Ex-D.C. Lieutenant Gets 18-Month Sentence for Tipping Off Proud Boys Leader
A former Washington, D.C. police department lieutenant was sentenced to 18 months in prison for tipping off a Proud Boys leader about an investigation and then lying about it.
Shane Lamond was found guilty in federal court last December of alerting Henry 'Enrique' Tarrio to a warrant for his arrest over the December 2020 burning of a Black Lives Matter flag stolen from a Black church. When federal investigators later asked Lamond about his communications with Tarrio, he lied about it in three separate false statements.
On Friday, Lamond said in court that he 'respectfully disagrees' with the guilty verdict, but also acknowledged he was 'sloppy' in his relationship with Tarrio, The Hill reported.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson told Lamond that that was 'quite the understatement.' His actions, she said, weren't in line with proper department guidelines 'unless you twist them until they're unrecognizable.'
'That is absolutely not the way police treat information about a warrant,' Jackson said Friday, The Washington Post reported, 'and Mr. Lamond knows that… He lied to the federal agents when he was a sworn law enforcement officer himself.'
Lamond, who had been with the Metropolitan Police Department for 24 years, is a first-time offender, and his sentence was considerably less than the 30 years he could have received for obstruction of justice.
Lamond has until August 1 to surrender.
Tarrio was convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 22 years for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot—a black mark that President Donald Trump removed via a pardon in January.
Tarrio, who was in the courtroom Friday, said Trump should pardon the former officer as well.
'This has to be corrected,' he told reporters afterward.
Also in attendance was Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes, whose 18-year seditious conspiracy sentence was commuted by Trump. Rhodes called Friday's sentencing a 'travesty of injustice.'
Jackson said a potential pardon didn't influence her sentencing decision.
'I'm going to do my job to the best of my ability, which I think is determining the right sentence,' she said, according to The Post.
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