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Aug 27, 2024 · Michael Sparks, who was the first defendant to breach the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to 53 months in prison Tuesday for felony and misdemeanor charges.
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Aug 27, 2024 · WASHINGTON — The very first rioter to breach the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison Tuesday after he told a judge he still believes...
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Aug 27, 2024 · The first rioter to enter the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 in an attempt to stop the official certification of the US presidential election has been sentenced to more than four years in prison....
Aug 27, 2024 · WASHINGTON (AP) — A Kentucky man who was the first rioter to enter the U.S. Capitol during a mob’s attack on the building was sentenced on Tuesday to more than four years in prison. A police officer who tried to subdue Michael Sparks with pepper spray described him as a catalyst for the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Aug 27, 2024 · The first rioter to breach the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in prison, federal prosecutors announced.
Aug 28, 2024 · A man who prosecutors say was the first to breach the Capitol building during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot was sentenced on Tuesday to more than four years in prison. Michael Sparks, 47, of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, was sentenced to 53 months in prison, 36 months of supervised release, and charged a $2,000 fine, after being found guilty of obstruction ...
Aug 28, 2024 · A judge sentenced Kentuckian Michael Sparks, the first rioter to breach the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, this week to more than four years in prison. A federal judge in Washington sentenced...
