CHESAPEAKE, Va. — A Chesapeake man convicted of breaching the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, will spend six months in prison.
The U.S. Department of Justice also said a judge ordered 64-year-old Antonio Lamotta to pay $2,000 in restitution on Wednesday.
According to court documents, Lamotta was a part of the riot at the Capitol back in 2021 attempting to prevent the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
The FBI arrested Lamotta on August 16, 2022, and he was found guilty back in March.
This wasn't Lamotta's first run-in with the law. In November of 2020, Lamotta was arrested in Philadelphia for carrying a weapon outside of the Pennsylvania Convention Center where ballot counting was taking place after the election. He was sentenced for that incident in March of 2023, where he was ordered to serve 11.5 to 23 months in prison for violating firearms laws, as well as four years of probation.