“I’ve only heard of it in Indiana,” Maza said. “Washington is the murder capital.”
So he brought two loaded guns to the Capitol from an Oval “Stop the Stealing” rally led by President Donald Trump and soon began arguing with police, according to court records and video. During his first fight with officers on the west side of the Capitol, he fell and his Taurus “Judge” .45 caliber pistol fell from his belt, court records show.
Instead of retrieving it, Mazza moved on and ended up in front of a mob attacking police in the Lower West Terrace Tunnel.Video shows him helping lead a ‘heave-ho’ push on a door that partially crushed one officer and swiping a baton from another officer before smashing The officer’s hand holds it. Have The video shows that more thugs were subsequently recruited to join the extended operation to break into the halls of Congress.
“I could be a hero,” Maza told Capitol Police investigators two months later, calling himself a patriot and saying he was angry at the state of the country. He told police that if they came back and arrested him, “let me have a meal…I just want three squares and a nice clean room, someone to take care of my healthcare and I’m fine.”
Mazza, 57, got her wish to be fed. On Friday, a federal judge sentenced him to five years in prison for assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon and carrying an unregistered firearm in the area. Mazza was one of seven people charged with possession of a firearm at or near the Capitol on January 1. 6. The fifth guilty plea.
Prosecutors had sought six-and-a-half years in prison, saying his beating up a neighbour boy last year showed he was still dangerous.
While Maza was awaiting arrest, he attacked a 12-year-old who made derogatory comments about the Trump flag flying above Maza’s home, court records show. Prosecutors said Maza called the child the n-word, saying Trump “killed” people like him. A Shelbyville police report said Maza grabbed the boy by the neck, pinned him to the ground, and then pinned him to the ground.Shortly before his arrest on federal charges In the Capitol attack, Mazza was convicted of misdemeanor assault and fined.
When Maza returned to Shelbyville, he called police on January 1. 8 The Taurus judge who reported him was stolen from his car at an Ohio casino. The lie was one of many Maza told in the months that followed, leading investigators to visit Maza in March 2021, where he told them he had not attacked any police officers on January 1. 6.
“No swinging, no doing anything,” Mazza told Capitol Police investigators. Asked if he had anything else to add, Mazza said, “Never talked to Nancy,” referring to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). “I thought Nan and I would hit it off…I’m glad I didn’t because you’re here for another reason.”
be a policeman Mazza revealed when he searched his home in November that he also had a .40 caliber gun at the Capitol on January 1. 6. Hidden in the floor safe.Police also seized more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition from Maza’s home, as well as a baton with a serial number that he stole scraped off.
Roger K. Baugh, a man who drove with Mazza from Shelbyville, pleaded guilty to civil disorder on Friday and is scheduled to be sentenced in January.
Mazza is the 48th thug to be sentenced for a felony. Average jail term in January. According to the Washington Post’s database, the six felonies were in slightly less than three years. Of the 880 rioters charged so far, more than 270 have been charged with assaulting police, the Justice Department said in a recent press release.
It was unclear whether Mazza, who was carrying two guns, actually entered the oval of Trump’s Jan. 1 speech. 6, and where the Secret Service uses metal detectors to screen attendees. At about 2.30pm, Capitol Police officers were attacked by a mob as they tried to hold their line at a roadblock on West Terrace, according to court records. A sergeant reported that when he struck a man with his baton, the man fell and a loaded Taurus Judge revolver, which contained three .410 caliber shotguns, fell from the man’s pants Bullets and two .45 caliber hollow bullets.
After losing the first gun, the video shows Maza heading to the West Terrace Tunnel, where he helped lead the advance on the officers, cursing them loudly before grabbing the sergeant’s baton. Phuson Nguyen and hit him with it. Nguyen was not seriously injured in that encounter, but he was later knocked down in front of the tunnel and his gas mask was sprayed with a chemical irritant, which was temporarily pulled from his face.
Mazza at that time Surveillance footage showed them clashing with police and opening glass doors to allow other thugs to confront police while yelling at them. He then walks to the back of the crowd, where he can be seen pulling other thugs from outside to join the fight.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Tejpal S. Chawla said officers could have “pushed people out” of the tunnel if Mazza hadn’t recruited more.
“Mr. Mazza has now made this impossible through his efforts,” Chawla said.
On the front lines of the battle, D.C. police officer Michael Fanone can be seen telling Mazza to leave. When the mob gathered again, Thug yanks Fanone beat and tasered the officer hard outside. Prosecutors said Mazza helped protect Fanone and the other downed officer until rescue came. Mazza stayed at the Capitol for another 90 minutes after being ejected from the tunnel.
“I regret what I did that day,” Mazza told U.S. District Judge James E. Bosberg. “I got into a mob mentality that I never expected. I went to a rally and ended up at the Capitol.” He said of the past 11 months he had been held at North Neck Regional Prison for blackmail, Beating and robbery. “I put myself at the mercy of the court.”
“I don’t know what the hell you were thinking that day in the tunnel,” Bosberg told him. “These videos are very shocking. … The mob didn’t do what it did that day, no numbers, you were a big part of it.
Consultation federal sentencing guidelines set convictions for assaulting a police officer with a lethal weapon (baton) at 57 to 71 months and for possession of an unregistered firearm at 6 to 24 months. Prosecutors said 78 months would be the middle of two sentences if served consecutively. Boasberg, who was sentenced to 60 months on the assault charge and six months on the gun charge, concurrently, said he praised Mazza for helping two downed police officers and serving in the German army for three years.