Another individual with ties to the far-right group the Proud Boys is facing serious legal consequences after their participation in the January 6, 2021, violence at the Capitol.
Steven Miles, from Florida, has pleaded guilty to a felony charge of assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers. A Justice Department press release lumps his actions that day with the actions of others who were also involved with the Proud Boys, leaders of which subsequently faced seditious conspiracy charges and convictions. Miles helped lead the initial charge into the actual Capitol building, though he only stayed inside for a few minutes, per details that the Justice Department has made available. And before that point, he physically engaged with officers who were attempting to defend the premises, even trying to punch one of them.
“Miles confronted U.S. Capitol Police officers, shoving and attempting to punch an officer as LeBrun cheered him on,” the press release says. Matthew LeBrun is Miles’ co-defendant. Miles’ later actions that helped the mob with accessing the Capitol’s interior saw him using a wooden plank in hopes of breaking a window to the Capitol’s Senate wing right as rioters were first accessing the building from any point. (That’s again per federal authorities.) Miles, who the Justice Department noted has appeared in adult films, was originally arrested about a year and a half ago and will face sentencing, which precedent suggests will hand him a single-digit total of years, in February next year according to the current scheduling.
That’s not long before Trump will be going on trial in his federal criminal case from Special Counsel Jack Smith that alleges various attempts at election interference that the federal team has tied to the events of January 6. Presiding Judge Tanya Chutkan has insisted the trial date will not be moved at this stage, leaving trial set for early March 2024.
