A man who carried a gun onto U.S. Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced on Aug. 1 to over seven years in prison, news outlets reported.
Guy Reffitt, 49, of Texas was sentenced to 87 months in prison.
It’s the longest sentence yet handed down to a person charged with a crime linked to the events at the Capitol. The previous record was 63 months.
Reffitt was also sentenced to three years of supervised release, mandatory mental health treatment, and $2,000 in restitution.
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich, the Trump appointee overseeing the case, said that Reffitt and others who committed crimes on Jan. 6 are a “direct threat to our democracy” and will be “punished as such,” WUSA-TV reported….