William Dunfee appears in photos at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 (U.S. Attorney’s Office).
An Ohio pastor who urged the Jan. 6 mob to “rise up” and insisted “we are not sheeple” will spend years in prison.
William Dunfee, 59, was sentenced on Thursday to 30 months — or 2½ years — in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced in a news release. He was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and $2,000 restitution. Dunfee was convicted in January of obstruction, civil disorder and trespassing following a bench trial.
According to a statement of facts outlining the case, the series of events leading to the defendant’s participation in the riots that day began on Dec. 27, 2020, when the pastor at New Beginnings Ministry Warsaw in Warsaw, Ohio, took to the ministry’s Facebook page, telling his congregants that “The Government, the tyrants, the socialists, the Marxists, the progressives, the RINOs, they fear you. And they should. Our problem is we haven’t given them reason to fear us.”
