Sentenced to 40 months in prison for assaulting law enforcement officers during a Capitol breach
Aiden Henry Bilyard Sentenced for Assaulting Law Enforcement Officers in Capitol Breach
THURSDAY, Aiden Henry Bilyard20, of Cary, North Carolina, was sentenced to 40 months in prison for assaulting Metropolitan Police Department officers with a dangerous weapon during the violation of the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. In addition to the prison sentence, U.S. District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton ordered 36 months of supervised release and $3,500 in restitution.
Bilyard Shares
According to court documents, Bilyard was carrying a gold canister of “home defense pepper gel” around 2:35 p.m. on January 6. He pointed the canister nozzle at officers who were trying to stop the crowd from going any further. towards the Capitol building, then dumped the chemical irritant towards the group of officers. The officers retreated through a stairwell to the lower west terrace.
At around 4:10 p.m., Bilyard was among a group of rioters massed in front of a window in the Capitol building. He encouraged an individual who was hitting the window with what is a metal tomahawk, and was handed a bat which he used to smash the lower glass portion of the window. He then turned to face the crowd, clapping and shouting in an act of encouragement for people to start entering the building. Bilyard also crawled through the window he had broken to enter the Capitol.
FBI investigation
The case was investigated by the FBI Field Office in Charlotte, with valuable assistance from the FBI Field Office in Washington, the Metropolitan Police Department and the State Capitol Police. -United. He was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the Counterterrorism Section of the National Security Division of the Department of Justice, with valuable assistance from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Carolina. North.
In the 26 months since January 6, 2021, more than 999 people have been arrested in nearly all 50 states for crimes related to the breach of the US Capitol, including more than 320 people charged with assault or obstruct law enforcement.
