An Army veteran who re-enlisted after assaulting police on Jan. 6 was sentenced to more than 3 years
A member of the U.S. Army who re-enlisted in the military after he pepper sprayed cops at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was sentenced to more than 3.5 years in prison on Friday.
WASHINGTON — A member of the United States Army who re-enlisted in the military after he pepper sprayed cops at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was sentenced to more than 3.5 years in prison on Friday.
James Mault was fired from his union job after the insurrection, but was able to re-enlist in the U.S. Army even though he had been interviewed by the FBI about his actions on Jan. 6. At the time of the initial FBI interview, the bureau was apparently unaware that he assaulted officers that day.
Chief Judge Beryl Howell sentenced Mault alongside his co-defendant Cody Mattice. Both received 44 months in prison, as well as three years of supervised release. Howell said that Mault and Mattice had preplanned for violence.
“They were not patriots on Jan. 6,” Howell said. “No one who broke police lines that day were. They were criminals.”
Homeland Security watchdog accuses Secret Service of deleting text messages around time of Jan. 6July 15, 202203:24Mault was arrested in October after the FBI realized that he had been caught on tape assaulting officers. Mault was arrested at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, where he was working as an artillery cannon crew member, and pleaded guilty.
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