HARTFORD, Conn. — The Canterbury mother and daughter who went into the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot in 2021 were sentenced Friday, with the mom ordered to go to jail for five weekends, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office said.
Jean Lavin, 57, was sentenced to 36 months of probation, including 10 days of intermittent confinement, Bill Miller said, meaning she would be in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons for five weekends.
Her sentence also includes 60 days of home detention, a $2,500 fine and $500 in restitution, said Miller, of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington D.C.
Her daughter, Carla Krzywicki, 20, also was sentenced to 36 months of probation, but her probation includes 90 days of home detention, Miller said. In addition, she must pay $500 in restitution.
Both women were sentenced in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia before Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell.
The women pleaded guilty to a trespassing charge in January.
The pair told authorities they went to Washington on a bus trip with a Facebook group to hear President Donald Trump speak about his election loss. After missing the speech because the bus driver got lost in New York, they followed the crowd to the Capitol, climbed an overturned bike rack to get into the Senate side of the building and wandered around for about six minutes.
According to charging documents in the case, an unidentified tipster told the FBI that the women had entered the Capitol after seeing a photograph Krzywicki posted to her Facebook account. In the post, she said they were making “history,” and had “come for the officials that run our country.” She ended up taking the post down.
The women pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. Federal prosecutors dropped three other charges — including one of violent conduct — as a part of a plea bargain agreement.
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