Jan. 6 rioter who said he tried to 'calm everyone down' during Capitol attack gets prison for illegal weapons cache
Source: Law & Crime
Nov 29th, 2024, 1:43 pm
A California man who confronted cops at a set of doors to the U.S. Capitol building and got sprayed by mace on Jan. 6 was sentenced for possession of an illegal weapons cache that included an AR‑15‑style rifle and 500 rounds of ammunition. Benjamin Martin, 46, was sentenced on Monday to three years and two months in prison for illegally possessing several firearms and ammunition, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced in a press release.
Martin was convicted of the firearms charges following a one-day trial. The weapons case came to light in September 2021 when the FBI executed a search warrant at his residence in Madera in connection with the Jan. 6 breach.
During the search, agents seized eight firearms, including an AR‑15‑style rifle, multiple high-capacity magazines for the AR-15, and more than 500 rounds of ammunition, which he had been prohibited from possessing because of a prior domestic violence conviction, authorities said. He had choked his then-girlfriend and dragged her back into the house after she tried to flee, officials said.
Shortly after his arrest, Martin was caught on a recorded jail call where he instructed his current fiancee to lie to authorities and tell them that the firearms seized from his residence belonged to her and her father and that he did not know about them. Martin received an enhancement to his sentence for witness tampering, officials said.
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