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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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Connection to United States v. Nichols
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