Local Decorated Marine Earns Prison Time After Capitol Riot

Check consequences in the aftermath of a hotly debated historic event that still raises temperatures of culture warriors across the political spectrum . . .

"Christopher Kuehne also received 24 months of supervised release, which includes 60 days of home detention, and must pay $2,000 restitution for damage to the Capitol, which the government says was more than $2.9 million, U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly ruled.

"Kuehne, 50, who lived in Olathe at the time of the riot, was charged with multiple felonies for conspiring to breach the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He pleaded guilty in September to obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder and faced a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release."

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Former KC-area Proud Boy, decorated Marine vet gets brief prison time in Jan. 6 case

"In a claim that strains credulity, he insists that he 'only entered the Capitol Building to protect property that [he] believed was going to be destroyed by the crowd,'" the Justice Department said of Christopher Kuehne.