Jeffrey Scott Brown, 56, of Santa Ana, California, was sentenced Friday to four years and four months in prison for a range of charges related to his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach, officials stated.
Brown was convicted of assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement officers, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a dangerous weapon, and disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a dangerous weapon.
He was also convicted of engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds with a dangerous weapon, and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds or buildings, according to officials.
According to the government’s evidence, on Jan. 6, 2021, Brown was with two co-defendants – Peter J. Schwartz and Markus Maly – at the area of the Lower West Terrace of the Capitol Building.
Brown was handed an O.C. spray canister by Schwartz, who had stolen it from an MPD duffle bag. As the crowd heaved against the makeshift police line, Brown sprayed them with the OC spray, officials stated.
The case was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, with assistance from the FBI’s Washington and Los Angeles Offices.
In the 27 months since Jan. 6, 2021, more than 1,000 individuals have been arrested in nearly all 50 states for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol, including more than 320 individuals charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement, officials stated.
The investigation remains ongoing.