Let’s Take a Long Look at the Treasonous Criminals of January 6
Being pardoned by a lunatic determined to destroy the nation doesn't reverse their criminality and treason
Did you know that the treasonous criminals from January 6 marched on Washington today to celebrate the pardon they received from Traitor Trump?
It was more of a whine fest than a true march, as many of the marchers complained that the insidious pardon they received wasn’t enough.
Enrique Tarrio, one of the original organizers of the insurrection, said at the march, “The Justice Department needs to take action.”1 He’s lucky his 22 year sentence was erased by the orange gas bag, and he’s complaining?
The march began at 11:45 a.m. today, beginning at the same Ellipse where the mad clown gave a speech urging insurrectionists to overthrow the government, then continued along the path taken by the insurrectionists on their march to claw their way into the Capitol Building and try to kill Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi.
Thanks to more than a hundred brave officers, their attempt to murder government officials was thwarted, but not without loss of life.
Capitol Police Officers Howard Liebengood and Jeffrey Smith, and Metropolitan Police Officers Kyle DeFreytag, Gunther Hashida, and Ernesto Brito all died by taking their own life after the attack on the Capitol.
Brian Sicknick, a U.S. Capitol Police officer, died of a stroke shortly after being attacked by the insurrectionists.
Kevin D. Greeson died from a heart attack.
Rosanne Boyland died after being crushed by stampeding rioters.
Benjamin Philips died from a stroke.
The cause célèbre for their march today is a woman I won’t honor by name who was shot by police while trying to break into the Capitol building. They’re marching today in her “honor.”
The State of the Union this year can be summed up by one word: Broken.
On January 20, 2025, the first day of his illicit takeover of the Oval Office, Trump issued a blanket pardon to everyone charged in connection with the January 6 attack.
In all, approximately 1500 people were let off the hook because Trump also granted amnesty to anyone involved in the attack who had not yet been charged.2
The insurrectionists have support within the most conservative segments of the U.S. military, many of whom find it easy these days to find common cause with those at the very top of the food booze chain, such as Pete Hegseth.
Take, for example, the former Oath Keeper and Chief Master Sergeant in the Air Force who wrote, “I am a true patriot and have many connections to spread the Oath Keeper [sic] mission.”3
The Oath Keepers, founded by insurrectionist Stewart Rhodes, was an extremist group of mostly former military personnel who were active in the insurrection. Rhodes plans on rebooting the organization (it fell apart after he was convicted of seditious conspiracy).
According to Alexander Lowie, writing for the Conversation:4
The Anti-Defamation League estimated that nearly 400 of the names were active law enforcement officers, and that over 100 were serving in the military.
It’s no surprise to longtime watchers of this regime that Hegseth had no trouble finding military officers eager to snatch a foreign dictator from sovereign territory.
The List
What follows are lists of most of the January 6 participants who were convicted of the most serious crimes. The fact that they’ve been pardoned by another insurrectionist doesn’t alter their criminality.
Scroll to the end to find those who have been run afoul of the law after the insurrection.
Note, the core list text and associated links are copied and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License from Wikipedia.5 I’ve left the original footnotes from the Wikipedia article(s) for reference, since they are not relative links and will take you to the source.
So it’s fair to call the remainder of this post an organization of existing information (with a bit of fact-checking), rather than my usual snark-filled original writing.
Some information is also collected from the DOJ site “proudly” (forgive the pun) announcing the pardons and clemencies.6
In some cases, I’ve added some comments. My comments are in bold italics.
I’ve reviewed this information carefully for accuracy, but if you find a boo-boo, feel free to let me know.
Organizers
Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys who had been serving a 22-year sentence for charges including seditious conspiracy.[17]
He organized today’s march and apparently remains a certifiable lunatic. At today’s march, he demanded reparations from the Justice Department.
Alan Hostetter, retired police chief, sentenced in December 2023 to 11 years in prison for conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. He drove to Washington with hatchets, knives, stun batons, pepper spray, and other gear for himself and others and used a bullhorn to encourage rioters to break the police line.[39][40]
He seems to be lying low for now.
Insurrectionists sentenced for attacking police officers
David Nicholas Dempsey, sentenced in August 2024 to 20 years in prison for stomping on police officers’ heads, using flagpoles and other objects to attack officers, and spraying bear spray into the gas mask of an officer. His prior criminal record included burglary, theft, and assault.[39][41]
One of the officers he attacked was Brian D. Sicknick, who suffered a series of strokes shortly after the pepper spray attacks and died. Dempsey is a murderer, but he’s free now.
