BREAKING: Ray Epps sentenced to 1 year probation, $500 fine after telling J6ers ‘we need to go into the Capitol’

According to the Associated Press, Epps will have to serve 100 hours of community service, but no restrictions were placed on his travel during his probation sentence. Epps also received a $500 fine.

Epps appeared remotely for the Washington, DC hearing in which Chief Judge James Boasberg sentenced him.

Federal prosecutors had recommended a six-month sentence for Epps. Epps pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds.

Epps, in the lead-up to Jan 6, was caught on camera saying, "We need to go into the Capitol" and texted his nephew on the day that he had "orchestrated it" as protestors breached the Capitol building that afternoon.

Over 1,200 people have been arrested in connection with the day, with Biden’s Department of Justice sentencing around 450 defendants to a combined nearly 850 years in prison by the end of 2023.

Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who was not at the Capitol on January 6 but was charged with seditious conspiracy for an organizing role, received the longest sentence at 22 years. His co-defendants, Zachary Rehl, Joe Biggs, and Ethan Nordean, all of whom were Proud Boys affiliates, each received between 15 and 18 years in prison.

Journalist Owen Shroyer was sentenced to 60 days in prison for being on the grounds of the Capitol on January 6, with Biden prosecutors stating that he had broken a deferred prosecution agreement. He was released in December.

This is a breaking story and will be updated.