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Defendant Sentenced for Role in Jan. 6 Capitol Breach
A Florida man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6 Capitol breach.
Christopher Worrell, 52, of Naples, Fla., was sentenced to 120 months in prison on multiple felony counts, including assaulting a group of police officers with a deadly and dangerous weapon.
According to court documents, Worrell had been found guilty May 12, 2023, after a bench trial in the District of Columbia during which he perjured himself. On August 14, 2023, four days prior to his previously scheduled sentencing in U.S. District Court, Worrell cut off his GPS ankle monitor in a Walmart parking lot and became a fugitive.
The FBI launched a manhunt that culminated six weeks later in Worrell’s arrest at his home in Naples. In addition to an unresponsive Worrell, the FBI also found night-vision goggles, a wallet with approximately $4,000 in cash, and a bag with new camping gear inside.
Worrell later admitted that he had faked an opioid overdose upon arrest as a ‘delay tactic.’ In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth ordered 36 months of supervised release, restitution of $2,000, and a $610 special assessment.
Worrell’s actions and those of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. He plotted his trip to D.C. with other Proud Boys from the ‘Hurricane Coast’ for weeks leading up to January 6, participating in conversations in which the police were called traitors and Proud Boys brainstormed ways to disrupt the certification.
Worrell marched with a larger group of Proud Boys onto Capitol grounds, threatening U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) officers along the way to ‘honor their oaths’ to avoid making the crowd ‘go against’ the officers. He breached the restricted perimeter and reached the West Plaza of the Capitol by approximately 1 p.m., filming himself calling the USCP officers ‘scum,’ ‘piece[s] of ‘sh**,’ and ‘commies,’ among other expletives and insults.
At about 1:31 p.m., Worrell stepped forward and sprayed pepper gel at a line of police officers trying to defend the Capitol from the mob on the West Plaza. Worrell later bragged that he had ‘deployed a whole can’ and was ‘f****** handing it to them.’ A photojournalist present at the Capitol witnessed Worrell spraying toward the officers and took a photograph that captured the moment.
Worrell was arrested on March 12, 2021, in Naples, Florida. He posted to Facebook shortly after January 6, stating: ‘The violence was perpetrated on civil protestors. Not one person was causing harm or inciting violence on those steps!! The Capitol COMMIE Police fired tear gas and flash bangs into a PEACEFUL CROWD!!’
Key Facts
- State: Washington DC
- Category: Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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