A former MMA fighter became the first person to be sentenced for assaulting a police officer during the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
Scott Fairlamb, who also runs a gym in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, received a 41-month prison sentence Wednesday after pleading guilty to assaulting a police officer and obstructing an official proceeding in August.
“It’s such a serious offense ... an affront to society and to the law, to have the Capitol overrun and the function of government stopped,” said Judge Royce Lamberth, noting that the assault had struck “in the heart of our democracy.”
Fairlamb, whose brother is a Secret Service agent who once led Michelle Obama’s security team, was reportedly among the first people to storm the Capitol, with prosecutors alleging that he made it into the Senate side of the building.