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Dennis Wayne Barnes

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Dennis Wayne Barnes is a 70-year-old Austin, Texas man whose January 6 case is now closed, dismissed by the court. FACT: Barnes was arrested November 13, 2024 in Austin, Texas, in connection with the events of January 6, 2021, making him one of the later arrests in the entire January 6 prosecution effort, nearly four years after the fact. FACT: Barnes was charged with Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building, Disorderly Conduct, and Parading in a Capitol Building. FACT: On January 22, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted the government's motion to dismiss the case against Dennis Barnes with prejudice. With prejudice means the case cannot be refiled. It is over. RYAN STATEMENT: A 70-year-old man got arrested almost four years after January 6, and less than three months later the government dropped the whole case. Ask yourself what that says about how thin some of these late-wave cases really were. The record does not lie. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: Local Austin coverage of the arrest is limited to the initial charging report. No trial record exists because none was ever held. This archive will update this profile if Dennis Barnes or his family come forward with more of his story, his trade, his service, his family, so readers see the man behind the docket number. DOCUMENTED INFERENCE: Being arrested at 70, after nearly four years, and having the case dismissed within months is an unusual pattern even inside this archive. It suggests a case built on identification alone, without the kind of evidence that survives closer scrutiny. This is the record. Not the mugshot. Not a stranger's assumption about who a 70-year-old man is. Read it. Share it. Send receipts, evidence, witnesses if you know Dennis Barnes. Put eyes on the record. CASE RECORD: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Arrested November 13, 2024. Case dismissed with prejudice January 22, 2025. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.