US Man Found Guilty of 5 Felony Charges in Jan 6 Riot Trial
HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – The first person to stand trial in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots was found guilty Tuesday on all federal charges filed against him.
The jury in Washington, DC took less than four hours to find 49-year-old Guy Reffitt of Wylie, Texas – a suburb 30 miles northeast of Dallas – guilty on all five felony counts.
The charges against Reffitt included taking a gun with him to the Capitol on January 6, obstructing an official proceeding, and obstruction of justice by threatening his own children, saying “if you turn me in, you’re a traitor and traitors get shot.”
Reffitt was accused of bringing a semiautomatic pistol to the US Capitol last year and storming the building alongside hundreds of other rioters to disrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
The riots left five people dead, including a Capitol police officer. 140 officers were injured.
Reffitt’s sentencing is scheduled for June. He faces up to 60 years in prison.
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