First Proud Boys members sentenced for seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 Capitol attack

FILE – Violent insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File). Inset top: Joseph Biggs, a Proud Boys member convicted of seditious conspiracy, inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 (via FBI court filing). Inset bottom: Zachary Rehl is seen outside the Capitol on Jan. 6 (via FBI court filing).

The first Proud Boys members to be sentenced for plotting the violent Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol will serve almost two decades behind bars.

Joseph Biggs and Zachary Rehl were handed down sentences of 17 years and 15 years, respectively, by U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly on Thursday. Those sentences come close to the longest sentence issued so far in the government’s wide-ranging prosecution of Jan. 6 rioters; Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes, also convicted of seditious conspiracy, was sentenced to 18 years in May.

According to prosecutors, members of the Proud Boys — a self-described group of “Western Chauvinists” who gained national notoriety after then-President Donald Trump told them to “stand back and stand by” during a September 2020 presidential debate — had been planning for months to engage in violence in order to disrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral win.

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