Fort Bragg soldier gets 44-month sentence for role in Jan. 6 insurrection

A Fort Bragg soldier was sentenced last week to 44 months in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

James Phillip Mault, of Brockport, N.Y., was arrested on post in October 2021, after having re-enlisted in the Army after the insurrection.

He pleaded guilty in April to assaulting, resisting or impeding officers using a dangerous weapon or inflicting bodily injury, civil disorder, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building and an act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings.

Chief Judge Beryl Howell sentenced Mault alongside his co-defendant Cody Mattice.

“They were not patriots on Jan. 6,” Howell said. “No one who broke police lines that day were. They were criminals.”

After his active prison time of 44 months, Mault will serve three years supervised probation and pay $2,000 in restitution.

Mault went to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 with a group of friends and was seen in various videos shot during the riot climbing onto the sally port on the west side of the Capitol and spraying "a chemical agent" at law enforcement officers inside, according to a criminal complaint filed by the FBI.

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