Logan Barnhart
Logan Barnhart, circled in yellow, seen in body-camera footage camera from a Washington Metropolitan Police Department officer.
  • Logan Barnhart, a Michigan pipelayer and bodybuilder, was sentenced to 3 years in prison on Friday.
  • Internet sleuths used facial recognition to uncover his modeling work on romance novel covers.
  • A reader review of one of the novels said the book got her "hot and bothered."

A Michigan pipelayer who modeled shirtless for the cover of several romance novels, including one in which a woman lusts after her Navy SEAL stepbrother, was sentenced to three years in prison on Thursday for assaulting law enforcement officers during the January 6 riot.

Logan James Barnhart, 41, became a man of interest to federal authorities after he was photographed dragging a police officer down a set of stairs at the Capitol building.