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Benjamen Scott Burlew
Pardoned January 6 defendant
Benjamen Scott Burlew is from Miami, Oklahoma. FACT: He was arrested on August 19, 2021, and made his initial appearance the next day (DOJ; KFOR; The Hill). FACT: He later pleaded guilty to a felony count of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers, entering his plea before Judge Randolph D. Moss (DOJ). FACT: On January 20, 2025, the clemency proclamation covered his case. Beyond the court file and the wire coverage of his arrest, very little about Burlew himself, his work, his family, his life in Ottawa County, ever made the papers. If that story exists, this page is where it belongs. The case record: Case 1:21-mj-501, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Charges, per the DOJ record: Assault in Special Maritime and Territorial Jurisdiction; Act of Physical Violence on Grounds. The docket, as recorded: Arrested 8/19. Initial appearance held 8/20. Indicted 10/27. Later pleaded guilty to assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers, per the DOJ release. On January 20, 2025, President Trump granted clemency covering the January 6 prosecutions. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.
The case file
On the record
- Case number
- 1:21-mj-501
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- Disposition
- Arrested 8/19. Initial appearance held 8/20. Indicted 10/27.
Charges
- Assault in Special Maritime and Territorial Jurisdiction
- Act of Physical Violence on Grounds
Press & news
- https://kfor.com/news/oklahoma-man-charged-in-assault-on-ap-photographer-during-capitol-riot/ →
- https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/569214-man-charged-in-jan-6-assault-of-news-photographer/ →
- https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/burlew-benjamin-scott →
- https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/oklahoma-man-arrested-assault-media-during-jan-6-capitol-breach →
- https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/oklahoma-man-pleads-guilty-assaulting-law-enforcement-during-jan-6-capitol-breach →
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Connection to United States v. Nichols
Benjamen Scott Burlew appears in the record of United States v. Nichols. The full case — timeline, people, documents — is public and free.
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