D.C. officer guilty of leaking to Proud Boys' Tarrio before Jan. 6 [View all]

Source: Washington Post

A former D.C. police lieutenant was found guilty in federal court Monday on charges that he improperly warned Proud Boys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio of his pending arrest two days before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, then lied about it to investigators.

Shane Lamond, a 24-year department veteran, withheld from colleagues that Tarrio had confessed to burning a Black Lives Matter banner stolen from a historic African American church during a pro-Trump rally weeks earlier and leaked word to Tarrio that a warrant had been signed for his arrest, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson found.

“Whatever the relationship had been before, after the banner burning the defendant was not using Tarrio as a source; it was the other way around,” Jackson said Monday. “He knew then, and he knows now, that it was wrong.”

She found Lamond guilty of obstructing justice and subsequently making three false statements to in an interview with federal two U.S. attorney’s office investigators to hide his involvement: Lamond denied tipping off Tarrio to the investigation or the arrest warrant and claimed their communications were mostly “one-sided” from the Proud Boys leader.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/12/23/lamond-proud-boys-jan6-verdict/