FBI
A man with ties to the Texas Three Percenters, a far-right militia movement, showed up to the Capitol riot last year with zip ties and a handgun on his hip. “We’re all going to drag them motherfuckers out kicking and screaming,” he had recorded himself saying just hours before.
On Monday, that man, 49-year-old Guy Reffitt, received the longest sentence yet handed down over the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
Reffitt was sentenced by a federal judge to 87 months, or just over 7 years, in prison. The first Jan. 6 defendant to go on trial, the Wylie native was convicted on five felony counts in March, including obstruction of Congress, interfering with police, and carrying a firearm to a riot.