Guy Reffitt has been jailed for seven years over his involvement in the January 6 insurrection, including bringing a gun onto the US Capitol grounds and obstructing an official proceeding.
An artist sketch depicting Guy Wesley Reffitt, left, joined by his lawyer William Welch in Federal Court, in Washington, on 28 February, 2022.An associate of the Three Percenters militia has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison after he joined a mob of former president Donald Trump's supporters to storm the US Capitol on 6 January, 2021.
Ms Friedrich declined to apply a domestic terrorism enhancement to her sentence - the first requested in a January 6 case — even though the lead federal prosecutor and a former Capitol Police officer who provided a victim impact statement both said they believed Reffitt committed an act of terrorism that day.
His trial included testimony from his estranged son Jackson, who brought his father to tears as he told the jury that his father threatened him if he dared call the FBI. In one text exchange, he told other militia members: "We took the Capital of the United States of America and we will do it again." Ahead of the sentence announcement, Reffitt said in 2020, he was "a little too crazy" and openly apologised to police and his family.
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