Peter Schwartz, sentenced in May 2023 to 14 years to assaulting police officers with a chair and pepper spray. He boasted in a text message that he had “thrown the first chair at cops” and “started a riot”. He also had a record of prior violent offenses.[42][43][39]
Not to be confused with this Peter Schwartz:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Schwartz_(futurist) (Don’t hassle him! He’s probably nice!)
The insurrectionist Peter Schwartz man has a long arrest history.
Daniel Joseph “DJ” Rodriguez, sentenced in 2023 to 12.5 years in prison for conspiracy and obstruction of an official proceeding, obstruction of justice, and assaulting a law enforcement officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon. Rodriguez had shot Officer Michael Fanone, who had been dragged into the mob by another assailant and was lying face-down on the ground, twice with a stun gun held to his neck. Fanone had a heart attack and received other injuries during the attack.[44][42][39] Video footage also showed Rodriguez deploying a fire extinguisher and attacking other officers with a wooden pole.[44]
Christopher Joseph Quaglin, member of the Proud Boys, sentenced in May 2024 by a Trump-appointed judge to 12 years in prison for choking and tackling officer Michael Fanone to the ground, attacking other officers with metal bike racks, stolen police shields, and pepper spray.[39][45]
Quaglin is seeking $150 million in damages for being caught in the insurrection.
Thomas Webster, retired police officer, sentenced in 2022 to 10 years in prison for attacking an officer with a flagpole and tackling him.[42][46]
Webster has filed a petition asking a court to vacate his conviction.7
Christopher J. Worrell, a Proud Boy member, sentenced in 2024 to 10 years in prison for attacking police officers with pepper spray.[39]
Thomas Harlen Smith, sentenced in October 2023 to 9 years in prison for, among other violent actions, kicking an officer in the back and knocking him to the ground and hitting two officers in the head with the metal pole he threw at them.[39][47]
Smith, along with Sheldon Bray and other Mississippi insurrection convicts, is hailed as a hero among the white apartheid crowd in Mississippi.
They and four other insurrectionists held court in a Lafayette County chancery courtroom in Oxford, Mississippi in February 2025, where they beat their chests in front of about 50 people and extolled the virtues of depravity.8
Albuquerque Cosper Head, sentenced in October 2022 to seven years for dragging officer Fanone face-down down the West Terrace steps and attacking police in the entrance to the Lower West Terrace tunnel.[42][48]
Head screamed, “I got one!” as he dragged Fanone. He pleaded guilty. Per the sanewashing online journal Politico:9
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson described Head’s attack on Fanone as among the most chilling moments of violence on a dark day for the country.
Too bad he’s such a jerk. That’s a very cool name.
Kyle J. Young, pleaded guilty to a single charge and was sentenced in September 2022 to seven years for handing the stun gun to Rodriguez and grabbing Fanone’s hand when he tried to protect himself.[42][49]
Patrick McCaughey III, sentenced in April 2023 to 7.5 years for using a stolen police riot shield to crush officer Daniel Hodges in a doorframe at the entrance to the Lower West Terrace tunnel.[50][51]
Steven Cappuccio, sentenced in November 2023 to seven years for ripping off officer Hodges’s gas mask and striking him across the face with his own baton.[52][53]
Andrew Taake, sentenced in June 2024 to 6.5 years for attacking officers with bear spray and a metal whip. At the time of the Capitol attack, he was out on bond for soliciting a minor in 2016.[54] The bond was revoked in September 2021, and Houston authorities are looking to rearrest Taake.[55]
Shane Jenkins, sentenced in October 2023 to 84 months in prison, 36 months of supervised release, and payment of $5,165 in restitution. He broke a window with a tomahawk and threw a wooden desk drawer, a flagpole, a metal walking stick, and other objects at officers defending the West Tunnel entrance to the Capitol.[56] In an online meeting with lawyers he compared the January 6 rioters to “Israelites who were enslaved and then released by God from bondage in Egypt, only to roam for decades through the desert”. The lawyers are representing him and others in their effort to be paid restitution for their prosecutions and incarcerations.[57]
Rioters found guilty of and awaiting sentencing for attacking police officers
Edward J. Kelley, convicted on November 8, 2024, in federal court in Washington, D.C., of tackling a law enforcement officer from behind and throwing him to the ground and various acts of property damage inside the Capitol. His sentencing had been scheduled for April 7, 2025,[58] when he was pardoned on January 20, 2025.[59][60]
