Gus Bilirakis writes letter in support of Tampa Bay Jan. 6 protester

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He’s the second local member of Congress to do so, following Anna Paulina Luna.

Another Republican U.S. representative has written a letter asking a federal judge to consider a shorter sentence for Jeremy Michael Brown, a Tampa Bay-area man who protested at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

In a letter to Middle District of Florida Judge Susan Bucklew, Rep. Gus Bilirakis argued Brown, a former U.S. Army Special Forces master sergeant, should get less than the nine years he’s facing for illegally possessing weapons, grenades and a classified document.

“He has lived an exemplary life with no incidents of violence and no criminal history,” Bilirakis wrote in his letter.

Federal prosecutors say Brown was at the Capitol with the extremist Oath Keepers group. His defense team says Brown was working security at the Jan. 6 protest as a volunteer. Unlike many of those arrested in connection to Jan. 6, Brown’s felony charges were only indirectly related to his actions that day. His most serious legal troubles arose when federal agents investigating the riots searched his Hillsborough County property and found the illicit items. In December, he was convicted of six of 10 charges.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/04/05/january-6-jeremy-brown-bilirakis-anna-paulina-luna/

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