Virginia man gets prison for January 6 Capitol breach

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Source: WDBJ 7

By Pat Thomas
Published: Mar. 21, 2023 at 10:44 AM PDT

WASHINGTON, DC (WDBJ) - A Mechanicsville man was sentenced Tuesday in the District of Columbia for assaulting law enforcement officers and other charges connected to the Capitol breach Jan. 6, 2021, which led to the disruption of a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to count electoral votes related to the presidential election, according to the US Attorney’s Office.

Geoffrey William Sills, 31, was sentenced to 52 months in prison for obstruction of an official proceeding, assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon and robbery; all charges are felonies.

Sills was found guilty in August 2022, following a bench trial before U.S. District Court Judge Trevor N. McFadden. Sills was indicted with eight other defendants, five of whom have been convicted, and three of whom are awaiting trial. In addition to the prison term, Sills was ordered to pay $2,000 restitution and serve 36 months of supervised release.

Per the US Attorney’s Office, according to court documents, on Jan. 6, 2021, “Sills illegally entered the Capitol grounds after earlier attending a rally at the Ellipse. He joined in the violence that occurred in the tunnel area of the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace. From approximately 2:40 p.m., law enforcement officers maintained a line at the second set of glass doors inside the tunnel leading from the inaugural platform to the entrance to the Capitol. These officers fought a group of rioters -- including the defendants -- inside the tunnel, protecting the doors, until approximately 3:19 p.m. when they cleared them from the tunnel. Clashes continued throughout the afternoon.”

Read more: https://www.wdbj7.com/2023/03/21/virginia-man-gets-prison-january-6-capitol-breach/

[Effete Snob]

1. These are always better with the pictures

I'd like to believe there are some civic-minded folks who will keep an eye on these people in the future and see too it that they never spend a day without looking over their shoulder when they get out.

[underpants]

2. Thanks I was just about to do that.

Mechanicsville is about 5 miles from here. Doesn’t surprise me. Parts of Hanover County have permanent 4x4 posted plywood signs about Benghazi, Hillary, I’m sure stuff about Joe now.

We played golf out there once. Passed several signs. When we got to the parking lot the first thing an old friend who doesn’t live around here said when he got out of his car was “What the F is with those signs?!?” Red red red country.

[moniss]

3. Sounds like what

people experience when they visit areas of Pennsyltucky and Wisissippi.

[AverageOldGuy]

7. Mechanicsville Tea Party

Those signs are the work of the Mechanicsville Tea Party, which is down to about 3 members, all of the doddering old farts . . . but they do love their signs.

[underpants]

8. Thanks.

I tended to see them going to play at Hanover Country Club. It’s open to the public.

[republianmushroom]

4. I like it

[LoisB]

5. Good.

[AverageOldGuy]

6. FAFO

Glad to hear this.

I live in a rural VA county near Mechanicsville. In our area is a group calling themselves the "Northern Neck Patriots." (Virginia's Northern Neck is a group of six counties on a peninsula border by the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers and the Chesapeake Bay.)

In the Northern Neck town of Warsaw is the Northern Neck Regional Jail, which houses prisoners from surrounding counties as well as federal inmates awaiting trail or sentencing. This guy has been in NNeck Regional for months.

The "Patriots" have taken up the "J6ers" (as they are called ) in NNeck Regional as their project. The "Patriots" are at the jail all the time, claiming the J6ers are being starved, beaten, denied their rights; demanding that the warden be investigated; and generally making asses of themselves.

Glad to see this guy be sentenced as he is one of the "Patriots" favorite people.