While awaiting trial in December 2022, Kelley had conspired to assassinate the law enforcement agents who had arrested him in May 2022 and those who had searched his home.[61] In November 2024, he was convicted in federal court in Tennessee of conspiring to murder FBI employees, soliciting a crime of violence, and threatening federal officials; the sentencing date was set for May 7, 2025.[59] In early February 2025, Kelley’s attorney filed a motion arguing that the pardon for the Capitol riot also covered the murder plot and asking for Kelley’s immediate release.[58] The judge rejected the argument, and, in July 2025, Kelley was sentenced to life in prison.[62]
Rioters who had awaited trial for attacking police officers
Daniel Ball had been awaiting trial when he was pardoned. He was accused of throwing a device that “flashed and exploded”, a wooden leg of a chair or table, and other objects at officers in the Lower West Terrace tunnel, and for damaging a shutter. Investigators searching his Florida residence as part of the case had found a firearm and ammunition, items he was not allowed to possess because of two prior felony convictions. He was served with the arrest warrant on a federal gun charge while still in custody and had been awaiting extradition to Florida.[63][64] However the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Tampa, after initially stating that clemency did not extend to the subsequent charges, ultimately followed an emerging pattern of the Department of Justice under Trump of excusing additional crimes committed outside the riot by filing a motion to drop the indictment; Ball’s case was dismissed on February 25, 2025.[65]
Edward Jacob “Jake” Lang. Was in prison for four years on an 11-count indictment, including assault charges for attacking officers with a baseball bat.[42][66][67][68] He is running for U.S. Senator from Florida in the Republican primary to be held in August 2026. On October 22, 2025, he said that, as senator: “I would deputize the Proud Boys and the January 6 Patriots to bounty hunt illegal immigrants.”[69]
Andrew Kyle Grigsby. Was in custody awaiting trial on five felony charges, including attacking officers with bear spray.[70][71]
David Paul Daniel. Had pleaded guilty for assaulting police officers and was in custody awaiting trial. After he was charged in November 2023, FBI and Mint Hill, N.C., police officers discovered images of Daniel sexually abusing two children under 12 during a search of his home. He is in custody in North Carolina on charges of production and possession of child pornography and pleaded not guilty.[70][72] Daniel has filed to dismiss or suppress these charges with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina[73] because thus far, the Justice Department has not pardoned him for additional crimes uncovered in the course of gathering evidence for the January 6 riot, as they have done for other rioters.[74]
Rioters arrested for entering a restricted area and property damage
Theodore Middendorf. Was awaiting trial for striking a window with a flagpole. In May 2024, he was sentenced to 19 years in prison in Illinois for committing “an act of sexual penetration” of a 7-year-old child.[70]
David Medina. Charged with a felony for obstructing an official proceeding, and charged with several misdemeanors. After breaking into the Capitol, he vandalized the nameplate over Nancy Pelosi’s office. Following his pardon, in October 2025, he rode in the motorcade of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem when she traveled to Portland, Oregon.[75]
Rioters sentenced for entering a restricted area
Matthew Huttle, was sentenced in November 2023 to six months in prison and a year of supervised release for entering the Capitol and multiple offices. Huttle had a prior criminal record which included a sentence of 2.5 years in prison for beating and injuring his 3-year-old son.[70] On January 26, 2025, Huttle was shot and killed while in possession of a firearm and resisting arrest during a traffic stop.[70][76]
Emily Hernandez. Pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 days in federal prison in 2022. She was seen holding Nancy Pelosi’s broken nameplate during the riot. Nine days after the pardon, she was sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing a woman and injuring her husband in a car crash on January 5, 2022. Hernandez, who was intoxicated, drove the wrong way on Interstate 44 in Missouri and crashed head-on into an oncoming vehicle.[77][78]
Reminder: Most of this text in these listings is derived from Wikipedia entries on the January 6 convictions, reproduced here under a Creative Commons license. I fact checked it, but that doesn’t guarantee no errors.
Commutations
Trump commuted the sentences of 14 individuals. Although their convictions remain on their criminal records, they became eligible for immediate release from prison, as their sentences were commuted to “time served.”[32]
Kelly Meggs, member of the Oath Keepers.
