DOJ Seeks to Jail Ray Epps for 6 Months for Jan. 6 Disorderly Conduct

Prosecutors said Epps ‘has been the target of a false and widespread conspiracy theory that he was an undercover government agent on January 6.’

Ray Epps speaks to police officers near a barricade on the west plaza of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Metropolitan Police Department/Screenshot via The Epoch Times

Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to send James Ray Epps Sr. to jail for six months when he appears for sentencing Jan. 9 on one count of disorderly or disruptive conduct at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The U.S. Department of Justice acknowledged in its 29-page sentencing memorandum that the Epps case stands alone among Jan. 6 prosecutions—not just for its lightning speed but also for the “compelling mitigating factors” that led to his pre-indictment plea deal in September 2023.