Shane Lamond said he was merely gathering intelligence from group leader Enrique Tarrio, but a judge convicted him of obstructing justice. A former D.C. police lieutenant convicted of leaking information about a police investigation to the leader of the Proud Boys group on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, was sentenced Friday to 18 months behind bars. Shane Lamond was not immediately taken into custody. He will now see whether President Donald Trump will pardon him, as he did the Proud Boys leader who showed up at the federal courthouse Friday in support of Lamond. Senior U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said pointedly that she would not be considering the possibility of a pardon in her sentencing decision. “I’m going to do my job to the best of my ability, which I think is determining the right sentence,” the judge said, and that others could then take actions outside her control. Trump has recently issued pardons to other members of law enforcement convicted in federal trials, including two D.C. police officers convicted in the death of a teenage cyclist and a Virginia sheriff convicted of accepting bribes.
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