Kyle Fitzsimons, Assaulting Law Enforcement, Washington DC, 2021

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Kyle Fitzsimons Sentenced to 87 Months for Assaulting Law Enforcement, Washington DC, 2021

A Maine man was sentenced to 87 months in prison after he was convicted of 11 charges, including seven felonies, for his actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach.

Kyle Fitzsimons, 39, of Lebanon, Maine, was convicted of obstructing an official proceeding, assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement officers, interfering with a law enforcement officer during a civil disorder, and engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds.

According to the government’s evidence, on Jan. 6, 2021, between 3:45 and 4:30 p.m., Fitzsimons was illegally on the Capitol grounds and among a crowd of rioters brawling with law enforcement officers at the tunnel entrance of the lower west terrace of the Capitol building.

Fitzsimons was found guilty on Sept. 27, 2022, of seven felony charges, including: one count of obstruction of an official proceeding; four counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement officers, including two involving a dangerous weapon or bodily injury; one count of interfering with a law enforcement officer during a civil disorder, and one count of engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds.

He also was found guilty of four misdemeanor charges including: entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol Building or grounds; and committing an act of violence in the Capitol Building or grounds.

Fitzsimons was sentenced to 87 months in prison, along with 36 months of supervised release and restitution of $2,000. The case was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

More than 1,069 individuals have been arrested in nearly all 50 states for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol since Jan. 6, 2021.