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Felicia Konold

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Felicia Konold is an Arizona woman whose January 6 case was prosecuted in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Public records identify her with the Tucson area; this archive does not publish a private address. No verified alias was established in the reviewed court record. ## Case identity and chronology Konold was prosecuted in United States v. Kuehne et al., No. 1:21-cr-00160-TJK, before U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly. She was arrested in Arizona on February 11, 2021 and was initially released under court-imposed conditions. The docket records an initial not-guilty plea, followed by later superseding charges. A first superseding indictment filed January 12, 2022 charged Konold with conspiracy; obstruction of an official proceeding and aiding and abetting; obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder and aiding and abetting; and two restricted-building or grounds counts carrying dangerous-weapon allegations. Those were accusation-stage allegations, not findings of guilt on every count. The government sentencing memorandum later summarized the restricted-grounds counts without repeating the weapon enhancement language; the archive preserves both source formulations rather than silently merging them. On November 1, 2023, Konold pleaded guilty to Count Three: obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder and aiding and abetting, under 18 U.S.C. §§ 231(a)(3) and 2. Her written plea agreement says the agreement was contingent on Cory Konold entering a guilty plea; it also says the government would request dismissal of the remaining indictment counts at sentencing. Konold signed that she was pleading guilty because she was guilty of the admitted offense. The agreement required $2,000 in restitution and identified Nicholas D. Smith as her attorney and Conor Mulroe as the prosecutor signing the agreement. Judge Kelly sentenced Konold on January 24, 2024. The signed judgment records 45 days of imprisonment, 24 months of supervised release, 90 days of home detention with location monitoring during supervision, a $100 assessment and $2,000 restitution. It directed her to surrender as notified by Probation or Pretrial Services no earlier than April 1, 2024 and dismissed all remaining counts on the United States’ motion. President Donald Trump granted a full pardon effective January 20, 2025 through Proclamation 10887. The DOJ Office of the Pardon Attorney’s public certificate-recipient list contains the exact entry “KONOLD, FELICIA.” The pardon changed the legal status of the federal conviction; it did not erase the underlying filings or turn accusation-stage allegations into judicial findings. ## What prosecutors alleged and argued The complaint affidavit and superseding indictment attribute a series of allegations to federal investigators and prosecutors. They alleged that Konold traveled to Washington with her brother Cory, encountered members of the Kansas City Proud Boys group, crossed police barriers, entered the Capitol, and participated near barriers and police lines. These descriptions are government allegations except where a fact was later admitted in the plea record. At sentencing, prosecutors argued that Konold and her brother joined a group including William Chrestman, Christopher Kuehne, Louis Colon and Ryan Ashlock; that Konold encouraged the crowd and used her body and a barrier against a police line; and that her conduct warranted a custodial sentence. The government requested six months in custody, three years of supervised release, $2,000 restitution and a $100 assessment for Konold. That was an advocacy position, not the sentence Judge Kelly ultimately imposed. ## Plea facts, defense position and personal statements The legally established conviction is the single civil-disorder and aiding-and-abetting count Konold admitted. In the signed Rule 11 statement of offense, she adopted the stipulated factual basis as true and accurate. Those admitted plea facts are distinguished from broader accusation-stage allegations. The signed judgment records dismissal of all remaining counts on the United States’ motion; the archive does not describe them as convictions. Defense counsel’s January 17, 2024 memorandum said Konold had made “exceptionally poor decisions” on January 6, was remorseful, and intended to apologize. It asked Judge Kelly to follow the Probation Office’s recommendation of time served, emphasizing her responsibility for two children, employment, mental-health and traumatic-brain-injury evidence submitted in mitigation, early cooperation with investigators, limited criminal history, and sentencing comparisons. Those are defense representations and mitigation arguments; they are not independent medical or judicial findings. After the pardon, Konold gave an on-camera interview to KOLD/13 News. She said she was shocked by the pardon, did not regret being present at the Capitol, and described the prosecution and its effects on her life in strongly critical terms. She also alleged harsh confinement and pregnancy-related deprivation. Those statements are preserved as her firsthand account and allegations, not as independently adjudicated findings. ## Custody, release and judicial action The available record supports arrest on February 11, 2021 and filing of release-order and appearance-bond papers on February 26. The public mirror of ECF 37 and 37-1 confirms the filing and marked bond obligations to appear and surrender if sentenced, but many individualized fields are blank or not legible, so it does not establish every release restriction. The signed judgment directed surrender as notified by Probation or Pretrial Services no earlier than April 1, 2024. A complete detention ledger and Bureau of Prisons release record remain uncaptured, so the archive does not infer exact custody dates beyond the documented arrest and imposed term. Judge Kelly’s adjudicated actions reflected here are acceptance of the guilty plea and imposition of sentence. The government’s requested six-month term and the defense/Probation request for time served remained competing recommendations. ## Connected record The complaint, release/bond packet, first superseding indictment, docket, plea agreement, signed statement of offense, government sentencing memorandum, defense sentencing memorandum, signed judgment, contemporaneous sentencing report, post-pardon interview, and clemency proclamation are linked below. Related people include Cory Konold, William Chrestman, Christopher Kuehne, Louis Enrique Colon and Ryan Keith Ashlock. A relationship link means the source names or concerns that person; it does not establish group membership or guilt beyond the source’s attributed claim. ## Corrections, disputes and remaining gaps This profile corrects the older archive entry that stopped in 2021 and collapsed multiple accusation-stage counts into a single charge string. The structured charge field now records the offense of conviction; superseding-indictment allegations remain separately described and sourced. The statement of offense and signed judgment are now captured. Still missing are a separate dismissal docket entry, sentencing transcript, complete custody and Bureau of Prisons release record, and an individual pardon certificate. No court-authenticated public statement from Konold apart from the plea materials was captured. The KOLD interview is a public firsthand statement but not a court finding. ## Visual status The displayed visual is a face-free archive identity card labeled “Portrait Needed.” It is not a photograph of Felicia Konold. Identifiable news and court images were located but not copied because identity verification and a documented lawful-reuse basis were not both established. A truthful, provenance-cleared portrait remains an open evidence need. Sources were reviewed and captured on July 26, 2026. PDF fingerprints and sizes are retained in the linked document records so later captures can be checked for duplicate or changed files.