Jeffrey Scott Smith Jr., 35, is facing up to 40 years in prison after a jury found him guilty this week of a civil rights violation involving sexual assault, top Justice officials said.

A 12-year veteran of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, officer Jeff Smith had no idea what awaited him when he and his riot unit raced to the Capitol on Jan. 6. "They were just told, 'Get ...

Jeffrey Scott Smith Jr., 35, is facing up to 40 years in prison after a jury found him guilty this week of a civil rights violation involving sexual assault, top Justice officials said.

The jury on Monday awarded $380,000 in punitive damages and $60,000 in compensatory damages to Erin Smith, the widow of D.C. police officer Jeffrey Smith, in her civil lawsuit against David Walls ...

A second police officer who responded to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol has committed suicide, the acting chief of Metropolitan Police Department told lawmakers Tuesday.

A former police officer convicted of sexually assaulting a woman during his first solo shift will now spend decades in prison, federal prosecutors said. Jeffrey Scott Smith, ... Smith, 35, will ...

The suicide of a Washington, DC police officer nine days after he was attacked during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot has been deemed a line-of-duty death, a report said.

A Washington, DC, police officer who responded to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot committed suicide in the days after the siege, the acting chief of the Metropolitan Police Department told members of Congr… ...

Jeffrey Scott Smith Jr., 35, is facing up to 40 years in prison after a jury found him guilty this week of a civil rights violation involving sexual assault, top Justice officials said.

A former Oklahoma police officer convicted in the sexual assault of a woman during a traffic stop will become the first to face a heftier penalty under the 2022 reauthorization of the Violence ...

The Justice Department says Jeffrey Scott Smith Jr., a former Oklahoma police officer convicted in the sexual assault of a woman during a traffic stop, will become the first to face a heftier ...