A militia group member who communicated with other far-right extremists while they stormed the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison.
For weeks before the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, Kentucky electrician Dan Edwin Wilson planned with others to attack the Capitol and stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden, according to federal prosecutors.
Wilson told U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich that he regrets entering the Capitol that day but "got involved with good intentions."
"Our country was in turmoil," he said. "I believe it still is."
The judge said there is "no question" that Wilson intended to interfere with the congressional certification of Biden's 2020 electoral victory over Trump.
