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Christopher Warnagiris
Pardoned January 6 defendant
Christopher Warnagiris is a career United States Marine. FACT: He enlisted in 2002 and rose to the rank of major, serving at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia with the Marine Air-Ground Task Force Staff Training Program (NPR; Marine Corps Times; Military.com). He was the first active-duty service member charged in connection with January 6. After his 2021 arrest, the Marine Corps moved to separate him from the service (Military.com). The legal fight, plainly: Warnagiris was indicted on nine counts. The most serious were felonies, civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding, and assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers, alongside misdemeanor counts. He pleaded not guilty to all of them. He waived a jury and went to a bench trial before Senior U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman on April 1-5, 2024; the court held the verdict pending the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on the obstruction statute in Fischer v. United States (Courthouse News; WUSA9). NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: the final verdict and any sentence are not reflected in the public records reviewed here. On January 20, 2025, President Trump granted clemency to January 6 defendants. CASE RECORD Case No. 1:21-cr-382, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Arrested May 13, 2021. Indicted June 2, 2021; superseding indictments December 1, 2021 and March 22, 2023. Bench trial April 1-5, 2024. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.
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On the record
- Case number
- 1:21-cr-382
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- Disposition
- Arrested 5/13 and initial appearance held the same afternoon. Indicted 6/2/2021. Arraigned 6/28 and pleaded not guilty to counts 1-9. Superseding indictment filed 12/1/2021.
Charges
- Assaulting, Resisting or Impeding Certain Officers or Employees
- Obstruction of Law Enforcement During Civil Disorder
- Obstruction of Justice/Congress
- Knowingly Entering or Remaining in any Restricted Building or Grounds without Lawful Authority
- Violent Entry and Disorderly Conduct on Capitol Grounds
Press & news
- https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/06/21/after-capitol-riot-indictment-marine-major-remains-his-quantico-job.html →
- https://www.courthousenews.com/trial-underway-for-first-active-duty-service-member-charged-in-capitol-riot/ →
- https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13/996602525/active-duty-marine-corps-major-charged-in-capitol-riot →
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