Former Oath Keeper Ray Epps sentenced to year of probation in Jan 6. case

A Jan. 6 defendant who has been the target of conspiracy theories was sentenced to one year of probation on Tuesday.

Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg decided Ray Epps would serve one year of probation after Department of Justice prosecutors asked for six months of jail time. Epps was one of the first Jan. 6 defendants to breach the Capitol perimeter on the day of the riot.

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Former President Donald Trump and his supporters have floated the theory that Epps was a "fed" who instigated the Jan. 6 attack.

"Other than his four years in the Marines, Epps has never been a federal agent," Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Gordon wrote in a sentencing memo. "He was not a federal agent or working at the direction of a federal agent on January [6]; Epps only acted in furtherance of his own misguided belief in the 'lie' that the 2020 presidential election had been 'stolen.'"