WASHINGTON – A Massachusetts doctor was sentenced to prison Thursday for her role in the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol in Washington, where she’s accused of assaulting a police officer.
Nine month prison sentence
Jacquelyn Starer, of Ashland, will serve nine months behind bars along with 24 months of supervised release. She was also ordered to pay $4,000 in restitution and fines.
Starer previously pleaded guilty to two felony counts of obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder and assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers. She also pleaded guilty to six misdemeanors, including entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.