Former Metropolitan Police Division (MPD) Lt. Shane Lamond was convicted Monday of obstructing an investigation into the previous Proud Boys nationwide chair, Enrique Tarrio, simply weeks earlier than the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
U.S. District Courtroom Decide Amy Berman Jackson discovered Lamond responsible on one rely of obstructing justice and three counts of creating false statements to federal legislation enforcement officers, together with when Lamond lied and mentioned that he didn’t tip off Tarrio to the truth that legislation enforcement had a warrant out for his arrest. Tarrio was a major suspect on the time in an investigation into the burning of a Black Lives Matter banner.
Lamond’s sentencing date is about for April 3.
“As proven at trial, Lamond turned his job on its head — providing confidential information to a source, rather than getting information from him — lied about the conduct, and obstructed an investigation into the source,” U.S. Legal professional Matthew Graves mentioned in an announcement Monday.
“The intelligence gathering role that Lamond was supposed to play is critical to keeping our community safe. His violation of the trust placed in him put our community more at risk and cannot be ignored,” Graves added.
Lamond was the supervisor of the Intelligence Department of the MPD’s Homeland Safety Bureau on the time. He started sustaining common communication with Tarrio in July 2019, as a part of what prosecutors mentioned have been his job obligations.
Prosecutors mentioned, nonetheless, that after the 2020 election, Lamond used Telegram to “surreptitiously provide information to Tarrio about law enforcement activity relating to Proud Boys’ activities in Washington, D.C.”
Lamond and Tarrio each testified on the seven-day bench trial. Lamond mentioned he by no means offered Tarrio with delicate police info, and Tarrio testified as a witness in Lamond’s protection, saying he by no means acquired any confidential info from Lamond, in response to The Related Press.
The choose, in response to the AP, mentioned that the trial proof advised that Lamond was not utilizing Tarrio as a supply after the banner burning in December 2020, however, she mentioned, “It was the other way around.”
At trial, the choose described a sample within the messages between the 2 males, saying, in response to the AP, “Lamond and Tarrio talk, and Tarrio immediately disseminates what he learns.”
The choose mentioned Tarrio was “flippant, grandiose and obnoxious” on the stand and described him as an “awful witness,” in response to the AP. “He was one of the worst I’ve had the opportunity to sit next to during my tenure on the bench.”
Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in jail for his function main as much as the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol.
