COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado — A sentencing that took four and a half hours in federal district court in Washington, D.C., Monday afternoon left 72-year-old great-grandmother Rebecca Lavrenz of Falcon with no prison time for her participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach.
What a magistrate judge did levy for her April 4 conviction on four misdemeanor counts: one year of probation, six months of house arrest with an ankle monitor as soon as she returns to her residence located about 14 miles northeast of Colorado Springs — and a $103,000 fine for funds she’s raised from the public.
“I think it was a miracle that I don’t have to go to prison — that I am grateful for,” Lavrenz said by phone after the sentencing.
Lavrenz said she was called by God to go to the Capitol to pray at the “Stop the Steal” rally supporters of former President Donald Trump held as Congress met in a joint session to count Electoral College votes for the 2020 presidential election.
“God led me to go there and into the building to stand up for my First Amendment rights to petition the government for a redress of grievances,” she previously told The Gazette.
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