CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio man who admitted threatening a witness after posting videos from the U.S. Capitol riots was sentenced Wednesday to two years of probation.

What You Need To Know

  • Justin Stoll, of Wilmington, pleaded guilty in January to transmitting a threat to injure

  • Authorities allege Stoll breached the security barricades at the Capitol, but did not enter the building

  • Stoll attended the rally and eventually went with other rioters past police barricades according to court documents

  • He recorded videos showing this and posted them online

Justin Stoll, of Wilmington, had pleaded guilty in January in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati to transmitting a threat to injure. Authorities allege Stoll breached the security barricades at the Capitol, but did not enter the building on Jan. 6.

According to court documents, Stoll attended the rally and eventually went with other rioters past police barricades that had been torn down. He recorded videos showing this and posted them online.

Federal prosecutors have said Stoll declared in one video taken Jan. 6, “D.C.’s a war zone!... You ain’t got enough cops, baby! We are at war at the Capitol… We have taken the Capitol. This is our country.”

When one online viewer said they’d saved his video, Stoll warned that if the viewer took action to “ever jeopardize me, from being with my family,” then the person would meet his or her “maker,” and that he would be the one to “arrange the meeting.”

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