Daily News | Ex-Marine from South Jersey sentenced to jail time for his role in the Capitol riot
A Marine reservist from Burlington County who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in a “Make Politicians Afraid Again” hat was sentenced to two weeks of intermittent incarceration Tuesday, making himMarcos Panayiotou, 30, of Wrightstown, told a federal judge in Washington that he’d been swept up in the mob outside the building that day, which described as “flowing through the doors like a wave of water.” He said he’d simply “followed the crowd.
Panayiotou first landed on the FBI’s radar after social media photos from the insurrection surfaced of a man wearing his distinctive hat and a black hoodie with the logo for the U.S. Marine’s 1st Maintenance Battalion based in Camp Pendleton, Calif. That means of the roughly 900 charged nationwide, nearly 13% of the defendants were veterans, reservists, active-duty service members, or members of a national guard at the time of the insurrection.
Despite his assertions of being swept up in the crowd that day, security footage showed Panayiotou as among the first to enter the building — climbing through a shattered window and while alarms were blaring — less than 10 minutes after the first breach. His defense lawyer, Carol Dominguez, explained his delay in departing Tuesday by saying that once inside the Capitol, Panayiotou “was struck with a sense of awe for [its] opulent history and beauty.”
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