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NBC News reports:
A Donald Trump supporter who brought two guns to the Capitol on Jan. 6, and dropped one of them on Capitol grounds, was sentenced to five years in federal prison on Friday. Mark Mazza was sentenced to 60 months behind bars by Judge James E. Boasberg. Before he was sentenced, Mazza told the court he got “caught up in a mob mentality that I never anticipated” and that he was “not quite the monster that the prosecution has described me as.”
Although Mazza now admits he lost one of his guns at the U.S. Capitol, he filed a false police report claiming it was stolen back in his home state of Indiana. Federal prosecutors said that Mazza, “while armed with [a] .40 caliber loaded firearm, engaged in multiple efforts to break through the police line: he repeatedly pushed against officers using the combined physical exertion of the mob; he armed himself with a stolen police baton and assaulted officers with the baton.
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Mazza has been jailed since his arrest last year.
? SENTENCE: Mark Mazza, of Shelbyville, Indiana, ordered to serve 60 months in prison on one count of assaulting police with a dangerous weapon and one local firearms charge. Three years of supervised release will follow. https://t.co/Mpsj0VVOVU
— Jordan Fischer (@JordanOnRecord) October 21, 2022
“I’m treating this kind of like another military step, like it’s something I’ve got to do,” Mazza says of his incarceration time.
“I wish I could erase it. I wish I could go back and take that hour back.” Maybe go to a museum and grab some dinner, he says.
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) October 21, 2022
Sentencing tomorrow in high-level Capitol riot case of Mark Mazza, an Army veteran from Indiana. Feds seek 78-months prison time, arguing in part Mazza brought TWO loaded handguns to Washington for Jan 6 pic.twitter.com/YoSQnLQTWs
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) October 20, 2022
Detention hearing set for Tuesday for Capitol riot defendant Mark Mazza of Indiana
He’s accused of brandishing baton & being part of the “heave-ho” push against the police line amid the mob at Capitol
Charging documents say Mazza yelled at police, “This is our f**** house!” pic.twitter.com/hxLuMyGG3L
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) December 26, 2021