Corrupt Cop With Ties To Proud Boys Leader Found Guilty
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — Shane Lamond, the former leader of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department’s intelligence division, was found guilty on Monday of obstructing justice and lying to federal investigators about leaking insider information to Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the former leader of the extremist Proud Boys who is now serving 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy. One message from the leader of the Proud Boys, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, suggested that he had a contact on a local police force named “Shane.” The FBI and the Department of Justice began investigating Lamond shortly afterward, attempting to assess whether the head of MPD’s intelligence division had spent weeks illicitly disclosing sensitive information to Tarrio about a police probe into the destruction of a Black Lives Matter banner. When Lamond took the witness stand on Dec. 6, he said he never supported the Proud Boys organization and was not, as U.S. attorneys argued, a “Proud Boys sympathizer” or “double agent.” The regular contact with Tarrio was “critical to get verified intelligence on the activities of these groups,” he testified, according to a local CBS affiliate. Lamond testified that he didn’t think telling Tarrio about the possible hate crime enhancement was that big of a deal because it was “public information” that the banner-burning might be treated as a hate crime.