Mooney-Rondon, who owns a medical billing company, admitted that she helped a man who took the laptop, giving him gloves so he would not leave fingerprints behind. 'I assisted him a little bit,' Rafael Rondon said, 'and that was probably stupid of me.' He later told the FBI that he wished he had taken a photo of a rioter on the Senate dais, because 'that s- was f-ing hilarious.'īefore his sentencing, Rafael Rondon said that he would “never” engage in that type of behavior and that he was acting very immaturely. Rafael Rondon was previously sentenced to 14 months of incarceration after he pleaded guilty in federal court in New York to possession of an unregistered firearm after the FBI found an unregistered sawed-off shotgun when it searched the Rondons' home.

“No offense.” She said she was giving them a “significant break.” Maryann Mooney-Rondon, left, and Rafael Rondon. “I just think that they were acting very stupidly,” Cobb said. “I’m not suggesting that you two are stupid or idiots,” she said, but she said they engaged in “juvenile” behavior.

Both will be on probation for five years.Ĭobb said that it was a “difficult” case and that neither of the defendants were criminal masterminds.

She described the sentence as “jail but at home” and said they would be confined to home 24/7. District Judge Jia Cobb sentenced Rondon to 18 months of home incarceration and Mooney-Rondon to 12 months of home incarceration. Before their identification, online sleuths had dubbed the pair “AirheadLady” and “AirheadBoy” because they emerged from the Capitol wearing stolen emergency escape hoods, which the duo subsequently admitted stealing.

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