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Guy Reffitt, the North Texas man who was found guilty earlier this year of taking part in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, apologized Monday and said he regretted everything before being sentenced to 87 months in federal prison.

Federal prosecutors are seeking a 15-year prison sentence for a Texas man who was convicted of storming the U.S. Capitol with a holstered handgun. If a judge accepts the Justice Department’s recommendation, Guy Wesley Reffitt’s prison sentence would be nearly three times the length of the longest sentence for any of the defendants who have been sentenced for crimes related...

Reffitt will be sentenced on June 8. He could receive 20 years in prison on the top charge alone

Guy Reffitt was convicted Tuesday of storming the U.S. Capitol with a holstered handgun, a milestone victory for federal prosecutors in the first trial among hundreds of cases arising from last year’s riot.

A federal jury convicted Wylie’s Guy Reffitt of storming the U.S. Capitol with a gun in the first trial over the Jan. 6 riot.

Federal prosecutors on Monday finished presenting testimony against a Texas man who is the first person to be tried on charges related to the riot at the U.S. Capitol last year.

The first person to be tried in the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol was a Texas militia member who advocated for physically removing and replacing “corrupt” members of Congress as he drove to Washington, D.C., a former group member testified Friday.

The son of a Texas man charged with storming the U.S. Capitol with a holstered gun testified Thursday that he secretly recorded his father proudly describing his role in the riot and gave the audio file to an FBI agent after his father, a militia member, threatened him and his sister.

The son of a Wylie man charged with storming the U.S. Capitol testified that he secretly recorded his father proudly describing his role in the riot and gave the audio file to an FBI agent.

This is the first case from the January 6 attack on the Capitol that is now going to trial.

A militia leader from Wylie “lit the match that started the fire” of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last year, a federal prosecutor told jurors Wednesday in the first trial of alleged rioters.

Jury selection resumed on Tuesday in the trial of a North Texas man who is one of the hundreds of Donald Trump supporters charged with storming the U.S. Capitol last year.

The first trial for one of the hundreds of Capitol riot prosecutions began this week, with jury selection starting Monday for the case against Guy Wesley Reffitt.