A retired police lieutenant in Washington, D.C. was found guilty of obstructing justice and making false statements after leaking confidential information to the former leader of the Proud Boys extremist group.
A retired police officer in Washington, D.C. was convicted Monday of lying to authorities about leaking confidential information to the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson convicted former Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Shane Lamond of obstructing justice and making false statements after a trial without a jury.
Lamond was charged with leaking information to former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio, who was then under investigation in the burning of a Black Lives Matter banner. Tarrio eventually pleaded guilty to burning the banner stolen from a historic Black church in downtown Washington in December 2020. He was later sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, part of what prosecutors called a plot to use force keep Donald Trump in the White House after the 2020 election. Lamond, who met Tarrio in 2019, had supervised the intelligence branch of the police department’s Homeland Security Bureau. He was responsible for monitoring groups like the Proud Boys when they came to Washington. Tarrio was arrested in Washington two days before the Jan. 6 siege. The Miami resident wasn’t at the Capitol when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the building and interrupted the congressional certification of Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. Lamond testified at his bench trial that he never provided Tarrio with sensitive police informatio
PROUD BOYS ENRIQUE TARRIO POLICE LEAK OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE WASHINGTON D.C.
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