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Dean Harshman

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Dean Harshman is a Warren County man from Waynesville, Ohio, a small town on the Little Miami between Dayton and Cincinnati. Dean Harshman was 36 years old when the charges came. FACT, per WVXU public radio. He was charged in July 2023. That is two and a half years after January 6, 2021. He was not hiding. He was living in Waynesville, Ohio, and he was arraigned in federal court in Cincinnati. FACT, per WVXU. Court filings say he recorded himself on his own phone and posted it. A man filming his own day is not a man hiding a crime. THEIR ACCOUNT: On video that day he said, "This is the stuff they ain't gonna show you on TV." FACT, that is his quote from the FBI affidavit, per WVXU. THE LEGAL FIGHT Complaint filed July 24, 2023. Arrested July 31, 2023. FACT, per the DOJ record. Charged with one felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding and four misdemeanors. CHARGE ONLY. Presumed innocent. No conviction is recorded in this archive for Dean Harshman. Reporting in January 2025 confirmed Dean Harshman had been arrested and charged but had not gone to trial. FACT, per WCPO. On January 20, 2025, President Trump granted clemency covering the January 6 prosecutions and directed the dismissal of pending indictments. FACT, per the White House proclamation. Local 12 in Cincinnati afterward published an interview with Dean Harshman reflecting on January 6 following the pardon. FACT that the interview was published. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION on the docket entry dismissing his case. THE CASE RECORD Case 23-mj-00178, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Complaint filed 7/24/2023. Arrested 7/31/2023. Social handles are listed here only when the person publishes them. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.