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An off-duty Virginia police officer who stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison.
Former Rocky Mountain police sergeant Thomas Robertson did not speak in court before U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper sentenced him to seven years and three months in prison.
Mr Cooper also sentenced Robertson to three years of supervised release after serving his sentence.
Federal prosecutors had recommended eight years in prison for Robertson. He was handed the same sentence as Guy Reffit, a Texas man who attacked the Capitol with a gun holster.
Robertson was honored for having spent 13 months in prison.
In April, a jury convicted Robertson of attacking the Capitol on January 6, 2021, to prevent Congress from proving President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.
The jury found him guilty on all six counts in the indictment, including charges that he interfered with police at the Capitol and that he entered a restricted area with a dangerous weapon and a large wooden stick.
Robertson traveled to Washington on the morning of Jan. 6 with another off-duty Rocky Mountain police officer, Jacob Fracker, and a third man, a neighbor who was not charged.
Flack was scheduled to stand trial with Robertson before pleading guilty to one conspiracy charge in March and agreeing to cooperate with federal authorities.
Mr Cooper is scheduled to sentence Fracker next Tuesday.
Prosecutors asked Cooper to spare Flacker’s sentence and sentenced him to six months of probation and a period of home detention or “community confinement.”
They said Flack’s “pleasant” cooperation and trial testimony were crucial to securing Robertson’s conviction.
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