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Daniel Warmus

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Daniel Warmus is a Western New York man from Alden, outside Buffalo, and one of the first Jan. 6 misdemeanor defendants sent to jail. FACT: He walked into the Capitol Rotunda on January 6 wearing a hoodie and carrying no weapon. He stayed, he left, and he later pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. No violence, no assault. (Buffalo News) FACT: Local press called him the first Western New Yorker sent to jail over that day, and the case drew national attention as one of the earliest jail sentences for a January 6 misdemeanor. He was sentenced to 45 days and served it. (WIVB; Buffalo News) FACT: A federal judge later imposed a supervised-release condition addressing contact with government employees, tied to reporting on his conduct after the Capitol case. He went on to sue three local governments, Hamburg, Blasdell, and Wyoming County, claiming civil-rights violations. (Buffalo News) NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: The outcome of that civil litigation was not confirmed for this profile. FACT: On January 20, 2025, President Trump granted clemency to roughly 1,500 January 6 defendants, covering cases like his. (DOJ) WHERE THINGS STAND: One misdemeanor, 45 days served, a pardon, and a separate civil-rights lawsuit that played out afterward in Western New York courts. CASE RECORD Case No. 1:21-cr-417, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Arrested May 18, 2021. Initial appearance May 24, 2021. Charged by information June 21, 2021. Pleaded guilty May 23, 2022. Sentenced September 27, 2022, to 45 days' incarceration, 24 months' probation, 60 hours' community service, $500 restitution. Pardoned January 20, 2025. Warmus later became one of a smaller group of January 6 defendants whose post-case conduct generated its own local court record, separate from and after the Capitol case itself. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.