Kentucky rioter sentenced to longest sentence yet in January 6 case: 14 years
MICHAEL KUNZELMANMay 5, 2023
A Kentucky man with a long criminal record was sentenced Friday to
about a record setting
14 years in prison for attacking police officers with pepper spray when he stormed the US Capitol with his wife.
Peter Schwartz’s prison sentence is the longest to date of hundreds of riot cases at the Capitol.
The judge who sentenced him had also handed down the previous longest sentence of 10 years to a retired New York Police Department officer who assaulted a police officer outside the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Prosecutors had recommended a prison sentence of 24 years and 6 months for Schwartz, a welder.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta sentenced him to 170 months in prison.
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