The founder of Hawaii's Proud Boys chapter and a Texas man were sentenced Friday to four years each in prison for their participation in the Jan. 6 attack.
Nicholas Ochs, 36, of Honolulu, and Nicholas DeCarlo, 32, of Fort Worth, Texas, threw smoke bombs at police, illegally entered the Capitol and filmed themselves smoking cigarettes inside, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said in a statement Friday.DeCarlo also wrote “Murder the Media” with a marker on the Chestnut-Gibson Memorial Door to the Capitol as Ochs recorded, prosecutors said.
In their sentencing memo, prosecutors tried to convey the seriousness of the duo's crime, and said Ochs had pointed lost rioters toward the Speaker’s Office.
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