A Hollywood actor finest identified for roles in Anchorman and Mr. Present has been sentenced over his position within the January 6 US Capitol riots.
Jay Johnston, who additionally had supporting roles in Arrested Growth and Bob’s Burgers, was sentenced to 12 months and a day in federal jail on Monday.
The 56-year-old from Chicago was arrested in June 2023 and pleaded responsible in July to a felony offence of obstructing officers throughout a civil dysfunction.
He was dropped as a featured voice in Bob’s Burgers lengthy earlier than the authorized repercussions of his involvement.
Of their sentencing memo, federal prosecutors, who had sought a sentence of 18 months, included a photograph of him “dressing up as Jacob Chansley, known as the ‘QAnon Shaman'” at a Halloween get together two years after the assault.
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Jay Johnston on the US Capitol. Pic: FBI
Prosecutors stated Johnston spent about 10 minutes within the decrease west tunnel that leads into the Capitol on 6 January 2021.
Throughout that point, he was accused of getting helped “at least four other rioters” wash their eyes out after being sprayed with pepper spray.
He was additionally accused of getting used a stolen riot protect to make a “shield wall” in opposition to the police and took part in a “heave-ho” push that crushed officer Daniel Hodges in opposition to a door body.
Johnston “sent messages to friends and family in the days after 6 January claiming the events at the US Capitol were exaggerated by the media”, prosecutors added.
Lawyer Stanley Woodward, representing Johnston, stated the federal government had “persistently overstated” his shopper’s position within the assault “because he is an acclaimed Hollywood actor”.
In a sentencing memo, Mr Woodward wrote that Johnston “had not been able to sustain his livelihood as an actor” and he had “essentially been blacklisted by Hollywood”.
Greater than 1,500 folks have been arrested in reference to the assault on the Capitol, with 1,100 of these having been convicted.
Greater than 600 of these convicted have been sentenced to intervals of incarceration starting from just a few days behind bars to 22 years in federal jail.
