One of the members of the far-right group ‘Proud Boys‘who participated in the assault on the Capitol of USA on January 6, 2021, he was sentenced this Thursday to ten years in prison.
The man, 52 years old and originally from Florida, was on the run for six weeks after being convicted. When he was finally discovered by the authorities, he pretended to suffer a drug overdose to try to delay his capture, according to court documents presented by the Prosecutor’s Office.
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During the trial in May, which lasted less than a week, Christopher Worrell was found guilty in Washington on seven charges, including assaulting the police or attempting to impede an official proceeding.
Worrell was scheduled to be sentenced in August, but disappeared. He FBI She finally found him trying to return home, six weeks later.
To try to delay his capture, he pretended to be unconscious from an overdose. “She spent five days in a hospital.”wasting the time and money of both healthcare personnel and the Sheriff’s Office. Collier County (where he was detained)“, can be read in one of the court documents.
On January 6, 2021, thousands of followers of the then president donald trump (2017-2021) stormed the US Capitol while legislators were in the process of certifying the results of the elections that gave victory to the current president, Joe Biden.
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Since then, several members of far-right organizations’Proud Boys‘ and ‘Oath Keepers‘, including their ringleaders, have been sentenced to long prison terms for their role in the attack.
Trump himself, who today is the main Republican candidate for the presidential elections to be held this year, has seen how the states of Colorado and Maine They disqualify him from the race for, they allege, inciting insurrection. Trump has appealed both decisions.
