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Founder of Proud Boys' Hawaii chapter, Texas man sentenced to 4 years in Jan. 6 riot
The founder of Hawaii's Proud Boys chapter and a Texas man were sentenced Friday to four years each in prison for their participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Nicholas Ochs, 36, of Honolulu, and Nicholas DeCarlo, 32, of Fort Worth, Texas, threw smoke bombs at police, illegally entered the Capitol and filmed themselves smoking cigarettes inside, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said in a statement Friday.
The pair pleaded guilty in September to obstruction of an official proceeding.
DeCarlo also wrote “Murder the Media” with a marker on the Chestnut-Gibson Memorial Door to the Capitol as Ochs recorded, prosecutors said.
The phrase was what the two called an online channel they used to communicate, prosecutors said. DeCarlo is seen in images from the day wearing a shirt and hat with the phrase, they said.
In their sentencing memo, prosecutors tried to convey the seriousness of the duo's crime, and said Ochs had pointed lost rioters toward the Speaker’s Office.
"These were no teenage pranks," they wrote. "Ochs’ conduct targeted the police and Congress — and like the conduct of every rioter that day, threatened democracy itself."
Many
Are
Getting
Arrested
The founder of Hawaii's Proud Boys chapter and a Texas man were sentenced Friday to four years each in prison for their participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Nicholas Ochs, 36, of Honolulu, and Nicholas DeCarlo, 32, of Fort Worth, Texas, threw smoke bombs at police, illegally entered the Capitol and filmed themselves smoking cigarettes inside, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said in a statement Friday.
The pair pleaded guilty in September to obstruction of an official proceeding.
DeCarlo also wrote “Murder the Media” with a marker on the Chestnut-Gibson Memorial Door to the Capitol as Ochs recorded, prosecutors said.
The phrase was what the two called an online channel they used to communicate, prosecutors said. DeCarlo is seen in images from the day wearing a shirt and hat with the phrase, they said.
In their sentencing memo, prosecutors tried to convey the seriousness of the duo's crime, and said Ochs had pointed lost rioters toward the Speaker’s Office.
"These were no teenage pranks," they wrote. "Ochs’ conduct targeted the police and Congress — and like the conduct of every rioter that day, threatened democracy itself."
Many
Are
Getting
Arrested
