Four members of the Oath Keepers were convicted of conspiring to interfere with an official proceeding in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol on Monday, as a judge ordered jurors to continue deliberating the most serious counts against two additional defendants.
Sandra Parker, Laura Steele, Connie Meggs and William Isaacs were found guilty of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. The jury found Michael Greene, another member of the Oath Keepers, not guilty of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, but was still debating whether he was guilty of aiding or abetting the obstruction of an official proceeding. Bennie Parker was found not guilty of aiding or abetting, but the jury was still deliberating the conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding charge.
The six members of the far-right group were found guilty of entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds. Parker and Greene may be convicted of the charge, but they may not be convicted of it.
This was the third group of Oath Keepers members to go to trial for their actions on January 6, but these defendants did not face the more serious and seldom-used charge of seditious conspiracy that those in the first two groups faced.
Parker, Steele, Meggs and Isaacs were said to have entered the Capitol, while Greene and Parker were not.
Jurors began their first full day of deliberations on March 13.
Greene testified at the trial that the Oath Keepers were like old men talking trash at the barber shop. Greene noted that two of the men he was charged with were old as s. In relation to Jan. 6, nine other members of the Oath Keepers were tried. Five of them — Stewart Rhodes, Kelly Meggs, Jessica Watkins, Kenneth Harrelson and Thomas Caldwell — were found guilty in November of a charge of obstruction of an official proceeding. Two of them, the founders of Oath Keepers, Rhodes and Meggs, were found guilty of seditious conspiracy.