A judge sentenced former Proud Boys chair Enrique Tarrio to 22 years on Tuesday afternoon for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. His is the longest sentence awarded in a Jan. 6 criminal case so far.
Tarrio was convicted of seditious conspiracy along with three fellow Proud Boys in May. During a four-month trial, a jury heard that Tarrio was a ringleader in an organized plot to sow chaos on Jan. 6. Although Tarrio was not physically present at the Capitol riots (he’d been arrested days earlier on gun charges), he helped plan the attack and sent directions to Proud Boys via a group chat, prosecutors showed.
Prosecutors asked for 33 years in prison for Tarrio. Judge Tim Kelly awarded 22 years in prison with 36 months supervised release, a sentence that included a terrorism enhancement. Kelly, who noted that the enhancement can be applied in instances when a crime was “calculated to influence or affect the conduct of government by intimidation or coercion,” said that the enhancement was not even a “close call” for Tarrio.
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