A man implicated in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison, federal authorities announced this Saturday.
The subject, identified as Jeffrey Scott Brown, 56, of Southern California, was sentenced to 54 months in federal prison for felony and misdemeanor charges related to the attack by supporters of former President Donald Trump, the Department of Justice said. Justice in a press release.
It was also determined that Brown assaulted a police officer using pepper spray, according to federal authorities.
To date, more than 1,000 people have been arrested, and about 320 have been charged with hindering law enforcement, as well as assault charges, the Justice Department said.
The arrests came after supporters of the former Republican president tried to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory in the November 2020 presidential election.
Prosecutors were seeking a 70-month sentence for Brown, arguing that the suspect dove into a makeshift police line and assaulted them with a stolen can of pepper spray handed to him by another protester who is currently under arrest.
According to court documents, Brown’s attorney, Samuel C. Moore, requested 40 months in prison, ABC News reported.
The attorney noted that his client’s conduct involved “less than 10 minutes of Mr. Brown’s life,” and the alleged pepper spray “did not make contact with any specific victim.”
However, Moore said that Brown admitted that he should never have been in the Capitol tunnel that day, and that he has taken responsibility for this.
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