A former Washington D.C. police officer has been found guilty of acting as a "double agent" for the leader of the Proud Boys ahead of the January 6th riot.

Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson convicted Shane Lamond, 48, of leaking information to Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio about a warrant for his arrest.

Relationship with Tarrio

The bench trial highlighted the extensive infiltration of right-wing groups like the Proud Boys by the authorities. The FBI had some 26 informants present at the Capitol on January 6th, a recent government report concluded.

Tarrio was convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 22 years in prison, the longest punishment of any January 6th defendant. Tarrio was not present at the Capitol because of his arrest in a separate vandalism case days before.

Lamond had tipped Tarrio off about an arrest warrant for burning a Black Lives Matter flag at a separate protest in December 2020. The two established contact in July 2019, during Lamond's duties as a police intelligence officer.

During Lamond's trial, prosecutors painted Lamond as a disloyal cop and Proud Boys sympathizer who became a source for the right-wing group.

After January 6th, Lamond told Tarrio in a text that he did not want to see the Proud Boys "dragged through the mud." But Lamond's lawyers argued his support for the Proud Boys was all a front to build rapport with Tarrio.

"A sad day"

Tarrio had testified that Lamond never shared sensitive information with him. But Judge Jackson called Tarrio's dramatic testimony "flippant, grandiose, and obnoxious" and mostly worthless for Lamond's defense.

Lamond had also testified in his own defense, telling the judge he never shared confidential info with Tarrio. But after a seven-day bench trial, judge Jackson found Lamond guilty of four counts of obstructing justice and making false statements.

The judge agreed with prosecutors that Lamond became a source for Tarrio and not the other way around.

"The defendant wasn’t using Tarrio as a source,” she said. “It was the other way around."

Lamond will be sentenced in April. His lawyer Mark Schamel lamented Jackson's verdict as a mistake.

“There is nothing disloyal about him at all, and it’s a sad day for him,” the lawyer said.

President-elect Trump has pledged to pardon many of the more than 1,500 people charged over January 6th, whom Trump has called patriots and "hostages" of a weaponized government.