Norristown Man Gets 3 Weeks Incarceration In U.S. Capitol Riot

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A 28-year-old Norristown man was sentenced in U.S. District Court here to three weeks in federal prison for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and following a crowd vandalizing a senator’s office.

Carson S. Lucard was also ordered by U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell on Friday to serve three years of probation, including two months of house arrest.

Lucard pleaded guilty in March to entering the Capitol at 2:50 p.m. through a shattered window after attending President Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally in which he told his supporters to go to the Capitol as Congress was certificating the election results.

An estimated 865 people, including 65 from Pennsylvania, have been charged in the Capitol insurrection.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Grace Albinson showed several photographs of Lucard in a crowd breaking into the Capitol to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power to Joe Biden and causing $2.7 million in damage.

The prosecutor asked for a sentence of one month in prison followed by three years of probation.

Co-defendant Brian Sentz, 52, of East Norriton, was sentenced in February to two weeks in prison followed by three years of probation, including two months of house arrest.

The judge added on an additional week of jail time for Lucard because he entered the Capitol twice.

According to court records:

Lucard lingered in the foyer for 15 minutes, yelling at police guarding the area.

He left the Capitol and then re-entered with Sentz into the office of Sen. Jeff Merkley, a Democrat representing Oregon, who later showed a video of his ransacked office with a Trump flag.

Lucard took a few videos with his phone at the event and later deleted them.

Lucard’s lawyer, William J. Brennan of Philadelphia, said Lucard realizes that his presence at the Capitol added to the overall chaos.

Brennan said that Lucard is a full-time caretaker for his father, Richard, who suffers from Guillain-Barre syndrome, a disease in which the immune system attacks the nerves.

The attorney presented several letters from family and friends in support of Lucard.

Lucard’s uncle, Michael R. Stiles, a former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District, wrote in the letter that Lucard is kind, quiet, respectful and well behaved.

He said his nephew’s decision to go to Washington, D.C., was surprising and disappointing, but not motivated by anger or malicious intent.