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Enrique Tarrio was convicted of charges, including seditious
conspiracy, for his role in planning the storming of the
Capitol, when thousands of supporters of the Republican
then-U.S. president violently tried to stop Congress from
certifying the results of an election that Trump falsely claimed
had widespread fraud.
Federal prosecutors have asked U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly
to impose a 33-year prison sentence on Tarrio, who was not
present at the Capitol on the day of the violence because
another judge had ordered him to stay out of Washington.
Prosecutors said he helped direct the attack from Baltimore.
Tarrio's attorneys have asked for a substantially shorter
sentence. Kelly last week sentenced another far-right Proud Boys
leader, Ethan Nordean, to 18 years, less than the 27 years
prosecutors had sought. That prison term tied the longest handed
down so far to a convicted leader of the attack, with Oath
Keepers militia founder Stewart Rhodes in May also sentenced to
18 years.
More than 1,100 people have been arrested on charges related to
the Capitol assault, and of those at least 630 have pleaded
guilty and at least 110 have been convicted at trial. Five
people, including a police officer, died during or shortly after
the riot and more than 140 police officers were injured. The
Capitol suffered millions of dollars in damage.
Special Counsel Jack Smith, who was tapped to investigate
broader efforts to overturn the 2020 election, has since charged
Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential
nomination, for trying to keep himself in power.
(Reporting by Scott Malone; Editing by Aurora Ellis)
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