There will be no prison time for the Champion Township man who testified before the House select committee hearing into the January 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Stephen Ayres, 39, was sentenced Thursday to two years probation and was ordered to pay $500 in restitution for his part in the incursion that saw charges being filed by more than 800 people. Ayres was also sentenced to 100 hours of community service.

In June, Ayres pleaded guilty to entering the temporary residence of the president and disorderly conduct in the Capitol.

Prosecutors had been asking for a sixty-day prison sentence.

During a July hearing by the July 6th Committee, Ayres testified that he no longer believed that the election was stolen and that he had not intended on going to the Capitol until Donald Trump told the crowd to "head on down, basically following what he said."

According to an affidavit, Ayres was one of the many people who unlawfully entered the U.S. Capitol building and had posted a video of himself inside the Capitol building as well as in a hotel room to Facebook later that day.

On January 10, the FBI reviewed the video, which had Ayres and two other people describing what they had seen at the Capitol that day.

The video was also posted to YouTube, titled "It was all ANTIFA breaking into the Capitol 1-6-2021.”

The group claimed that ANTIFA was the organization that led the attacks on the Capitol building and that the police let everyone walk in.

Ayres then said that the “fake news” would not accurately report on what happened at the Capitol but that they had “seen it all” and they “got footage all over the place on the Capitol” and that they would “probably share some of it here and there.”

According to the court filing, they also said that the purpose of that day was to "expose Pence as a traitor" and “the American people are not going to let this slide, especially after today.”

Once law enforcement reviewed surveillance video in the Capitol, they saw what appears to be Ayres joining the large crowd in the Senate lobby.

The FBI was able to identify Ayres through a witness that saw another picture on Ayres's social media of him and a group of people at the Lincoln Memorial wearing the same clothes.

In a letter to the judge considering his case, Ayres expressed regret for his actions. A memorandum from his own attorney requested a sentence of probation and no jail time.

His co-defendant, Perna of Sharon, died by suicide prior to his sentencing after pleading guilty of felony obstruction of Congress.