A former police chief from Texas has been sentenced to over 11 years in prison by a district court after being convicted on charges related to the Jan. 6 Capitol breach.
Alan Hostetter, 59, from Poolville, Texas, was sentenced to 135 months in prison and 36 months of supervised release by a district judge, according to a Dec. 7 press release by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). He was found guilty of four felonies in July. Evidence presented during the trial claimed that the retired police chief “coordinated with his co-conspirators to obstruct and interfere with the joint session of Congress at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, convened in order to certify the electoral college vote.”…