The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said in a press release that a Maryland police officer was convicted Friday for acts he committed during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, “including throwing a smoking and sparking object in the direction of” police.
According to the press release , Justin Lee is 25 and from Rockville. U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden found Lee guilty of two felony offenses: assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and civil disorder, and “misdemeanor offenses of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building.”
Lee is set to face sentencing in November, the release said…