 6th defendants off and give them slaps on the wrist when they are convicted.

     Zachariah Sattler, a Maryland man who spent nearly half an hour wandering the Capitol celebrating the insurrection and smoking marijuana, was arrested on misdemeanor charges.

     Isaiah Farnsworth, a Colorado sex offender, electrician, and husband and father, who molested a child in 1999, was injured while pruning a tree on his recently-deceased father's property in 2016 and raised money off of it, and has since moved to Tennessee, was arrested on misdemeanor charges for his actions in what he repeatedly described as "his house" on January 6th, 2021.

     Andrew P. Johnson of Florida (not to be confused with ADAM Johnson, AKA the "Lectern Guy," also of Florida), a police officer who was fired for posting in support of the rioters and was arrested on the night of January 6th for violating the D.C. curfew, was hit with federal misdemeanor charges for entering the Capitol that day.

     Luis Hallon, the husband and friend, respectively, of two fellow Florida female Capitol insurrection defendants charged with felonies for their actions, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of picketing in the Capitol and faces up to six months behind bars when he is sentenced in April.

     Garret Miller, a Texas man who tweeted, "Assassinate AOC," threatened to lynch a Capitol police officer, and was arrested while wearing a shirt that said, "I was there;" pleaded guilty to five felonies and six misdemeanors just before he was set to begin a bench trial on these 11 charges.

     William Kit, a pro-Trump "influencer" who went by the alias "Semore Views," pleaded guilty to a felony charge of carrying a pistol without a license and a misdemeanor charge of entering a restricted building or grounds. This D.C. resident with a pair of drug convictions from the mid-1990s faces up to six months behind bars when he is sentenced.

     Brian Smith, an Alabama man who sparked a stun gun and participated in a confrontation with law enforcement in the tunnel of the Lower West Terrace while wearing olive green military clothing, was arrested on a felony charge of civil disorder and related violent misdemeanors.

     Peter Krill, of Sewell, New Jersey, was charged with two felonies and four misdemeanors for pulling a barricade away from law enforcement officers before spending nearly an hour inside the Capitol.

     Dominic Box, a Savannah political activist who in August 2020 hosted a QAnon rally that was attended by Representative Buddy Carter and was fired from his job at a car dealership in the aftermath of the insurrection, was arrested on four misdemeanor charges for climbing the inauguration scaffolding on Capitol Hill. After his arrest, while not ever mentioning his legal proceedings, he posted a single time on Facebook: an quote from the Book of Isaiah about God helping in times of struggle.

     Israel Easterday, a Kentucky resident who carried a Confederate flag and assaulted a law enforcement officer with chemical spray near the East Rotunda doors, was arrested on multiple misdemeanor and felony charges for his actions.

     Salvador Sandoval, an Iowa man who was seen on video pushing and grabbing law enforcement officers inside the Capitol, was convicted by a judge of six felonies and six misdemeanors and faces up to 60 years in prison when he is sentenced on April 25th, 2023. His mother, Deborah, pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor just before her trial was set to start and faces up to a year behind bars when she is sentenced. 

     Doug Jensen, the QAnon-shirt wearing Iowan who led the charge against Officer Eugene Goodman, was sentenced to five years in prison followed by three years of probation and $2,000 restitution after being convicted by a jury of five felonies in September.

     Michael Scott Lockwood, an Ohio man who was identified by his grandmother, was charged with two felonies and three misdemeanors for wresting a baton from the arms of a law enforcement officer trying to clear the Lower West Terrace and then running into the crowd with it.

     Daniel Egtvedt, a fat Maryland businessman and prominent Trump donor who yelled at police before being shoved headfirst into a pillar, out the door, and down the steps of the U.S. Capitol; was convicted by a judge of four felonies and three misdemeanors while being acquitted of other charges. He faces up to 45 years in prison when he is sentenced on March 16th.

     Gregory Nix, an Alabama man who assaulted law enforcement officers and damaged the East Wing doors with a Gadsden flag, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of assaulting law enforcement with a deadly weapon; he is awaiting sentencing.

     Matthew Capsel, an Illinois man who shouted on the inauguration bleachers of the Lower West Terrace before going viral on TikTok for assaulting National Guard members after a curfew had been declared in Washington, D.C., was sentenced to 18 months in prison followed by two years of probation and $2,000 restitution.

     David Johnston, a South Carolina attorney who was fired from his job after his arrest for his actions on January 6th, was sentenced to 21 days in prison with three months of house arrest and three years of probation after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge in September.

     Scott Miller, a Maryland man who assaulted police in the tunnel with a stolen riot shield and as many other objects as he could get his hands on, was arrested on a long list of felony and misdemeanor charges, bringing the total number of Maryland residents arrested in the insurrection to 30. He has a history of arrests for acts of violence against drag show attendees.

     Edward Kelley, 33, of Maryville, Tennessee, a Capitol insurrection defendant charged with three felonies and related misdemeanors for assaulting police and destroying property on January 6th, was charged with four additional felonies for obtaining a list of the FBI agents investigating him and soliciting 26-year-old Austin Carter, now also charged with four felonies, to murder them, He is now detained without bond and could spend the rest of his life in prison if he is convicted on all counts.

     Jodi Wilson, a MAGA mom of another insurrection suspect who pleaded guilty (Cole Temple) and a friend of two other Ohio suspects sentenced for their roles (Gabriel Burress and Madison Pettit), best known for claiming that a member of Congress invited her into the Capitol building, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of parading in the Capitol building.