A western Kentucky woman pled guilty this week to charges related to the January 6, 2021, riot in Washington, D.C.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, Sherry Stallings, 43, of Morganfield, pled guilty in the District of Columbia to all counts in a superseding indictment charging her with assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement officers (by) using a dangerous weapon, interfering with a law enforcement officer during a civil disorder, and entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, among other charges.
She faces up to 56 years in prison when she is sentenced on January 13, 2023.
According to prosecutors, Stallings and three co-defendants,among other violent acts, sprayed a chemical irritant (pepper spray) at a line of police officers attempting to secure the area of the Lower West Terrace of the Capitol Building.
Her co-defendants, including her husband, Peter J. Schwartz, 49, have pled not guilty to all charges.
Stallings was arrested on February 16 in Owensboro.
By Ken Howlett, News Director
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