An Ohio pastor who authorities say used a bullhorn to incite the Jan. 6, 2021, mob at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced Thursday after being found guilty of multiple offenses .
William Dunfee, 59, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison and three years of supervised release, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ), which added that he was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and $2,000 restitution.
“His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election,” the DOJ said in a statement.
Dunfee was convicted in January of two felony charges — obstruction of an official proceeding or aiding and abetting, and civil disorder — and one misdemeanor of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds.
According to authorities, court documents showed that Dunfee posted a video to social media in December 2020 telling his congregation in Warsaw, Ohio, that “The Government, the tyrants, the socialists, the Marxists, the progressives, the RINOs, they fear you. And they should. Our problem is we haven’t given them reason to fear us.”