Actor Jay Johnston, who starred in “Bob’s Burgers” and “Anchorman,” faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to interfering with police officers during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

• Jay Johnston will be sentenced in October and faces up to five years in prison.

Actor Jay Johnston, who starred in Bob’s Burgers and Anchorman, faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to interfering with police officers during the Jan. 6 riot.

Johnston, 55, who voiced pizzeria owner Jimmy Pesto in the popular cartoon, was arrested in June on charges related to the riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Video footage captured by Johnston, Los Angeles, Pushing against the police and aiding rioters who attacked officers guarding the entrance to the Capitol in a tunnel on the lower West Terrace, According to an FBI agent’s statement.

Evidence also suggests that the actor was holding a stolen police shield over his head and passing it to other rioters during the attack.

Johnston faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison after pleading guilty to felony civil disorder on Monday. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 7.

Johnston, who Arrested Last June, he was one of more than 1,400 people charged with federal crimes stemming from the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The defendant pleaded guilty Monday to interfering with police officers as they tried to protect him from a mob attack. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols is scheduled to issue his sentence in October.

Johnston’s sentencing guidelines recommend a prison sentence of eight to 14 months, but the judge is not bound by that requirement in the plea agreement with prosecutors.

Johnston’s attorney, Stanley Woodward, asked his client not to comment to reporters as they left the courtroom on Monday.

The actor was recorded pushing police and helping rioters who attacked officers guarding the Capitol entrance in a tunnel on the lower west terrace, according to evidence from an FBI agent.

“Johnston was near the tunnel entrance, turned around and signaled to other rioters to head toward the entrance,” the affidavit said.

A court document attached to Johnston’s plea agreement says he used his cellphone to record rioters as they stormed barricades and forced police officers back.

Facing the crowd on the lower west terrace, Johnston pumped his fist and gestured. One of the rioters then handed him a bottle of water, which he used to help others wash the chemicals out of their eyes.

After passing the stolen shield, Johnson joined other rioters in pushing en masse against police officers guarding the tunnel entrance. He left the tunnel minutes later, according to the agreement Johnston signed.

Three of Johnston’s current or former colleagues identified him as a riot suspect from photos the FBI posted online, the agent said.

The FBI said one of those accomplices provided investigators with a text message in which Johnston admitted to being at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

“The news portrayed it as an attack. But it wasn’t really. I thought it turned into that. It was chaotic. I was sprayed with batons and tear gas and I found it unsurprising,” according to the FBI.

Johnston was the voice of Jimmy Pesto on the Fox series Bob’s Burgers. The Daily Beast reported In 2021, Johnston was “banned” from the animated show after the Capitol attack.

Johnston appeared on Mr. Show with Bob and David, an HBO comedy series starring Bob Odenkirk and David Cross.

His work also includes small parts on the TV show Arrested Development and in the movie Anchorman, starring Will Ferrell.

Also Monday, a Texas woman pleaded guilty to assaulting a Metropolitan Police Department officer during the Jan. 6 riots.

Dana Jean Bell was captured on video cursing at officers inside the Capitol building and grabbing an officer’s baton, according to The New York Times. FBI Agent Certificate.

Bell, 65, of Princeton, Texas, was also videotaped assaulting a local television journalist outside the Capitol that day.

The FBI affidavit said Bell appeared to reach out and push or grab the journalist, who worked for Fox’s Washington, D.C., affiliate.

Bell faces a maximum sentence of eight years in prison. Judge Timothy Kelly is scheduled to sentence her on October 17.

Its sentencing guidelines recommend a prison term of between two years and two years and six months.

Bell and her attorney, Joe Sheerin, declined to comment as they left the courtroom.

The Supreme Court ruled in June that there were limits to charging Capitol rioters with obstruction of justice.

The court ruling makes it difficult to charge defendants in the January 6 events with obstruction of official proceedings – which carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison – and could upend hundreds of cases.

Officials said the ruling would not have an immediate impact on the majority of the more than 1,000 convictions already handed down by prosecutors.

But the government has less than half the window to charge hundreds of rioters identified by online investigators but not yet arrested by the FBI before the statute of limitations expires in 2026.