Army veteran sentenced to 7 years after storming Capitol with loaded pistol, ramming police with pallet

Harris Marley

World Courant

A army veteran who stormed the U.S. Capitol with a loaded pistol, metal-plated physique armor and a fuel masks was sentenced on Wednesday to seven years in jail, one of many longest amongst tons of of Jan. 6 riot instances.

Christopher Michael Alberts, 35, of Pylesville, Maryland, is not accused of brandishing his hid gun through the riot on Jan. 6, 2021. However he used a wood pallet as a makeshift battering ram in opposition to law enforcement officials who have been guarding a stairwell outdoors the Capitol, based on federal prosecutors.

Alberts instructed U.S. District Choose Christopher Cooper that he was making an attempt to guard others outdoors the Capitol as police deployed tear fuel and non-lethal munitions to carry again the mob.

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Alberts was the primary rioter to succeed in the northwest steps outdoors the Capitol and the primary to “go fingers on” with a Capitol police officer at that a part of the complicated, prosecutors mentioned.

“Alberts, together with his physique armor, fuel masks, army gear, and rage, rallied and instigated the mob,” prosecutors wrote in a court docket submitting.

Cooper additionally sentenced Alberts to a few years of supervised launch after his jail time period. Prosecutors requested for Alberts to be taken into custody instantly after his sentencing, however the choose allowed him to stay free till he experiences to jail at a date to be decided.

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