Robert Gieswein, of Woodland Park, was wearing a helmet, a flak jacket and goggles and was carrying a baseball bat when he stormed the Capitol.
Gieswein, then 24, marched to the building from the Washington Monument with the Proud Boys but wasn’t a member of the group.and pushed against a line of police, according to a court filing accompanying his guilty plea to assault charges.to two charges of assaulting or interfering with a federal officer. Each count carried a maximum sentence of up to eight years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
“You were a foot soldier in one of the most disturbing riots our nation has seen in years,” U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden told Gieswein, who gets credit for the more than two years that he already has served in custody. Federal authorities have said Gieswein appeared to be an adherent of the Three Percenters militia movement and ran a private paramilitary training group called the Woodland Wild Dogs.
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