A former Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officer has been found guilty of leaking information to a former Proud Boys leader.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson Found Former Metropolitan Police Department intelligence chief Shane Lamond was found guilty of one count of obstruction of justice and three counts of lying to a “federal law enforcement officer,” according to police. hill.
Ramond was previously charged with warning former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio about a “warrant of arrest” before the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
of hill Lamond pointed out that the former Proud Boys leader reportedly “lied about not informing him” about “issuing a warrant for his arrest.”
“As proven at trial, Ramond overturned his duties, provided confidential information rather than obtain information from his sources, lied about his conduct, and obstructed investigations into those sources,” the U.S. said prosecutor Matthew Graves. Outlet.
Lamond began “regular contact with Tarrio beginning in July 2019” while serving as director of the Metropolitan Police Department's Department of Homeland Security Intelligence Division.
At the time, Mr. Lamond was the supervisor of the Metropolitan Police Department's Homeland Security Bureau's intelligence division. As part of his professional responsibilities, prosecutors said, he began communicating regularly with Tarrio in July 2019.
During the “jury trial,” Mr. Tarrio said, revealed According to the newspaper, he “lied to fellow Proud Boys that he was receiving information from a Metropolitan Police Department source at the same time.” guardian.
of guardian During Lamond's trial, the defense argued that Lamond's contact with Tarrio was “part of his job,” but prosecutors argued that Lamond had written about his affinity for the Proud Boys. , reported that Lamond expressed his “support” for the Proud Boys.
Ramond's defense attorney said his client's interactions with Tarrio were part of his job. But prosecutors showed Lamond was writing about his affinity for the Proud Boys. In that exchange, Lamond said he supported the group and “didn't want to see your group's name or reputation dragged into the mud,” the indictment alleges.
As Breitbart News previously reported, Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prison in September 2023 for the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, but he was arrested two days earlier, so he was sentenced to 22 years in prison that day. Tarrio 'wasn't in Washington, D.C.' after allegedly desecrating a Black Lives Matter banner:
The 39-year-old was not in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, as he was arrested in the city two days earlier on suspicion of defacing a Black Lives Matter banner. After his arrest, Tarrio spent most of January 6, 2021, in a hotel in Baltimore after a judge ordered him to leave the capital.
But prosecutors said Tarrio's absence from the city that day “does not diminish the gravity of his actions” because he “was a general, not a soldier.”
Ramond is scheduled to be sentenced on April 3, 2025.
