A former Washington, D.C., police officer who tipped off the national chairman of the Proud Boys about his impending arrest so he could organize the group’s role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will spend more than a year behind bars for “ acting as a double agent ” in assisting the right-wing militant group.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Friday ordered Shane Lamond, who previously headed the Metropolitan Police Department’s Intelligence Branch , to serve a sentence of 18 months in a federal prison, records show.

Lamond was convicted in December following a seven-day bench trial in which Jackson found that the police officer, who was placed on administrative leave in February 2022 and later retired, had been leaking confidential information to Proud Boys leader Henry

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