Kenneth Harrelson
Thomas Caldwell (pardoned on March 20, 2025)[79]
Roberto Minuta, member of the Oath Keepers.
Edward Vallejo
David Moerschel
Joseph Hackett
Zachary Rehl
Dominic Pezzola, member of the Proud Boys.
Organizers
Ethan Nordean, a leader of the Proud Boys.
Jeremy Bertino, former leader of the Proud Boys.
Joseph Biggs, a former organizer of the Proud Boys.
Stewart Rhodes, leader of the Oath Keepers, sentenced to 18 years for seditious conspiracy.[39][80][81]
Rhodes plans on an Oath Keeper reboot.10 The Oath Keepers were started when Rhodes freaked out over the confiscation of guns during Hurricane Katrina’s immediate aftermath. Greatly preferring a Purge post-disaster atmosphere, the group went hard right and eventually acquired 40,000 dues-paying members.
January 6 defendants involved in further crimes and incidents
Reminder: Most of this text in these listings is derived from Wikipedia entries on the January 6 convictions, reproduced here under a Creative Commons license. I fact checked it, but that doesn’t guarantee no errors.
Multiple January 6 defendants have been involved in additional crimes before or after being pardoned,[128] including homicide, burglary, theft, stalking, child pornography, sexual assault on minors, and driving under the influence.
Sedition Hunters, an online community of open-source intelligence investigators who identified hundreds of participants in the Capitol attack, has an incomplete database of rioters with post-January 6 arrests or convictions.[129]
Zachary Jordan Alam, 33, of Centreville, Virginia, was arrested on May 9, 2025, for burglarizing a home.[130][131] On November 7, 2024, Alam had been sentenced to eight years in prison, having been convicted of eight felonies and three misdemeanors for his actions in the Capitol attack, during which he smashed the glass door Ashli Babbitt attempted to climb through.[132] According to The Washington Post, Alam was the first Capitol rioter to be arrested after being pardoned. In October 2025, Alam was convicted of two felonies in connection with the home invasion.[133]
Daniel Ball, 38, of Homosassa, Florida, was re-arrested one day after being pardoned. Ball had been convicted of domestic violence battery by strangulation in June 2017, as well as battering and resisting law enforcement with violence in October 2021. In May 2023, Ball was arrested on felony charges in connection with the Capitol attack, during which he threw an explosive device.[134] Ball faced an additional weapons charge for illegal possession of a gun and ammunition as a convicted felon.[135][136][137][138]
John Banuelos, 40, was arrested on October 17, 2025, in Cicero, Illinois; he was wanted in Salt Lake County, Utah, on an October 1 warrant for aggravated kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault. Prosecutors accused Banuelos of firing a gun during the riot, though no one was injured; his case was dismissed following Trump’s blanket pardon.[139][140]
Bryan Betancur Battisti, 26, of Silver Spring, Maryland, pleaded guilty in D.C. Superior Court in September 2024 to two counts of contempt of an anti-stalking order on a D.C. activist. He was sentenced to six months in jail on each count with all but 30 days suspended, for a total of 60 days; he must also serve two years of supervised probation. Battisti had previously served four months in prison after pleading guilty to one misdemeanor count of entering and remaining in a restricted grounds in connection with the Capitol attack, during which he helped Isabella DeLuca pass out a table that was later broken up and used to assault police. At the time of the riot, Battisti was on GPS monitoring for a fourth-degree burglary case out of Montgomery County, Maryland; after the riot, he was ordered to serve a previously suspended 18-month sentence. Charging documents described Battisti as a self-professed white supremacist who desired to be a “lone-wolf killer“, having voiced support for the perpetrator of the Charlottesville car attack and expressing desire to run people over with a vehicle and kill people in a church.[141]
Jeremy Brown of Tampa, Florida, was sentenced in April 2023 to seven years and three months in prison after being convicted of weapons charges. While searching Brown’s home in Florida in 2021, federal agents discovered stolen grenades, an unregistered rifle, and a stolen classified document. In February 2025, the Justice Department concluded that Brown’s pardon also applied to his weapons conviction.[142][143]
Kyle Travis Colton, 36, of Citrus Heights, California, was indicted by a federal grand jury in February 2024 on a charge of receiving child pornography between July 2022 and December 2023. During the Capitol riot, Colton grabbed a flagpole a rioter was using to assault a Metropolitan Police Department officer, then gave it back to the rioter, who then fled into the crowd of rioters.[144] If convicted of the child pornography charge, Colton faces 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.[145][146][147] During trial, Colton unsuccessfully argued that the pardon should extend to his child pornography since it was discovered by a search during an investigation into his participation in January 6.[148] On July 15, 2025, Colton was convicted of one count of receiving child pornography; his sentencing is set for October 27, 2025.[149] On December 8, 2025, Colton was sentenced to 80 months in federal prison for his child pornography conviction.[150]
