Capitol rioter who wanted to be ‘lone wolf killer’ taken back to jail for stalking DC activist

A Silver Spring man who spent four months in prison for his role in the Capitol riot was taken back to jail in handcuffs Monday for stalking a D.C. activist.

Bryan Betancur Battisti, 26, pleaded guilty in D.C. Superior Court to two counts of contempt of an anti-stalking order. D.C. Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Wingo sentenced him to six months in jail on each count with all but 30 days suspended. Wingo ordered both 30-day sentences to be served consecutively, for a total of 60 days. Battisti will also have to serve two years of supervised probation. According to a copy of the plea agreement filed with the court, Battisti will have to spend the first six months of release on GPS monitoring and also agreed prosecutors could seek for him to be stepped back, or immediately taken to jail, following his sentencing.

Battisti was charged earlier this year with multiple violations of an anti-stalking order barring him from contact with Brianne Chapman, a D.C.-based activist who goes by the moniker “Anarchy Princess” and who frequently counter-protests hearings in cases related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Battisti admitted to two of those violations on Monday, including one incident in February when federal officers briefly detained and escorted him out of the federal courthouse in D.C.

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