A woman who lived in Ocean County when He entered the US Capitol with rioters on January 6, 2021. He will serve 45 days behind bars.

Anna Lichnowski, 37, was also sentenced to serve three years of probation, perform 200 hours of community service and pay a $2,500 fine and $500 in restitution, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia told NJ Advance Media after his Friday morning hearing. .

A judge convicted Lichnowski of four misdemeanors during a trial this summer in federal court in Washington, DC. After the riot, she posted a photo of herself on social media with a caption saying she was “proud” to have stormed the Capitol.

She lived in Brick in January 2021 and now lives in Florida where she works as a tour boat captain.

Federal prosecutors sought a 12-month prison sentence. His attorney, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday, argued for probation.

On Thursday, a judge denied a last-ditch effort by Lichnowski’s legal team to postpone his sentencing until next year “to allow him to seek a presidential pardon” from Donald Trump. The judge wrote in his order that “the possible future exercise of the discretionary pardon power” was “irrelevant” to the court’s obligation to sentence Lichnowski.

Lawyers for the 37-year-old woman previously attempted to portray her as someone who has overcome great adversity, including near-fatal overdoses, and who has struggled with substance abuse issues after the death of her mother when she was just 18 years old.

Lichnowski went to Florida previously, but returned to care for his younger siblings during a difficult personal period in his life. “Despite her deteriorating physical and mental health, she empowered her younger sisters to become successful women who graduated from college, began successful careers, and moved out of state to lead better lives,” her attorneys wrote. in a sentencing report.

The report also says that at the time of the riot, Lichnowski was a federal employee working as a disaster loan specialist for the Small business administration. He also graduated from Monmouth University.

Lichnowski currently owns a home with his fiancée, is active in his Florida community and apprentices with young women, according to the report, which mentions several letters submitted to the court on his behalf by family, friends, colleagues and apprentices, many from which would be negatively affected by his imprisonment, according to his lawyers. (The letters were not available in the court record.)

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“The defendant, by all accounts, has rehabilitated herself from a past life that certainly could have led her to a life of crime. He has dedicated half of his adult life to achieving his personal and professional potential. “She would not risk her life to commit crimes in the future,” the report argues.

He also said the letters show Lichnowski “accepted responsibility and showed remorse toward those closest to her. “She should not be penalized for not having made an obsequious display of submission to the Federal Government.”

Federal prosecutors argued in their report that Lichnowski needed to go to prison because, even after his conviction, he continues to question his role on Jan. 6.

Lichnowski objected to the information in the pre-sentence reports by submitting affidavits from herself and a friend who she said called her on January 6, 2021, with the news that Congress had been evacuated from the Capitol, supposedly before Lichnowski entered.

The call never occurred and Lichnowski is making a “belated attempt to re-litigate the Court’s factual conclusion that she testified falsely,” according to the prosecutor’s report.

“Doubling down on this spurious narrative, Lichnowski still has not come to terms with his conduct on January 6 and lacks remorse for his actions,” the report says.

The report described the judge at his trial as not finding his testimony “convincing” or “truthful” and his attempts to “mislead” him with various falsehoods.

Lichnowski illegally entered the Capitol, remained there after a police officer ordered him to leave, and then remained in another restricted area outside for 45 minutes, the report says. She was found guilty.

Prosecutors’ report said Lichnowski has no criminal record and is a college graduate.

“But by the same token, nothing in Lichnowski’s background mitigates his guilt for his crimes as part of the mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021. By contrast, he was 33 years old at the time of the crime. “I should have known better than to participate in a riot, especially when I knew full well that Congress and the vice president would be there administering their constitutional obligations.”