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Benjamin Cole
Pardoned January 6 defendant
Documented editorial-use imageBenjamin Cole is a Leesburg man out of Lake County, Florida. He was 38 when federal agents arrested him in August 2022, more than a year and a half after January 6, 2021. Central Florida. Working man's county. He was arrested in Louisville and made his first court appearance in the Western District of Kentucky before the case moved to Washington. [FACT - DOJ press release, Aug. 24, 2022] THE LEGAL FIGHT Benjamin Cole was charged in a five defendant case with one felony count, interfering with a law enforcement officer during a civil disorder, plus misdemeanor counts of entering a restricted building and disorderly conduct. The government alleged an affiliation with a Florida group. All of it was allegation. [CHARGE ONLY - DOJ press release and criminal complaint, Aug. 2022; Spectrum News 13; News4Jax; Leesburg News] No conviction of Benjamin Cole is reflected in the DOJ record this archive preserved. He was presumed innocent, and this archive says nothing the docket does not say. Any reporting on the group's activities is [NEEDS AUTHENTICATION] as it applies to him personally. On January 20, 2025, President Trump granted clemency covering the January 6 prosecutions. [FACT] THE CASE RECORD Case 1:22-mj-184, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Docket as recorded: complaint filed 8/16/22, arrested 8/24/22. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.
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- Case number
- 1:22-mj-184
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- Disposition
- Complaint filed 8/16/22. Arrested 8/24/22.
- Arrested
- August 24, 2022
Press & news
- https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/cole-benjamin →
- https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/five-florida-men-arrested-charges-actions-during-jan-6-capitol-breach →
- https://www.leesburg-news.com/2022/08/25/two-lake-county-men-charged-with-taking-part-in-capitol-attack/ →
- https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/08/25/palm-coast-man-4-other-florida-men-arrested-on-charges-related-to-january-6-capitol-breach/ →
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