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HuffPost: Corrupt Cop With Ties To Proud Boys Leader Found Guilty
HuffPost - Corrupt Cop With Ties To Proud Boys Leader Found Guilty
Former D.C. Metropolitan Police Lieutenant Shane Lamond was once entrusted to run the agency’s intelligence division.
By Brandi Buchman
Dec 23, 2024, 11:30 AM EST
WASHINGTON — Shane Lamond, the former leader of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department’s intelligence division, was found guilty on Monday of obstructing justice and lying to federal investigators about leaking insider information to Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the former leader of the extremist Proud Boys who is now serving 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy.
The bench trial for Lamond, who was first charged last year, lasted a little over a week before U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson delivered the verdict. Lamond had waived his right to a jury trial. Sentencing guidelines for the obstruction charge vary between a minimum of three years and a maximum of 30. The false statement charges carry a penalty of up to five years in prison per charge. Lamond is facing three false statement charges.
The 48-year-old veteran of the police force came under criminal investigation when federal agents were examining phones seized in 2021 from members of the far-right Proud Boys. One message from the leader of the Proud Boys, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, suggested that he had a contact on a local police force named “Shane.”
The FBI and the Department of Justice began investigating Lamond shortly afterward, attempting to assess whether the head of MPD’s intelligence division had spent weeks illicitly disclosing sensitive information to Tarrio about a police probe into the destruction of a Black Lives Matter banner. The banner was stolen from a historic Black church in Washington on Dec. 12, 2020, and set on fire. Tarrio eventually pleaded guilty to the destruction charge and was sentenced to five months in prison.
When Tarrio went on trial and was convicted of seditious conspiracy in 2023, prosecutors said the Proud Boys leader used his connection to Lamond to surveil the progress of the banner-burning probe and ultimately coordinate his arrest on Jan. 4, 2021.
/snipThe 48-year-old veteran of the police force came under criminal investigation when federal agents were examining phones seized in 2021 from members of the far-right Proud Boys. One message from the leader of the Proud Boys, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, suggested that he had a contact on a local police force named “Shane.”
The FBI and the Department of Justice began investigating Lamond shortly afterward, attempting to assess whether the head of MPD’s intelligence division had spent weeks illicitly disclosing sensitive information to Tarrio about a police probe into the destruction of a Black Lives Matter banner. The banner was stolen from a historic Black church in Washington on Dec. 12, 2020, and set on fire. Tarrio eventually pleaded guilty to the destruction charge and was sentenced to five months in prison.
When Tarrio went on trial and was convicted of seditious conspiracy in 2023, prosecutors said the Proud Boys leader used his connection to Lamond to surveil the progress of the banner-burning probe and ultimately coordinate his arrest on Jan. 4, 2021.
/snip
Former D.C. Metropolitan Police Lieutenant Shane Lamond was once entrusted to run the agency’s intelligence division.
By Brandi Buchman
Dec 23, 2024, 11:30 AM EST
WASHINGTON — Shane Lamond, the former leader of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department’s intelligence division, was found guilty on Monday of obstructing justice and lying to federal investigators about leaking insider information to Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the former leader of the extremist Proud Boys who is now serving 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy.
The bench trial for Lamond, who was first charged last year, lasted a little over a week before U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson delivered the verdict. Lamond had waived his right to a jury trial. Sentencing guidelines for the obstruction charge vary between a minimum of three years and a maximum of 30. The false statement charges carry a penalty of up to five years in prison per charge. Lamond is facing three false statement charges.
The 48-year-old veteran of the police force came under criminal investigation when federal agents were examining phones seized in 2021 from members of the far-right Proud Boys. One message from the leader of the Proud Boys, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, suggested that he had a contact on a local police force named “Shane.”
The FBI and the Department of Justice began investigating Lamond shortly afterward, attempting to assess whether the head of MPD’s intelligence division had spent weeks illicitly disclosing sensitive information to Tarrio about a police probe into the destruction of a Black Lives Matter banner. The banner was stolen from a historic Black church in Washington on Dec. 12, 2020, and set on fire. Tarrio eventually pleaded guilty to the destruction charge and was sentenced to five months in prison.
When Tarrio went on trial and was convicted of seditious conspiracy in 2023, prosecutors said the Proud Boys leader used his connection to Lamond to surveil the progress of the banner-burning probe and ultimately coordinate his arrest on Jan. 4, 2021.
/snipThe 48-year-old veteran of the police force came under criminal investigation when federal agents were examining phones seized in 2021 from members of the far-right Proud Boys. One message from the leader of the Proud Boys, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, suggested that he had a contact on a local police force named “Shane.”
The FBI and the Department of Justice began investigating Lamond shortly afterward, attempting to assess whether the head of MPD’s intelligence division had spent weeks illicitly disclosing sensitive information to Tarrio about a police probe into the destruction of a Black Lives Matter banner. The banner was stolen from a historic Black church in Washington on Dec. 12, 2020, and set on fire. Tarrio eventually pleaded guilty to the destruction charge and was sentenced to five months in prison.
When Tarrio went on trial and was convicted of seditious conspiracy in 2023, prosecutors said the Proud Boys leader used his connection to Lamond to surveil the progress of the banner-burning probe and ultimately coordinate his arrest on Jan. 4, 2021.
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