Ex-Military Police Officer Sentenced to Prison for Role in Capitol Riot
The New York Times
Gregory C. Yetman, the subject of a manhunt last fall, admitted to pepper-spraying law enforcement officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.
A former Army National Guard police officer was sentenced to two and a half years in prison on Tuesday after admitting that he pepper-sprayed law enforcement officers, while a mob of former President Donald J. Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The sentencing of the former Guard member, Gregory C. Yetman, 47, of Helmetta, N.J., came eight months after he set off a manhunt in the central New Jersey suburbs by fleeing into the woods when law enforcement authorities sought to arrest him.
He surrendered two days later, and in April he pleaded guilty to assaulting, resisting or impeding officers during the Capitol riot, federal prosecutors said.
Judge James E. Boasberg of Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., also sentenced Mr. Yetman to 18 months of supervised release and ordered him to pay $2,000 in restitution. Prosecutors had sought a 45-month prison term; Mr. Yetman’s lawyer, Nicholas D. Smith, had asked for 17 months. Mr. Smith declined to comment on the sentence.
Mr. Yetman is among more than 1,470 people to be charged in connection with the riot and among more than 530 to be charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement officers, according to the Justice Department. He and other supporters of Mr. Trump stormed the Capitol in a bid to prevent the certification of Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election. The investigation into the day’s events is continuing.
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