A man sentenced to four years in prison for breaking into the Capitol

MADRID, 3 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

A 40-year-old man has been sentenced this Friday to 55 months in prison for interrupting a joint session of the United States Congress when it was meeting to verify and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election won by Joe Biden.

Joshua Pruit had previously been found guilty in the District of Columbia on June 3, 2022, of one count of obstructing an official proceeding, the US State Department said in a statement.

Now a judge in Washington D.C. has determined that he must spend 55 months in prison (just over four and a half years), after which he will have to serve three years of probation and will have to pay 2,000 euros as compensation.

Pruitt would have stormed inside the Capitol by throwing a wooden sign over a window and being one of the first troublemakers to enter the crypt.

In the 19 months since January 6, 2021, more than 860 people have been arrested in nearly all 50 states for crimes related to the violation of the United States Capitol, including more than 260 people charged with assault or impeding compliance of the law.