Virginia Man Who Attended Jan. 6 Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for Attacking Police With Chemical Irritant

A Virginia man was sentenced on Friday for assaulting law enforcement on Jan. 6, 2021, with a chemical irritant, amid the breach of the U.S. Capitol that day.
Markus Maly, 49, of Fincastle, Virginia, received six years in prison, as well as three years of supervised release.
His prison sentence is significantly lower than the 15 years and eight months the Department of Justice had recommended.
A jury convicted Maly on Dec. 6, 2022, of all eight charges against him. The jury trial was overseen by U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta, an Obama appointee.
Maly has been jailed since then.
He was convicted alongside two co-defendants, Peter J. Schwartz and Jeffrey Scott Brown. The three were the first people convicted of assaulting police officers with chemical irritants on Jan. 6….}