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Daniel Van Oaks, Jr.

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Daniel Van Oaks Jr. is a 54-year-old man from Alpine, Utah. Before the headlines, before the nickname reporters gave him, he was a neighbor in a small Utah Valley town. Federal prosecutors charged him by criminal complaint on October 30, 2024, nearly four years after January 6, 2021, with obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder, assaulting or impeding officers, and several restricted-grounds counts. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: the underlying video and eyewitness claims cited in the complaint have not been independently verified on this record, and no trial or guilty plea followed. Here is what the record shows, plain. Daniel Van Oaks Jr. was never convicted of anything. He was charged, and the case moved through the system for less than three months before it ended. On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed a proclamation of clemency covering the January 6 defendants. On January 24, 2025, the court granted the government's motion to dismiss Daniel Van Oaks Jr.'s case with prejudice. That means it is over, for good. The government cannot bring it back. This is the record. A man arrested nearly four years after the fact, case closed with prejudice less than three months later, no trial, no conviction, no admission. Ryan Nichols knows what that clock feels like. Charged. Jailed. Sentenced. Pardoned January 20, 2025. He built RealRyanNichols.com so men like Daniel Van Oaks Jr. are not left with a mugshot as the only public record of who they are. Send receipts. Send the rest of the story. Put eyes on the record. CASE RECORD Name: Daniel Van Oaks Jr. Location: Alpine, Utah Age: 54 Arrest date: October 30, 2024 Charges: Obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder; assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers; entering or remaining in a restricted building; disorderly conduct; taking or attempting to take property Case status: No plea entered on record. Case dismissed with prejudice January 24, 2025 following the January 20, 2025 presidential clemency proclamation. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.