David Paul Daniel, 37, was indicted in October 2024 on federal charges of production of child pornography and possession of child pornography. Daniel also allegedly sexually assaulted a minor, made her shower with him, and took nude pictures of her between 2015 and 2019. Another person accused Daniel of similar facts.[151]
Emily Hernandez, 22, of Sullivan, Missouri, fatally struck 32-year-old Victoria Wilson and injured Wilson’s husband while driving under the influence down the wrong side of Interstate 44 in Franklin County, Missouri, in January 2022. Hernandez served 30 days in federal prison for her role in the Capitol riot, during which she was photographed holding the broken nameplate of then-House speaker Nancy Pelosi. On January 29, 2025, Hernandez was sentenced to 10 years in prison in connection with Wilson’s death.[152][153]
Brent John Holdridge, 59, of Arcata, California, was arrested for burglary and grand theft in May 2025 after allegedly stealing industrial copper wire valued at tens of thousands of dollars.[154]
Matthew Huttle, 42, of Hobart, Indiana, was fatally shot during a traffic stop in Rensselaer, Indiana, on January 26, 2025, less than a week after being pardoned. After being placed under arrest for being a habitual traffic violator, Huttle ran to the driver’s seat of his vehicle and retrieved a firearm, claiming that he was going to shoot himself. The Jasper County deputy involved in the shooting was later cleared of any wrongdoing.[155] At the time of his death, Huttle had at least 13 criminal convictions as well as a history of driving offenses, including a 2005 conviction for driving while intoxicated; his most recent case had been opened in May 2022. Huttle pleaded guilty to a battery case from Lake County, Indiana, in 2010, admitting to spanking his son “so hard that he left bruises all over the child’s backside”. He was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison and was released on May 12, 2013.[156] In August 2023, Huttle had accepted a plea agreement in his Capitol riot case, pleading guilty to a misdemeanor. In November 2023, he was sentenced to six months in federal prison followed by 12 months of supervised release. Huttle was released in July 2024.[157]
Andrew Paul Johnson, 44, was extradited from Tennessee to Florida after being arrested on multiple child sexual abuse charges. Johnson allegedly told a boy he was messaging on Discord that he would be awarded $10 million for his Capitol riot involvement and would leave the boy any remaining money in his will.[158]
Daryl Johnson, 52, of St. Ansgar, Iowa, was arrested and charged with invasion of privacy, a misdemeanor, after using his cell phone to secretly record women tanning in his father’s salon.[159] He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months in prison, also needing to pay nearly $4,000 in fines and register as a sex offender.[160] Johnson and his son Daniel had each pleaded guilty to a felony charge of civil disorder for their actions during the Capitol attack. Daryl Johnson posted a message on Facebook after the riot calling for “hangings on the front lawn of the capitol”.[161]
Riley Kasper, 26, of Pulaski, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty in December 2025 to a misdemeanor charge of theft. He was sentenced to pay $140 in restitution and $473 in other court costs. Kasper had pleaded guilty in September 2023 to a federal charge of assaulting an officer during the Capitol attack, having boasted on social media that “I pepper sprayed 3 cops” and “there is definitely something satisfying about pepper spraying cops in riot gear”. For the assault charge, Kasper was sentenced to 37 months in prison and two years of supervised release, as well as being ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution.[162][163]
Edward Kelley, 35, of Maryville, Tennessee, was convicted in November 2024 and sentenced to life in prison in July 2025 for conspiracy to murder federal employees, solicitation to commit a crime of violence, and influencing a federal official by threat. Earlier that month, Kelley had been convicted of three felonies: civil disorder, destruction of government property, and assaulting law enforcement.[164][165] While awaiting trial on these charges, Kelley developed a “kill list” of FBI agents and others who participated in the investigation. A co-defendant testified that he and Kelley planned to attack to the FBI field office in Knoxville, Tennessee, with car bombs and incendiary devices attached to drones, in addition to assassinating FBI employees in their homes and in public places. Kelley was recorded stating: “Every hit has to hurt. Every hit has to hurt.”
