Defendant was Armed With Knife and Joined in Chase of Officer
WASHINGTON – An Iowa man was sentenced at present within the District of Columbia to 60 months in jail for assaulting U.S. Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman in the course of the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His and others’ actions disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to determine and depend the electoral votes associated to the presidential election.
Douglas Austin Jensen, 43, of Des Moines, Iowa, was discovered responsible by a jury, in September, of 5 felonies that included: assaulting, resisting, or impeding a regulation enforcement officer; obstruction of an official continuing; interfering with a regulation enforcement officer throughout a civil dysfunction; getting into and remaining in a restricted constructing or grounds with a harmful weapon; and disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted constructing or grounds with a harmful weapon. He additionally was discovered responsible of the misdemeanor offenses of disorderly conduct in a Capitol constructing; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol constructing.
In keeping with the federal government’s proof at trial, on January 6, 2021, Jensen illegally entered the U.S. Capitol grounds at roughly 2 p.m. He wore a particular black shirt with a big “Q” emblazoned on the chest, and he carried a knife with a three-inch blade inside his pocket. He scaled a wall on the West Entrance of the Capitol, watched as a mob broke the home windows and doorways on the Senate Wing entrance, and was the tenth particular person contained in the Capitol Constructing.
As soon as inside, Jensen encountered Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman. Jensen repeatedly disobeyed Officer Goodman’s instructions to again up and to depart the constructing. Jensen in the end led a mob of rioters in a menacing pursuit of Officer Goodman up the East Grand Staircase, simply steps away from the Senate Chamber. There, he waved the mob ahead and demanded that officers “again up,” “give up the constructing,” and arrest Vice President Mike Pence. Jensen was escorted out of the Capitol after about 40 minutes, however he re-entered shortly thereafter by means of the East Rotunda Doorways. Whereas contained in the Rotunda, he shoved and berated Metropolitan Police Division officers who had been clearing rioters from the Capitol Constructing.
Jensen was arrested on Jan. 8, 2021, in Des Moines, Iowa.
Along with the jail time period, Jensen was ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution and full three years of supervised launch.
The case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace for the District of Columbia. Worthwhile help was offered by the Division of Justice Nationwide Safety Division’s Counterterrorism Part and the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace for the Southern District of Iowa.
The case is being investigated by the FBI’s Washington Discipline Workplace, which recognized Jensen as #44 in its searching for info pictures and the FBI’s Omaha Discipline Workplace and its Des Moines Resident Company. Worthwhile help was offered by the U.S. Capitol Police, and the Metropolitan Police Division.
Within the 23 months since Jan. 6, 2021, near 900 people have been arrested in practically all 50 states for crimes associated to the breach of the U.S. Capitol, together with over 265 people charged with assaulting or impeding regulation enforcement. The investigation stays ongoing.
Anybody with ideas can name 1-800-CALL-FBI (800-225-5324) or go to ideas.fbi.gov.