(Ken Silva, Headline USA) An FBI informant who was a member of the Proud Boys, the white nationalist Patriot Front and the neo-Nazi group The Base—and who allegedly stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021—was given “time served” for a recent felony gun charge.
The defendant, Michael Alan Jones, was sentenced to time served and two years of supervised release for unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon—a charge stemming from a March 2022 traffic stop in upstate New York, where police officers allegedly found him in possession of an illegally modified AR-15.
Jones had previously been convicted of two felony sex crimes. His lawyer said Jones’s “then-minor girlfriend twice performed oral sex on him in the boys’ bathroom of their high school.”
Last week, his lawyer asked a court to avoid more prison time for his latest crime. Jones had already served about six months in prison, and has been on home detention since last December, when his leg almost had to be amputated, according to his lawyer.
Jones’s lawyer admitted in a recent letter that his client was a member of the Proud Boys.
“However, since that time, he has changed his thinking and actually worked as a paid FBI informant who infiltrated the Charlotte chapter of the Proud Boys and gave agents valuable information about the organization,” Jones’s lawyer said.
“Jones has since matured and no longer harbors these views. In fact, renouncing these views was a prerequisite for his parents allowing him to come back to their home after he was released from jail,” he said, omitting Jones’s past affiliations with the Patriot Front, The Base or J6.
The Justice Department, for its part, asked for Jones to serve 24- to 30-months imprisonment, arguing that such a punishment is consistent with sentencing guidelines.
Jones’s arrest last year reportedly made waves among the Proud Boys and other right-wing groups. The left-leaning media outlet Raw Story obtained leaked messages that showed them discussing Jones.
“They created a whole new degree of f—ed-upness,” a member identified as “Jimbob Smith” reportedly said on Telegram. “It’s a fed-ophile. It was a fed informant mixed with a pedophile. Only Charlotte can do that!”
Raw Story also reported that Jones “fought with the police alongside the Proud Boys at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.” Jones has not been charged in relation to J6.
Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.
