A 37-year-old man from Texas who used to work for Alex Jones has been sentenced to four months of home detention and 60 hours of community service for filming the breach of the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Samuel Montoya was documenting the event as a journalist when he reportedly found himself inside the Capitol where he witnessed the incident involving 35-year-old Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt.
Babbitt, as the media reported, was “fatally shot outside the Speaker’s Lobby.” And Montoya was right there to film it, his family members told the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center in a tip, claiming that he showed them the footage firsthand.
At the time, Montoya was a video editor for Infowars who allegedly showed up on his own after being told by Jones to stay in Texas to work on the site’s broadcasts while Jones and others went to Washington, D.C., for the “Stop the Steal” rally.
“Jones said that Montoya went to D.C. on his own and that Jones had instructed his staff not to go inside the U.S. Capitol,” wrote Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexis Loeb in a court filing.
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