Justice Department requests 33 years prison time for ex Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio

The Justice Department is requesting that ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio be sentenced to 33 years in prison after being convicted of seditious conspiracy in the connection to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.

Tarrio and three others were convicted by a jury in Washington, D.C., for conspiring to block the transfer of presidential power, after former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. 

Tarrio wasn’t in Washington on Jan. 6, due to an arrest two days prior in a separate case and ordered out of the capital city, according to the New York Post. 

If the sentence is imposed, it would be the longest punishment given in the massive Jan. 6 prosecution.

“They unleashed a force on the Capitol that was calculated to exert their political will on elected officials by force and to undo the results of a democratic election,” prosecutors wrote in the filing released Thursday. “The foot soldiers of the right aimed to keep their leader in power. They failed. They are not heroes; they are criminals.”

A 33-year sentence is also being requested for Tarrio’s co-defendant, Joseph Biggs, who is a self described Proud Boys organizer.