An Indiana man who was sentenced to four years of incarceration and three years of supervised release for a drug charge from 2017 insists the “judge took into account” his presence in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, to punish him “two times.”
In February 2021, 33-year-old Kash Kelly of Hammond, Indiana, was sentenced for conspiracy with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana when he was a Latin King gang member in Chicago. The gang was founded there in the mid-20th century and has become a major drug trafficking organization, according to the Department of Justice.
According to the January 2017 complaint against the Latin Kings, charges against nearly 40 other gang members included arson, racketeering, and murder. Kelly was charged only with drug conspiracy and was allowed to go home on pretrial release. But he’s currently being held at the Central Detention Facility in Washington pending his trial for misdemeanor charges from Jan. 6, along with several other Jan. 6 defendants.
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