Christopher Moynihan, 34, was arrested in October 2025 and charged with threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries at an Economic Club of New York event in New York City.[166] According to a court filing by prosecutors, Moynihan wrote: “Hakeem Jeffries makes a speech in a few days in NYC I cannot allow this terrorist to live. Even if I am hated, he must be eliminated, I will kill him for the future.” Moynihan was one of the first rioters to breach police barricades and enter the Capitol grounds, and he rifled through a notebook on top of a senator’s desk during the attack. In August 2022, Moynihan was found guilty of obstructing an official proceeding, and he pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor charges. In February 2023, he was sentenced to 21 months in prison.[167]
Robert Keith Packer, 60, of Newport News, Virginia, was arrested in September 2025 and charged in connection with a dog attack that left four people injured. In January 2022, Packer, who had been photographed wearing a “Camp Auschwitz“ sweatshirt during the Capitol riot, pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. He was sentenced to 75 days in prison with a $500 fine for restitution.[168][169]
Andrew Quentin Taake, 36, of Houston, Texas, was charged with online solicitation of a minor following a 2016 incident in which he sent sexually explicit messages to an undercover law enforcement officer posing as a 15-year-old girl. During the Capitol attack, Taake used bear spray and a metal whip to assault officers. He was caught after bragging about the incident to a woman he met on an online dating app. Taake pleaded guilty in 2023, and in June 2024, he was sentenced to six years in prison.[170][171] Taake was credited with 1,306 days of time served and was required to register as a sex offender for 10 years.[172]
Reminder: Most of this text in these listings is derived from Wikipedia entries on the January 6 convictions, reproduced here under a Creative Commons license. I fact checked it, but that doesn’t guarantee no errors.
Taylor Taranto, 39, of Pasco, Washington, was convicted on May 20, 2025, of illegally carrying two firearms without a license, unlawfully possessing ammunition, and false information and hoaxes, all connected to a 2023 live streamed video in which he claimed that he was on a “one-way mission” to blow up the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Taranto was arrested the following day while live streaming near former president Barack Obama‘s house in Washington, D.C.[173] On October 29, two federal prosecutors, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, filed a sentencing memo, accurately reflecting the court record that Trump had posted Obama’s supposed address and that Taranto had reposted it. Hours later, they were put on administrative leave[174] and the memo was removed from the court record. This happened after Politico reporter Kyle Cheney pointed out that the memo said Taranto had been a January 6 rioter. The memo was immediately resubmitted by new two prosecutors, minus any references to Trump or to Taranto’s repost of what Trump said about Obama.[175] On October 30, U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols sentenced Taranto to 21 months in prison, which amounted to time served due to Taranto’s time in pretrial custody, plus 36 months of supervised release, and he ordered drug testing and a mental health assessment.[176] In early December, local police spotted Taranto near Representative Jamie Raskin’s home; Raskin increased his personal security, using a Capitol Police escort.[177]
Chance Anthony Uptmore, 25, of San Antonio, Texas, was convicted on April 11, 2022, of being an unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of a firearm; he faced up to 10 years in prison.[178] On July 26, 2022, Uptmore was sentenced to three months of house arrest and five years of probation.[179]
David Walls-Kaufman, 69, was ordered in June 2025 to pay $380,000 in punitive damages and $60,000 in compensatory damages to Erin Smith for assaulting her husband Jeffrey L. Smith during the Capitol attack.[180]
Daniel Edwin Wilson, 49, was ordered to return to prison to serve the remainder of his five-year sentence for separate firearm convictions after being erroneously released from custody. In June 2022, law enforcement executing a federal search warrant seized six firearms from Wilson’s home, which he was prohibited from possessing as a convicted felon.[181] On November 14, 2025, Trump granted Wilson a second pardon for his firearm convictions.[182]
