Jay Johnston: Anchorman actor faces up to five years in prison after admitting role in Capitol riots | Ents & Arts News

A comedic actor who starred in Anchorman and Arrested Development faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to interfering with police officers during the U.S. Capitol riots.

Jay Johnston, who also voiced pizza parlor owner Jimmy Pesto on the animated sitcom Bob's Burgers, is one of more than 1,400 people who have been charged with crimes related to the violence that occurred in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021.

Video footage showed the 55-year-old pushing against police and helping rioters during the unrest in the Lower West Tunnel leading to the Capitol.

It was in this tunnel that some of the worst violence between rioters and police took place during the chaos.

Johnston, a Los Angeles native, was “near the tunnel entrance, turned and motioned for other rioters to come toward the entrance,” according to an FBI agent's affidavit.

He also held a stolen police shield above his head and passed it to other rioters during the attack, the affidavit added.

THE attack of January 6, 2021 intended to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power Donald Trump has Joe Biden after the 2020 presidential election.

A court filing accompanying Johnston's plea agreement says he used his cellphone to record rioters as they broke through barricades and forced police to retreat.

According to the agent, three current or former associates of Johnston identified him as a riot suspect from photos the FBI posted online.

The FBI said one of those associates provided investigators with a text message in which Johnston acknowledged being at the Capitol on the day of the riots.

“The media portrayed it as an attack. It wasn’t. I thought it turned into that. It was a disaster. I was sprayed with pepper spray and pepper spray and I found it pretty disgusting,” Johnston wrote, according to the FBI.

The actor, arrested in June last year, faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison after pleading guilty to civil disorder.

He is due to be tried on October 7.

Johnston faced professional backlash long before he was charged for his role in the riots.

His character on Bob's Burgers was written out of the series due to the actor's involvement in the storming of the Capitol, the Daily Beast reported in December 2021.

Early in his Hollywood career, Johnston regularly played police officers, notably on The Sarah Silverman Show and Arrested Development.

Johnston also played a member of Wes Mantooth's news crew during the epic battle scene in Anchorman, the 2004 comedy classic starring Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy.

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What happened during the US Capitol riots?

Five police officers died and 140 were seriously injured in the insurrection that took place two months after Trump's defeat in the 2020 presidential election.

His supporters demonstrated outside the US Capitol in Washington DC, and some entered it.

The mob sought to keep Trump in power by preventing a joint session of Congress from counting the Electoral College votes to formalize President-elect Biden's victory.

The FBI has made more than 1,400 arrests and obtained more than 1,000 convictions in connection with the riots.

While hundreds of lesser defendants have been sentenced to probation, more than 540 prison sentences have been handed down, ranging from a few days behind bars to 22 years in federal prison.

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