Proud Boy Members Dominic Pezzola and Ethan Nordean on Friday were sentenced to 10 and 18 years in prison, respectively, for their role in the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Their sentences were handed down one day after U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced Proud Boy leader Joe Biggs to 17 years in prison.
Pezzola was the only one of five Proud Boy defendants who was not convicted of seditious conspiracy after trial earlier this year.
Pezzola was captured using a riot shield to breach the Capitol building on that day.
“The reality is you were the one who did it,” Kelly said at Friday’s hearing. “You were the one who smashed that window in and let people begin to stream into the Capitol building and threaten the lives of our lawmakers. It is not something I would have ever dreamed I’d see in our country.”
“You were really, in some ways, the tip of the spear,” Kelly added.
Pezzola’s daughter, Angeline, asked the judge for lenience in his sentence, saying she was an example of “everything good that my father has done.”
