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Alexander Cain Poplin

January 6 defendant

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Alexander Cain Poplin is an active-duty U.S. Army soldier from Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, arrested in a January 6 case that never went to trial. FACT: Poplin, 31 at arrest, was serving on active duty at Schofield Barracks near Honolulu when he was arrested in September 2024, more than three and a half years after January 6. He kept serving his country that whole time, through a felony complaint hanging over him. (Military.com; Army Times; DOJ) FACT: A federal complaint alleged he struck a police officer with a flagpole during the Capitol breach, and that he posted about the day afterward on social media. Those were allegations in a complaint, never proven, never tried in front of a jury. (DOJ; reporting on the charging documents) FACT: He was charged with felony counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon and civil disorder, plus three misdemeanors. (DOJ) FACT: His case was pending when the January 20, 2025 clemency proclamation directed dismissal of pending January 6 prosecutions. Poplin was never convicted of anything. (DOJ Office of the Pardon Attorney; Honolulu Civil Beat) WHERE THINGS STAND: Charged, never tried, never convicted. Case dismissed under the clemency order. Poplin remained on active duty throughout the entire three and a half years the complaint was pending. CASE RECORD Charged by criminal complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, September 2024. Arrested at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. Case dismissed following the January 20, 2025 clemency proclamation. Because the case was dismissed before trial, none of the government's allegations against Poplin were tested in front of a jury or a judge. His active-duty status throughout the pending case means the Army itself made no final finding against him either. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.