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Showing Original Post only (View all)Mother cries out in court after youngest N.C. defendant in Jan. 6 riot gets 3 1/2 years [View all]
Source: Charlotte News & Oberver
BY MICHAEL GORDON
MARCH 17, 2023 5:33 PM
A North Carolina man, the second youngest defendant in more than 1,000 arrests linked to the deadly riot at U.S. Capitol, will spend the next three years of his early adulthood behind bars.
Aiden Bilyard of Cary was 18 when he sprayed chemical agents at police and broke out a window in the Capitol during the violent mob attack on Jan. 6, 2021, to keep Donald Trump in office.
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton sentenced the now-21-year-old to 40 months in prison for assaulting police with a deadly or dangerous weapon.
Bilyard, he said, had answered the calls of a demagogue and had taken up arms with people prepared to destroy this country to get what they wanted.
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