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Eric Chase Torrens

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Eric Chase Torrens is a young husband and father out of Gallatin, Tennessee, up in Sumner County, and he was twenty eight years old when federal agents knocked on his door. FACT: Torrens is from Gallatin, Tennessee. FACT: he was arrested on February 1, 2021, less than four weeks after January 6. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: secondary biography sites list him as married with one child and previously living in the Tampa, Florida area. This archive has not confirmed those details from a primary source and prints them labeled rather than as fact. Now here is the part the government itself put in writing. FACT: in its own sentencing memorandum, the United States wrote that Eric Chase Torrens voluntarily spoke to FBI agents after his arrest, was forthcoming with the agents, and pleaded guilty early in the case. That is the prosecution saying it. Not his lawyer. The people trying to put him in jail wrote down that he told them the truth. FACT: he was inside the Capitol Crypt for roughly ten minutes and then walked back out. THEIR ACCOUNT: Torrens later told agents the whole day felt like a trap for Trump supporters. THE LEGAL FIGHT FACT: indicted March 10, 2021. Arraigned March 12, 2021, where he pleaded not guilty to all counts. FACT: plea agreement entered August 19. He pleaded guilty to one count, parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building, 40 U.S.C. 5104(e)(2)(G). Every other count was dismissed. FACT: the government recommended two weeks of incarceration. FACT: on October 29 the court gave him no jail at all. Thirty six months of probation with 90 days of home confinement and $500 restitution. FACT: on January 20, 2025, President Trump granted clemency covering the January 6 prosecutions. WHAT THIS DOES NOT PROVE: it does not erase the conviction he pleaded to. WHAT IT DOES PROVE: a twenty eight year old from Gallatin, Tennessee talked to the FBI without a fight, took responsibility early, and a federal court declined to lock him up even when prosecutors asked. CASE RECORD Case 1:21-cr-204 (defendant 002), U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Judge Beryl A. Howell. DOJ Capitol Breach page: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/torrens-eric-chase Docket as recorded: Indicted on 3/10 and arraigned on 3/12. Torrens pleaded not guilty to all counts. Plea agreement entered 8/19 and Torrens pleaded guilty to count 5 of the indictment. Sentenced on 10/29 to 36 months probation with 90 days of home confinement; $500 restitution. This profile is preserved from the DOJ Capitol Breach case list this site mirrored after the government scrubbed it from justice.gov. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.