EXCLUSIVE: Jan. 6 Defendant Says Judge Imposed Excessive Drug Charge Sentence Because of Role in Capitol Breach

EXCLUSIVE: Jan. 6 Defendant Says Judge Imposed Excessive Drug Charge Sentence Because of Role in Capitol Breach
Jan. 6 prisoner Kash Kelly stands before the Washington Monument in this undated photo. Courtesy of Erica Nicole Conklin
Patricia Tolson
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An Indiana man who was sentenced to four years of incarceration and three years of supervised release for a drug charge from 2017 insists the “judge took into account” his presence in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, to punish him “two times.”

In February 2021, 33-year-old Kash Kelly of Hammond, Indiana, was sentenced for conspiracy with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana when he was a Latin King gang member in Chicago. The gang was founded there in the mid-20th century and has become a major drug trafficking organization, according to the Department of Justice.

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