{"id":1603184,"date":"2022-08-12T11:55:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T15:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1603184"},"modified":"2022-08-12T11:55:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T15:55:43","slug":"former-police-officer-gets-seven-years-for-jan-6-riot-tying-longest-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-police-officer-gets-seven-years-for-jan-6-riot-tying-longest-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Police Officer Gets Seven Years For Jan. 6 Riot, Tying Longest Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-police-officer-gets-seven-years-for-jan-6-riot-tying-longest-sentence%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1603184&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A former Virginia police officer was sentenced Thursday to more than seven years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, tying for the longest sentence served to a participant.<\/p>\n<p>Former police officer Thomas Robertson entered the U.S. Capitol building while wielding a large wooden stick, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-dc\/pr\/duty-police-officer-sentenced-87-months-prison-charges-related-capitol-breach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) release about the sentence. He is now tied with militia recruiter Guy Reffitt for receiving the longest sentence served to a participant in the Jan. 6 riots.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson was convicted in April for obstructing Congress during its meeting to certify the 2020 presidential election results, civil disorder, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds while carrying a dangerous weapon disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building while carrying a dangerous weapon, and tampering with a document or proceedings, the DOJ said.<\/p>\n<p>He owes $2,000 in restitution and will be supervised for three years after his release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThomas Robertson, despite swearing an oath of office when he became a police officer, joined the violent mob at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and did so while armed,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves in a statement. \u201cToday\u2019s sentence holds him accountable for his role in the violence that day.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/09\/voters-trump-responsible-jan-6-democrats-select-committee-hearings-monmouth-university-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Voters Find Trump Less Responsible For Jan. 6 After Dems\u2019 Prime-Time Hearings)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"rev-more-content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_7474125\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7474125\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7474125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1230454445-scaled-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1230454445-scaled-1.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-1230454445-180x120.jpeg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1230454445-620x413-1.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1230454445-768x512-1.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1230454445-1536x1024-1.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1230454445-2048x1366-1.jpeg 2048w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7474125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 JANUARY 06: Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Samuel Corum\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Reffitt, a recruiter for anti-government Three Percenters militia, was sentenced to seven years in prison in August. He was found guilty in March for obstruction of Congress, interfering with police in a riot, transporting a firearm for that purpose, armed trespassing and witness tampering, The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2022\/08\/01\/reffitt-sentence-jan6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors tired to get him imprisoned for 15 years, applying a terrorism sentencing penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson\u2019s co-defendant and fellow former officer Jacob Fracker, who pleaded guilty in March to a federal conspiracy charge, will be sentenced on Aug. 16, the DOJ said.<\/p>\n<p>Over 860 individuals have been arrested for participation in the Capitol riots so far.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Virginia police officer was sentenced Thursday to more than seven years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, tying for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1125,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1603184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}