Proud Boys organizer and Tarrio subordinate Joseph Biggs sentenced in Jan. 6 case to 17 years for seditious conspiracy
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Washington — A top lieutenant of former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Thursday after a jury convicted him, Tarrio, and two others of seditious conspiracy, the most severe crime charged in the Justice Department's investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
Joseph Biggs of Florida was the first of the Proud Boys co-defendants — including Tarrio — to be sentenced after a jury found them guilty of numerous felony counts tied to the riot. Biggs was also convicted of additional charges, including conspiring to obstruct Congress and civil disorder was acquitted on other accusations including assaulting officers and destruction of government property.
Prosecutors had asked U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly to sentence Biggs — an Iraq war veteran who suffered from PTSD and later worked for InfoWars — to 33 years in prison. Tarrio's sentencing was previously set for Wednesday but postponed until Sept. 5 because the judge was sick. He, too, faces a government sentencing request of 33 years behind bars.
