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Dustin Ray Williams

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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**Dustin Ray Williams** is a working man from Brady, Texas, dead center of the state, the town that calls itself the Heart of Texas. He was 32 on January 6, 2021, and he was wearing his employer''s shirt. **His story.** That detail says more about Dustin Ray Williams than any headline. When the FBI went looking, they found him because he had gone to Washington in a T-shirt printed with his company''s name and phone number on the back, and because he livestreamed himself on his own Facebook account (FACT, FBI affidavit reported by WFAA, KSAT and FOX 26 Houston). Nothing about that is the behavior of a man who thought he was doing something criminal. He went in his work shirt, under his own name, with his face on camera. He is from a McCulloch County town of about 5,000 people, and he worked for a living, the shirt proves it. He was at the West Front of the Capitol around 1 p.m. Prosecutors charged him with obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder plus four misdemeanors. It took the government two and a half years to come get him. Dustin Ray Williams was not hiding for those two and a half years. He was in Texas, working, with the same phone number on the back of his shirt. **Where the fight stands.** Williams was sentenced to 22 months, three years of supervised release and $2,000 in restitution (FACT, DOJ press release). The presidential clemency proclamation of January 20, 2025 covered January 6 convictions, and the J6 pardon closed out his federal case. A tradesman from Brady, Texas gave up years over a single afternoon, and the federal case against him is finished. **Case record.** United States District Court for the District of Columbia, case No. 23-mj-00186. Complaint filed July 28, 2023. Arrested August 1, 2023 in Dallas, Texas. Charged with obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder (felony) plus entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly or disruptive conduct in a Capitol building, and violent conduct in a Capitol building. Sentenced to 22 months incarceration, 36 months supervised release, $2,000 restitution. DOJ record: justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/williams-dustin-r. (NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: exact plea and sentencing dates should be confirmed against the docket.) Search terms people use to find him: Dustin Ray Williams January 6, Brady Texas January 6 defendant, McCulloch County J6 pardon, pardoned January 6 Texas. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.