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Douglas Sweet

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Douglas Sweet is a handyman from Mathews County, Virginia, and one of the January 6 defendants pardoned in 2025. FACT: Sweet worked the shipyards near his home until a job injury in the early 1990s ended that career. He's made his living as a handyman around town ever since. When he was arrested, neighbors told reporters that even those who condemned January 6 still stood by the man they know (Sources: CBS News, 13News Now). FACT: Sweet traveled to Washington on January 6, 2021, saying he came because he believed the President had asked patriots to show up. The FBI found no evidence he engaged in any violent or disruptive conduct. He pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor count, parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building (Sources: WTVR, WTKR, DOJ). FACT: In November 2021 he was sentenced to 36 months probation, one month of that as home detention, $500 restitution, and 60 hours of community service. No jail time beyond the home detention (Source: DOJ, NPR Jan. 6 archive). WHERE THINGS STAND: On January 20, 2025, President Trump's clemency proclamation covered January 6 offenses, including Sweet's. The court record is below, kept honest. But so is the fuller picture: a small-town handyman, a former shipyard worker, the kind of neighbor a whole town vouches for. CASE RECORD Case No. 1:21-cr-41, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Charge: parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building (misdemeanor). Arrested: January 13, 2021. Pleaded guilty: August 10, 2021. Sentenced: November 9, 2021, to 36 months probation (one month home detention), $500 restitution, 60 hours community service. Clemency: full pardon, January 20, 2025. WHAT THIS DOES NOT PROVE: the FBI's own investigation found no evidence of violence or disruption by Sweet. He was never charged with assault, a weapon, or destruction of property. The government's own record, not a supporter's claim, says so. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.