An Idaho Falls man is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 12 for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol Building.
Tyler John Tew pleaded guilty to all four federal charges against him in a June 13 hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robin M. Meriweather.
An image from a video recording Tyler Tew took with his phone before rioters marched toward the U.S. Capitol building.
Tew is guilty of misdemeanor counts of:
• Entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds. The charge is punishable with up to one year in prison.
• Disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds. The charge is punishable with a fine of not more than one year in prison, or both.
• Disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. The charge is punishable with up to six months in prison.
• Parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. The charge is punishable with fines or up to one year in prison.
The indictment in the case, filed by the FBI, included media recorded both by security cameras as well as photos and video Tew himself recorded on a cellphone. It also includes several Facebook posts Tew made before, during and after the riot.
Tew was in and around the Capitol for more than two hours during the riot. The information about how long Tew remained on the Capitol grounds was obtained from GPS data on his cellphone and was included in the criminal complaint against him.
More than 1,000 people have been arrested for their participation in the Jan. 6 riot and arrests are ongoing.
The Architect of the Capitol estimated the riot caused more than $2.7 million in damages but the total societal and real cost are far greater, according to government estimates.
A February report on the Capitol attack from the United States Government Accountability Office found that the events “led to at least seven deaths and caused about $2.7 billion in estimated costs,” which include “among other things, damage to the Capitol building and grounds, estimated costs borne by the Capitol Police, the District of Columbia, and federal agencies, and estimated costs to address security needs and investigations as described in budget and funding requests, appropriations, agency estimates, and other publicly available information.”
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Trump will pardon them all on Jan 20 2025. So....
Choke on it you leftist scumbags.
Trump will likely be in jail himself by then. Choke on that peckerwoods.
This poor rube will have to spend this election cycle (and probably the next few) in the time-out chair. Oh well.
Nowadays all terrorists have to weigh the benefit of packing a phone to their riot. I don't think they get to take them to jail .
How will they take selfies then? Cruel and unusual.
The two antifa professors who threw molotov cocktails into occupied police cars aren't in prison yet and won't get this amount of time with these
Leftist activist judges. Only in America.
Probably should have just given them life.
Political persecution tends to leave one pisssed
Off when you get out of prison.
Maybe he can cry big crocodile tears for the judge....Oh wait, that didn't work for the proud boys.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Hang his treasonous traitor. The uneducated Republican party is an embarrassment to humanity. The constant lies to get their brainwashed base fired up is almost comical.
Republicans really should be smart enough to stay out of these chithole leftist run big cities...
It's illegal there for a Republican to defend himself and it's not exactly a jury of your peers.
You won't receive a fair trial. Let the democrats wallow in their chithole cities.
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