A former Oath Keeper who gave “extensive” assistance to federal prosecutors investigating members of the anti-government militia group in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack was on Friday sentenced to three years of probation.
Caleb Berry, 23, traveled to Washington, D.C., ahead of Jan. 6 with members of the Oath Keepers’s Florida chapter when he was 19 years old. He knew the extremist group was bringing a large cache of weapons to the nation’s capital and prepared to take dramatic action to ensure former President Trump would remain in office, prosecutors said.
Berry pleaded guilty in July 2021 to conspiracy and obstructing an official proceeding, admitting to prosecutors that the Oath Keepers planned to try to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election results.
“The way that Berry has owned the severity of his conduct and the extent of........