Enrique Tarrio convicted of charges, including seditious conspiracy, for role in planning storming of the Capitol
Proud Boys former chairman Enrique Tarrio was convicted over his role in planning the storming of the US Capitol. Photograph: Alison Dinner/APA former chairman of the right-wing Proud Boys group is set to be sentenced on Tuesday for his role in the January 6th, 2021, assault on the US Capitol by supporters of former president Donald Trump trying to overturn his election defeat.
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-US president violently tried to stop Congress from certifying the results of an election that Mr Trump falsely claimed had widespread fraud.
Federal prosecutors have asked US 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 lawyers have asked for a substantially shorter sentence. Judge 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 was jointly the longest handed down so far to a convicted leader of the attack, with Oath Keepers militia founder
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