Hunter Ehmke, 21, received 4 months in prison and 36 months of supervised release.
A Glendora man who admitted to breaking a window during the Jan. 6, 2021 breach of the U.S. Capitol was sentenced Friday to four months in prison.
Thousands of Trump supporters traveled to Washington D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021 in what turned into a violent but ultimately failed attempt to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory. The Jan. 6 Insurrection has so far led to more than 800 arrests nationwide, includingAccording to a sentencing brief filed by prosecutors, Ehmke went to Washington D.C.
Police pushed Ehmke to the ground and detained him, but were forced to let him go when they were surrounded by a large group of rioters. The officers took photos of Ehmke and seized his driver’s license before letting him go.former Glendora councilman Bob Kuhn. They noted, however, that Ehmke has no criminal history, lives with his parents and works for their online business, and he left the Capitol Building when ordered to do so by police.Ehmke’s attorney in his own sentencing brief described Ehmke as having been “fed lies and disingenuous directions by people that should have known better.” He had traveled to Washington D.C.