Sahady on the steps of the Capitol (via FBI).
A former Army captain living in his elderly parents' Malden home will soon be getting new digs thanks to a federal judge, who sentenced him this week to five months in federal prison for the way he waltzed around the Capitol on Jan. 6, yelling stuff like "Yeah! Fuck yeah! Fuck yeah! Patriots Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!" Read more.
Joseph Abasciano, fired as a Boston cop in 2023 for going to Washington and posting a series of tweets about the "traitors" in the Capitol and across the country before and during the events of Jan. 6, 2021, yesterday sued Boston and its police department, alleging violations of his First Amendment rights to both free speech and religious freedom by a mayor and police commissioner allegedly out to get him. Read more.
St. Pierre egging on fellow y'all quedaists at the Capitol and in simpler times.
A federal judge in Washington, DC this week convicted the owner of a Fall River market on four counts - one a felony - for throwing a flagpole topper at police and using a bullhorn to encourage other insurrectionists inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, after first videoing himself exclaiming that he'd like to "grab Nancy Pelosi by the hair and fucking twirl her around." Read more.
Starer in the Capitol: Probably not the mien she wore during counseling and gyn sessions back home.
A federal judge yesterday sentenced Jacquelyn Starer, who once practiced at Jamaica Plain's Faulkner Hospital, to nine months in prison for not just storming into the Capitol back on Jan. 6, 2021 but for punching a DC cop in the head, cursing her and riling up other putschists in the Rotunda. Read more.
Sahady probably not as happy as he was Jan. 6 on the Capitol grounds with fellow failed insurrectionist Sue Ianni of Natick.
A federal judge yesterday found Mark Sahady, who helped organize bus rides for fellow white supremacists and homophobes to Washington, DC on Jan. 5, guilty of four crimes related to his stomping through the Capitol the following day. Read more.
Fisher ambles through the Capitol on Jan. 6, moments before attacking a Capitol cop.
A federal judge on Friday sentenced former BPD K9 officer Joseph Robert Fisher to 20 months in prison and two years of probation both for embedding himself in the screaming mob that failed to stop American democracy at the Capitol on Jan. 6 in general and ramming a chair into a Capitol police officer then pushing him to the ground in particular. Read more.
Starer captured by officer's body-worn camera in the process of hurling punch.
Dr. Jacquelyn Starer of Ashland, formerly affiliated with Faulkner Hospital, admitted today she rushed a line of cops in the Capitol and punched one as she screamed "fucking bitch!" at her on Jan. 6. Read more.
Photos of Method with Christopher Columbus and fellow failed putschists.
A Framingham man was arrested yesterday on a variety of charges yesterday related to the way he allegedly joined in the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6. Read more.
Starer in attack mode in the Capitol. Photo via FBI.
Dr. Jacquelyn Starer, an Ashland gynecologist and addiction-recovery specialist formerly affiliated with Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain, is negotiating a possible plea deal for the way she was charged with punching a DC cop in the head during the failed Jan. 6 coup attempt in Washington, according to court records. Read more.
Ianni and Sahady enjoying a crisp January day in DC before rushing into the Capitol.
Three years ago today, hundreds of followers of the Insurrectionist in Chief stormed the Capitol and beat cops as they fought for an autogolpe to keep their god-emperor in power. Several were from Massachusetts, including a Nazi-adjacent straight guy, an angry gynecologist, a yoga instructor from Somerville, of all places, a chair-wielding former Boston cop and a man so detested in his hometown, he was quickly turned in by his townspeople. Here's what's happened to them since. Read more.
Three faces of Fisher in DC, one with cap with Pats, Bruins and Celtics logos, via FBI.
A federal judge in Washington has set a Feb. 1 hearing at which Joseph Fisher, a retired Boston Police canine officer, is expected to plead guilty to both felony and misdemeanor charges for bursting into the Capitol on Jan. 6 and using a chair to attack a Capitol Police officer who was pursuing one of Fisher's fellow attempted coup-makers. Read more.
Area right-wing rally organizer Mark Sahady of Malden had been scheduled to go on trial today for his alleged role in the failed Jan. 6 Vanilla Isis coup, but a judge last week put a hold on the proceedings until after Sahady can find what would be his fourth lawyer since his arrest. Read more.
Bacon, in Space Force hat, inside the Capitol, via government sentencing memorandum.
A federal judge in Washington, DC last week sentenced Noah Bacon, 30, to one year and one day in federal prison following his conviction for traipsing around the Capitol as part of Donald Trump's failed autogolpe. Read more.
Via FBI: St. Pierre on Capitol steps with a PA system, urging rioters inside.
A Fall River grocery-store owner was arrested today on felony and misdemeanor charges for his alleged role in the failed Jan. 6 coup at the Capitol.
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Federal prosecutors, who had earlier painted a picture of local right-winger Mark Sahady and his now convicted Natick pal merely strolling through the Capitol on Jan. 6, now say he was a-hootin' and a-hollerin' that day as other rioters smashed their way into the building to try to enthrone Donald Trump as president by force. Read more.
Athol man trying to drag cop into the mob. Surveillance photo via FBI.
A federal judge in Washington, DC today sentenced Vincent J. Gillespie, 61, of Athol, to 68 months in prison for ramming cops with their own riot shields on Jan. 6, pulling one of the cops towards the surging mob as another protester beat him with a crutch and screaming at the police in his way that they were traitors. Read more.
Fisher strolling through the Capitol before attacking cop, allegedly.
A federal judge on Thursday let Joseph Fisher return to his Plymouth home to await further proceedings on federal felony and misdemeanor charges for his alleged participation in the Jan. 6 attempt to enthrone Donald Trump in a job voters had turned him out of. Read more.
Three faces of Fisher in DC, one with cap with Pats, Bruins and Celtics logos, via FBI.
The FBI today arrested a former Boston cop on charges he didn't just bust into the Capitol with fellow coupsters on Jan. 6, he rammed a chair into a police officer running after a pepper-spraying member of Y'all Queda, then began beating the cop, only the cop got the better of him and knocked him to the ground. Read more.
Sahady in the Capitol (lower right) with Ianni.
Local right-wing organizer Mark Sahady is asking a federal judge in Washington to move his failed-coup trial from there to Massachusetts, arguing that his face has been so plastered over DC media in a community still traumatized by all the rioting that he could not possibly get a fair trial there, even aside from the fact its residents are mostly Democrats. Read more.
Suzanne Ianni of Natick is appealing the 15-day sentence meted out by a federal judge in Washington, DC in December after she pleaded guilty to meandering around the Capitol on Jan. 6. Read more.
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