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Marine veteran gets 5 years for assaulting police at Capitol riot – By Irene Loewenson (Military Times) / Feb 5, 2023
A Marine veteran is being sent to prison for more than five years for spraying a chemical irritant at police outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Daniel Ray Caldwell, 51, of The Colony, Texas, was sentenced Wednesday to 68 months in prison, according to a Thursday news release from the District of Columbia’s U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Caldwell pleaded guilty in September 2022 to assaulting law enforcement officers with a dangerous weapon.
Video of the attack shows Caldwell — wearing an olive-drab hoodie, camouflage gear and a sticker saying “Guns SAVE Lives” — spraying an orange substance at a row of police officers, according to court documents filed by the prosecution.
