From the Justice Department:
An Idaho woman was sentenced in the District of Columbia today on two felonies and four misdemeanors related to her actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol.
Her actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.
Yvonne St Cyr, 55, of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John D. Bates to 30 months in prison, 36 months of supervised release, and ordered to pay $3,000 in restitution and fines.
According to the evidence presented at trial, St Cyr, a former Marine Corps drill instructor, traveled from Idaho to Washington, D.C., to attend a rally on Jan. 6, 2021.
After leaving the rally, St Cyr went to the U.S. Capitol building, where she joined a crowd of rioters who occupied the Lower West Plaza.
When she arrived at the Capitol, St Cyr forced her way to the front of the crowd and pushed her body against the police line barricades on the Lower West Plaza.
Despite orders from police, St Cyr remained there for more than fifteen minutes, disobeying police commands to move.
When the crowd ultimately overwhelmed the police officers in that area, St Cyr was one of the first rioters to break through the fence line.
She then marched forward, eventually making her way into the Lower West Terrace Tunnel, where she witnessed vicious acts of violence against police officers.
St Cyr entered the Tunnel twice and eventually climbed onto a ledge overlooking the crowd of rioters, which she filmed with her phone and shouted at the crowd, “We need fresh people” and “Push, push, push.”
After leaving the Tunnel, St Cyr climbed through a broken window, entering a Senator’s hideaway room adjacent to the Tunnel. Once inside, St Cyr helped another rioter enter and made a livestreamed video of herself while occupying the room.
Boise’s NBC affiliate reports:
In a live video that appears to have been taken in St Cyr’s hotel room following the riot, she talks about breaching the Capitol and references the QAnon conspiracy theory, which claims that the government is controlled by a secret cabal of Satan-worshiping Democrats and elites who sexually assault children and drink their blood. She also repeated unfounded claims that President Joe Biden’s victory was the result of fraud.
In a video posted before her sentencing, she said even if she does end up in federal custody, “prison will give me plenty of time to write a book.” “I understood what Jesus felt like when he was in the garden of Gethsemane praying and felt so alone,” St Cyr said, apparently referring to the four Gospels that said Jesus Christ prayed in Gethsemane, a Biblical site in Jerusalem, before his crucifixion.
Tonight Yvonne St Cyr, who has just been sentenced to 30 months in prison for her role on January 6, spoke out in front of the DC Jail.
“I am very proud of what I did, and that pissed the judge off because I showed no remorse,” she explained. “Why would I show remorse for… pic.twitter.com/u2dqlqYg6m
— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) September 14, 2023
Accused Rioter Believed JFK Jr. Would Be Trump’s VP – https://t.co/5kcoX4iQAi pic.twitter.com/C3xCYrxP7Q
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) March 5, 2021
J6ers Ryan Zink and Yvonne St. Cyr showed up at #FreedomCorner to whine tonight. Ryan was just convicted on all his charges today, and Yvonne was sentenced to 30-months in prison after being convicted previously. #EvictFreedomCorner pic.twitter.com/9Rl746cor1
— Jane (@jam6242) September 13, 2023
After her sentencing Wednesday, Yvonne St Cyr was defiant on social media. She said that in prison, she’d teach women how to “become free individuals.” https://t.co/qJqdlsXNWQ
— Idaho Statesman (@IdahoStatesman) September 13, 2023