Former Tennessee sheriff’s deputy Ronald Colton McAbee was found guilty on all five felony counts he faced before a federal jury in Washington D.C., including a hotly contested charge of assaulting a law enforcement officer at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Mr. McAbee, 29, of Unionville, Tennessee, was found guilty of inflicting bodily injury on Metropolitan Police Department Officer Andrew Wayte, civil disorder, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, and engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon.
