“Gyrocopter pilot who landed at U.S. Capitol sentenced to four months in prison”

WaPo:

A federal judge sentenced a former Florida postal worker to four months in prison Thursday for his gyrocopter flight last year to the U.S. Capitol, a campaign finance protest cited in recent demonstrations that led to 1,200 arrests in Washington.

“You had tunnel vision for publicity and media attention to yourself and not to the public-safety consequences,” U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly told Douglas Hughes, 62, of Ruskin, Fla., ordering him to stay away from the White House and U.S. Capitol grounds after his release.

Hughes’s “publicity stunt” recklessly endangered others in what Kollar-Kotelly called an act of “self-aggrandizement.” She said she hoped a prison sentence would deter others “who might not be so lucky” to avoid accidental or intentional downing for violating no-fly zones around the nation’s capital.

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