DC Police Lieutenant Warned Proud Boys Chief: Prosecutors

• Federal prosecutors allege a DC police lieutenant warned Happy Boys leader Enrique Tarrio of his impending arrest. 
• The feds say Shane Lamond sent hundreds of messages to Tarrio and voiced his guidance.
• Lamond has been charged with obstruction of justice and providing phony statements. 

A law enforcement lieutenant in Washington, DC, has been arrested and charged with supporting the Very pleased Boys and warning the extremist group’s leader Enrique Tarrio about his impending arrest, in accordance to the Department of Justice. 

Federal prosecutors allege that Lt. Shane Lamond gave Tarrio private information about the police investigation into Tarrio burning a Black Life Issue banner in December 2020.

In accordance to the indictment, Lamond warned Tarrio on January 4, 2021 — two times right before the Capitol riot — that there was a warrant out for his arrest in link to the flag burning.

Tarrio then handed this details on to other Proud Boys members, according to the indictment. In spite of the warning, Tarrio was arrested the very same working day. 

The Metropolitan Police Department did not promptly respond to Insider’s ask for for remark and the US District Court for the District of Columbia mentioned there was no attorney on file for Lamond still. 

Lamond and Tarrio sent hundreds of messages to just about every other amongst July 2019 and January 2021, prosecutors say.

Lamond also explained to Tarrio that he tried to persuade a further police officer that the Very pleased Boys weren’t racist and that the flag burning should not be deemed a despise crime, prosecutors say.

“Of course, I can not say it officially, but personally I aid you all and do not want to see your group’s identify or track record dragged via the mud,” Lamond mentioned to Tarrio on January 8, 2021, four days just after Tarrio was arrested, according to the indictment.

Lamond has been charged with a person depend of obstruction of justice and three counts of offering false statements he is established to be arraigned on Friday. 

Tarrio was convicted past thirty day period of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Capitol riot. But the Happy Boys are even now thriving even with modern prosecutions, with users concentrating on focusing on the LGBTQ neighborhood, especially, drag performers, Insider beforehand reported.

• Federal prosecutors allege a DC police lieutenant warned Happy Boys leader Enrique Tarrio of his impending arrest. 
• The feds say Shane Lamond sent hundreds of messages to Tarrio and voiced his guidance.
• Lamond has been charged with obstruction of justice and providing phony statements. 

A law enforcement lieutenant in Washington, DC, has been arrested and charged with supporting the Very pleased Boys and warning the extremist group’s leader Enrique Tarrio about his impending arrest, in accordance to the Department of Justice. 

Federal prosecutors allege that Lt. Shane Lamond gave Tarrio private information about the police investigation into Tarrio burning a Black Life Issue banner in December 2020.

In accordance to the indictment, Lamond warned Tarrio on January 4, 2021 — two times right before the Capitol riot — that there was a warrant out for his arrest in link to the flag burning.

Tarrio then handed this details on to other Proud Boys members, according to the indictment. In spite of the warning, Tarrio was arrested the very same working day. 

The Metropolitan Police Department did not promptly respond to Insider’s ask for for remark and the US District Court for the District of Columbia mentioned there was no attorney on file for Lamond still. 

Lamond and Tarrio sent hundreds of messages to just about every other amongst July 2019 and January 2021, prosecutors say.

Lamond also explained to Tarrio that he tried to persuade a further police officer that the Very pleased Boys weren’t racist and that the flag burning should not be deemed a despise crime, prosecutors say.

“Of course, I can not say it officially, but personally I aid you all and do not want to see your group’s identify or track record dragged via the mud,” Lamond mentioned to Tarrio on January 8, 2021, four days just after Tarrio was arrested, according to the indictment.

Lamond has been charged with a person depend of obstruction of justice and three counts of offering false statements he is established to be arraigned on Friday. 

Tarrio was convicted past thirty day period of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Capitol riot. But the Happy Boys are even now thriving even with modern prosecutions, with users concentrating on focusing on the LGBTQ neighborhood, especially, drag performers, Insider beforehand reported.