Man Who Assaulted Officers on Jan. 6 Sentenced to Over 1 Year in Prison

Published on April 18, 2024

A Tennessee man who admitted to assaulting law enforcement officers on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced on April 17 to more than one year in prison. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, handed down a sentence of 20 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release to Joshua Portlock during a hearing in federal court in Washington. Mr. Portlock, 42, was also ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution. The Smyrna resident was charged with eight counts. In 2023, he pleaded guilty to assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement officers, a felony that carries a maximum sentence of eight years, in exchange for the other counts being dropped....

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