Left: Washington Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Shane Lamond departs federal court after pleading not guilty to obstruction of justice and other charges, May 19, 2023, in Washington (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File). Right: Enrique Tarrio and the Proud Boys demonstrate near Freedom Plaza during the Million Maga March protest regarding election results on November 14, 2020, in Washington, D.C. (Chris Tuite/imageSPACE/MediaPunch /IPX).
The former Washington, D.C., police officer who tipped off the national chairman of the Proud Boys about his impending arrest ahead of organizing the group”s role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has scored a big victory from the judge overseeing his case, who has since told federal officials that he should not be tagged with a “domestic terrorism” label.
As Law&Crime has previously reported, Shane Lamond, who once headed the Metropolitan Police Department’s Intelligence Branch, was convicted in December of obstruction of justice and lying to investigators in connection with the investigation into Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio’s impending arrest over the December 2020 destruction of a Black Lives Matter banner at an historic Washington, D.C., church.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Lamond in June to 18 months in prison.
On Friday — the day Jackson had ordered Lamond to report for his sentence — Lamond’s legal team filed a motion asking Jackson to clarify her judgment. The filing was sparked, the lawyers say, by the discovery that Lamond had been assigned to serve his sentence at Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) Atlanta, and not a “low security camp” that, according to Lamond and the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), is the appropriate place for him to do his time, given his status as a “non-violent first offender.”
The motion explained that the reason for assignment to FCI Atlanta was because Lamond’s conviction had been linked to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and that the BOP had a policy of designating Jan. 6 crimes as “domestic terrorism” — an enhancement that would preclude him from being sent to a lower security facility.
As a result, Lamond’s lawyers said, the onetime police officer was facing the likelihood of being sent to a prison that normally houses people “convicted of more serious crimes” than Lamond — and where, “[a]s a law enforcement officer, he is at a higher risk of being victimized in prison.”
The defense lawyers asked the judge to help send Lamond to a lower-security facility by sending a clear message to the BOP.
“[Lamond] requests that the Court issue a specific recommendation to BOP that makes clear that Mr. Lamond is not affiliated or associated with January 6 itself, and that he should not receive any enhancement for domestic terrorism or any other BOP enhancement applicable to January 6th defendants,” the motion said.
Lamond’s attorneys offered suggested language that Jackson could use:
Ideally, this language would be included in the judgment itself under the heading “Imprisonment” and recommend that Mr. Lamond be designated to “the camp at FCI Cumberland or another camp as close to family as possible, but that he not receive any enhancement for domestic terrorism nor any other BOP enhancement applicable to January 6th defendants, because Mr. LAMOND IS NOT AFFILIATED OR ASSOCIATED WITH JANUARY 6th.”
The defendant also asked for a two-month extension on the deadline for him to report to the BOP to begin serving his sentence.
The motion noted that federal prosecutors did not oppose the reporting delay and didn’t “take a position on the request recommendation.”
On Friday, Jackson, a Barack Obama appointee, granted both of Lamond’s requests.
FILE – Violent rioters loyal to President Donald Trump storm the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
“To the extent this is necessary, the Court hereby clarifies, at the defendant’s request, that defendant was NOT convicted of a January 6 offense, and that his conviction is not based on any events that occurred that day or any actions by him that could qualify as ‘domestic terrorism,'” Jackson wrote in her order Friday. She added that this “should be clear” from a review of the indictment, both parties’ sentencing memos, and the transcript of Jackson’s own verdict.
“Given the need to address the designation issue with the BOP, the defendant’s motion to extend the latest report date up to October 1, 2025 will also be granted,” Jackson’s order added.
Lamond, who federal prosecutors said was “acting as a double agent” to help the Proud Boys, was convicted in a seven-day bench trial in which Jackson found that the retired police officer was leaking confidential information to Tarrio. In September 2023, Tarrio was sentenced to more than two decades behind bars for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
In January 2025, that sentence evaporated after President Donald Trump issued a sweeping grant of clemency for those who participated in the violent chaos at the Capitol that day.
