Marine veteran who boasted about assaulting police officers with chemical spray on Jan. 6 is sentenced to more than 5 years

• A Marine veteran was sentenced to more than 5 years in prison on a Jan. 6 charge on Wednesday.
• Daniel Caldwell, 51, has been in pre-trial custody since he was arrested in Feb. 2021.
• Prosecutors say he was caught on camera assaulting police officers and later bragging about it.

A Marine veteran who was caught on camera assaulting a line of police officers with a chemical irritant on Jan. 6, and later bragged about the attack in a video interview was sentenced to more than five years in prison on Wednesday in one of the steepest sentences stemming from the insurrection thus far.