Shane Jason Woods, also known as Shane Castleman, 44, of Auburn, Illinois, fatally struck 35-year-old Lauren Wegner and injured two other people while driving down the wrong side of Interstate 55 in Sangamon County, Illinois, in November 2022.[183] His blood alcohol content was more than twice the legal limit.[184] Woods was the 500th person arrested in connection with the Capitol attack, as well as the first to be charged with assaulting a member of the media.[185] During the riot, Woods tackled a female Capitol Police officer whom he outweighed by more than 100 pounds, as well as a Reuters cameraman.[186] On October 4, 2023, Woods was sentenced to 54 months in prison and 36 months of supervised release for his role in the Capitol attack.[187] On April 30, 2025, Woods was acquitted of first-degree murder in Wegner’s death; however he was convicted of aggravated driving under the influence and reckless homicide.[184] On August 19, 2025, Woods was sentenced to 17 years in prison for Wegner’s killing.[188]
Caroline Wren, a Republican fundraiser who co-organized Trump’s “Save America” rally on the day of the Capitol attack, did not attend a virtual hearing on July 9, 2025. U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks found her in civil contempt and ordered her to pay $2,000 a day until she responded to the subpoena. U.S. Capitol police officers had subpoenaed her in early 2024 seeking information for their lawsuit against Trump.[189]
Not included in the Wikipedia list
John Banuelos, who was charged for firing shots into the air and trespassing for climbing capitol scaffolding. After he was pardoned, he was accused of stabbing and killing a 19-year-old man. Last October (2025), police in Cicero, Illinois arrested him on a 2018 kidnapping and sexual assault charge.11
Nick Fuentes, who wasn’t charged but was there urging on the crowd with a bullhorn. Fuentes, who, according to The Texas Tribune, “often praises Adolf Hitler and has publicly fantasized about marrying a 16-year-old,” is a vocal anti-Semite who helped launch the latest Groyper Wars after being interviewed by professional sleazebag Tucker Carlson.12
Notes
An ambulance chaser named Mark McCloskey is trying to recruit more January 6 insurrectionists for lawsuits related to the attack.13 His fifteen minutes of fame came when he and his wife found themselves in a viral photograph with guns outside their home during a George Floyd murder protest.
A non-profit journalist collective known as Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) published more than 38,000 names of the original Oath Keepers. 14
The group Sedition Hunters, which the Justice Department relied on before it was taken over by a criminal (Pam Bondi), is still active:
NPR maintains a deep dive of the attacks, with a massive amount of video and stories related to the insurrection:
https://apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/
NPR also maintains a searchable database of more than 1500 people linked to the attack and under various degrees of criminal investigation:
https://apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/database.html
The state of California is now maintaining a page of Trump criminals more generally:
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/12/16/trumpcriminals/
The next time you see an obnoxious Wikepedia request for cash, maybe send them a few dollars. It’s an underrated resource.
For more on the Groyper Wars, here’s a bit of satire, which I need for my sanity:
Groyper War III: Behind The Lines
Background: You may have heard that Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin is none other than, possibly, nay, probably, a groyper. If you don’t know what that means, I recommend catching up with Allison Gill here (Trigger warning: You’ll be entering the strange world of extreme online gamers and incels.)
Footnotes
Mineiro, Megan, Karoun Demirjian, Luke Broadwater, Michael Gold, Madeleine Ngo, Victor Mather, Kellen Browning, et al. “Live Updates: Trump Assails Jan. 6 Inquiry in Speech to House Republicans.” The New York Times, January 6, 2026. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/06/us/trump-news?smid=url-share#3be5d2e6-fc22-557f-b918-e10dd8fcd3ed.
Matza, Max. “Proud Boys and Oath Keepers among over 1,500 Capitol Riot Defendants Pardoned by Trump.” Bbc.com. BBC News, January 21, 2025. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y7l47xrpko.
ADL. “The Oath Keepers Data Leak: Unmasking Extremism in Public Life,” 2022. https://www.adl.org/resources/report/oath-keepers-data-leak-unmasking-extremism-public-life.
Lowie, Alexander. “The ‘Sacred’ Pledge That Will Power the Relaunch of Far-Right Militia Oath Keepers.” Edited by Alfonso Serrano, December 29, 2025. https://doi.org/10.64628/aai.etruaksrd.
Wikipedia.org. “Pardon of January 6 United States Capitol Attack Defendants - Wikipedia,” 2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon_of_January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack_defendants#Presidential_clemency.
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ADL, ibid
Great piece... you really uncovered every stone. Interesting to read through and see where they are now. Dirtbags every one.
AND THIS: "The State of the Union this year can be summed up by one word: Broken."
We truly are.
How hateful do you have to be to think you should get reparations for a violent insurrection. The criminals that were pardoned by the felon don’t deserve to be walking free, looking for their next victim.