Jay Johnston, the actor and comic recognized for work on Mr. Present, Arrested Development, and Bob’s Burgers, has been sentenced to jail for his participation within the riot on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
How lengthy is Jay Johnston’s jail sentence?
Johnston, who was arrested for his participation final yr, pleaded responsible to a felony offense of obstructing officers throughout a civil dysfunction in July. Consequently, Johnston has been sentenced to 12 months and a day in federal jail.
The prosecution had initially been looking for a jail sentence of 18 months as a consequence of Johnston making “gentle of his participation within the riot by dressing up as Jacob Chansley, referred to as the ‘QAnon Shaman,’ at a Halloween celebration that he attended,” in keeping with NBC Information.
Johnston was alleged to have spent about 10 minutes within the lowest west tunnel that leads into the Capitol. In line with prosecutors, throughout that point Johnston helped a number of rioters wash their eyes out, created a “defend wall” utilizing a stolen United States Capitol Police riot defend, and in addition participated in a push that pinned MPD Officer Daniel Hodges in opposition to a door throughout the riot.
Johnston’s participation within the riots was broadly publicized nearly instantly after the occasions. Images of his face started circulating on social media throughout the occasions, and within the years main as much as his arrest, the actor was not shy about sending “messages to family and friends within the days after January sixth claiming the occasions on the U.S. Capitol had been exaggerated by the media and that it was a ‘setup’ by the police and Antifa,” in keeping with the prosecution.
Following the affirmation that he had appeared within the Capitol riots, Johnston was fired from his function on Bob’s Burgers, the place he had appeared in a recurring function as Jimmy Pesto Sr.
(Supply: NBC News)
