A Tennessee bartender who carried plastic zip tie handcuffs and a stun gun into the Senate gallery on Jan. 6, 2021, where he was captured in one the most widely shared photos of the U.S. Capitol riot, was sentenced on Friday to nearly five years in prison.
, 32, was convicted of conspiracy and other charges alongside his mother, Lisa Eisenhart, 59, who was also sentenced on Friday to two-and-a-half years in prison., who was dressed like a member of a SWAT team, jumping over a railing in the Senate gallery with a handful of zip-tie handcuffs in his hand. Lawmakers preparing to certify President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory had fled the Senate floor only minutes before rioters invaded the chamber.
Prosecutors had recommended prison sentences of four years and nine months for Munchel and three years and 10 months for Eisenhart, of Woodstock Georgia, who has worked as a nurse for over 30 years.Munchel and his mother traveled from Nashville, Tennessee, to Washington, D.C., two days before then-President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally near the White House.
Munchel and his mother only spent about 12 minutes inside the Capitol, but they managed to penetrate and occupy “one of the most sensitive and sacred areas of the Capitol,” prosecutors said., searched his home and seized zip ties matching those he stole at the Capitol. Einsenhart was arrested 10 days after the riot. Both of them remained jailed for over two months after their arrests.
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