WASHINGTON — A man who crushed D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges with a police shield on Jan. 6 was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in federal prison on Friday.
Patrick McCaughey III, who was dubbed #ThePinman by online sleuths, was present during some of the worst violence inside the lower west tunnel, the spot where presidents emerge during inauguration ceremonies. McCaughey was sentenced by Judge Trevor McFadden, a Donald Trump appointee who previously delivered the only full acquittal for a Jan. 6 defendant to date and has imposed more lenient sentences than other judges in the Capitol riot cases.
Federal prosecutors sought a sentence of more than 15 years — 188 months — in federal prison, which would have broken the record for the longest sentence in a Jan. 6 case: the 10-year sentence given to former New York City Police Department officer Thomas Webster.
McCaughey faced a bench trial before Judge McFadden alongside David Mehaffie of Ohio and Tristan Stevens of Florida. McCaughey was convicted on every count in September, was ordered detained after the verdict and has been in custody ever since. Mehaffie was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison, while Stevens was sentenced to five years at a hearing in which he rattled off a number of conspiracy theories.
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