A man who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 and stole a wallet and framed photo of the late Rep. John Lewis from then-Speaker Pelosi’s office has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison.
, a 40-year-old father from Chicago, was previously found guilty of a felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding along with disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building and entering and remaining in a restricted building.
"It was the mob that was more like the Nazis and the fascists that day," Howell said, saying it was"bizarrely ironic" for Lyons to refer to officers as Nazis"when the shoe is on the other foot."USDC District of Columbia "Lyons left the Capitol via an Uber before traveling back to the Chicago," federal prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo."That night he texted some friends a picture of the stolen photograph with an admission that he took the photograph. He then bragged, 'I’m pretty confident I am now a multiple Federal felon.' The photograph was never recovered."
"I'm a pretty eccentric person, you might be able to tell," Lyons said, gesticulating at the podium."I let the crowd and the mob and stuff kind of take over me. ... It's insane, I can't believe it." He said he was sorry for the impact that his crimes had on his 16-year-old and 13-year-old sons.
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