A 49-year-old Colorado Springs man was sentenced to prison Tuesday for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.
Jonathan David Grace was sentenced to two years in prison, three years of supervised probation and ordered to pay $7,000 in fines and restitution by a district court judge.
Grace pleaded guilty to one count of assaulting, resisting or impeding officers in October.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Grace joined a group of rioters trying to push their way past a police line in the Lower West Terrace Tunnel entrance to the Capitol on the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021.
Grace joined a group of rioters yelling “Heave! Ho!” while locking arms and pushing against police, during which one officer was smashed between a shield and metal door frame, according to a news release.
After he was expelled from the tunnel, Grace stood nearby as rioters dragged a police officer out of the tunnel and attacked him, and then returned to the tunnel to push against police before being sprayed with pepper spray.
Grace was arrested in Colorado on March 30.
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