Feds seek 13 months in prison for ex-firefighter who stormed U.S. Capitol

Federal prosecutors are seeking more than a year in prison for a retired Chicago firefighter who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with a far-right militia group and tried to force his way through a line of police officers to an area where some lawmakers had taken shelter. Joseph Pavlik, 66, of Chicago, “came to the Capitol prepared for violence” and “fanned the flames of the mob” through his actions that day, prosecutors wrote in a memo filed on Friday seeking a sentence of 13 months behind bars. Pavlik, who retired from the Chicago Fire Department in 2013 after a 33-year career as a ...