WASHINGTON — A supporter of former President Donald Trump, who was arrested for storming the U.S. Capitol after he was turned in to authorities by a person of the Bumble courting app, has been sentenced to three months of home detention.
Robert Chapman of Carmel, New York, was arrested in April 2021, three months after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. He pleaded responsible in December to a misdemeanor picketing cost.
Judge Rudolph Contreras of the federal district court docket in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday sentenced Chapman to 18 months of probation, together with three months of home detention with location monitoring. He was additionally ordered to pay about $1,200 in fines and restitution.
The FBI turned conscious of Chapman per week after the assault when a Bumble person he had messaged with contacted regulation enforcement and despatched screenshots of their conversations on the app.
“I did storm the capitol. I made it all the way into Statuary Hall!” he wrote to the person.
“We are not a match,” the person replied, to which Chapman responded: “I suppose not.”
Chapman additionally bragged about his conduct on Facebook, in accordance to prosecutors.
“I’M F—— INSIDE THE CRAPITOL!!!” he wrote in a single submit.
Chapman contributed to the chaos on Jan. 6, should be held accountable however is unlikely to reoffend, Contreras stated.
“I don’t expect I’ll see you again,” the choose stated, encouraging him to use his time in home detention “productively.”
Chapman instructed the court docket that his prayers went out to any people who had been injured or negatively affected by rioters.
“I’m hoping as a nation and a country we can begin to heal and bond together and become a much more unified and loving nation,” he stated Wednesday.
Other Jan. 6 rioters have additionally been arrested due to customers of Bumble, a courting app through which girls make the primary transfer.
Andrew Taake, a Texas man charged with assaulting officers with a metallic whip and pepper spray, was arrested after a lady in D.C. hopped on Bumble and sought to draw confessions from rioters.
“They wanted to regurgitate a lot of these ideas to somebody, and I seemed like a willing participant,” the girl, who was recognized utilizing the pseudonym “Claire,” instructed HuffPost. “It didn’t take a lot of arm twisting to get them to start talking about it.”
The FBI has made almost 800 arrests in reference to the Capitol assault, and greater than 290 defendants have pleaded responsible. The Biden administration has requested tens of millions in further sources to prosecute a whole lot of excellent circumstances stemming from the assault.
