WASHINGTON — Former New Jersey National Guard police Sgt he went to run In November, the FBI came to arrest him in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, after which he pleaded guilty Thursday to assaulting officers.
Gregory Yetman At a hearing before U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg, he pleaded guilty to assaulting, resisting or obstructing officers with physical contact and intent to commit another crime. The parties agreed that Yetman’s sentence should be between 37 and 46 months in federal prison.
Yetman, a heavy equipment operator who was a military police officer at the time, admitted that he attended a speech by President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021, and that he understood Trump saying they were going to the Capitol.
“Yetman then went to the west side of the US Capitol building where he heard people chanting ‘Stop the robbery.’ While there, he heard ‘crashing noises’ and observed tear gas being fired by the US Capitol Police who were defending the Capitol. agreed criminal statement. “He observed rioters being subjected to tear gas and oleoresin pepper (“OC”) spray and watched other rioters attempt to break windows. He also saw a police officer being pulled into the crowd, but did not attempt to help the officer.”
Yetman then saw the officers surrounded by other members of the gang, grabbed a can of OC spray and “deliberately attacked the same group of police officers who were surrounded by spraying the drug.”
Yetman also admitted that when the FBI came to arrest him, he dropped the knife and his cell phone and fled. He admitted that law enforcement officers “found a large number of firearms and a large amount of ammunition at his residence, loaded firearms in his car, and additional firearms and weapons in the warehouse.”
Until now, it was Yetman About 15 January 6 one of the suspects held in pre-trial detention without being found guilty of committing a crime.
In the more than three years since Jan. 6, prosecutors have indicted more than 1,387 Capitol attack defendants and handed down more than 984 convictions and more than 520 prison terms from days to days behind bars. 22 years in federal prison.