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Frederick Breitfelder

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Frederick Breitfelder is a Harrison, Ohio man, a 60-year-old from the Cincinnati area, whose January 6 case holds one of the shortest lifespans in the entire J6 docket: arrested four days before the change of administration, dismissed with prejudice a week later. Start with the bottom line (FACT): Frederick Breitfelder was never convicted of anything related to January 6. He never entered a plea, never went to trial, never spent a day under a sentence. The timeline (FACT, DOJ announcement and Cincinnati coverage): the FBI arrested Breitfelder on January 16, 2025, more than four years after January 6, 2021, and just four days before Inauguration Day. The complaint alleged felony counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers and obstruction during a civil disorder, based on video the government said showed him at a barricade and swinging an axe handle toward an officer's hand. Those were allegations in a complaint. They were never tested, never proven, and never adjudicated, and this archive states charges as charges, nothing more. On January 20, 2025, President Trump's proclamation directed the dismissal of all pending January 6 prosecutions (FACT). Days later, a federal judge in Washington dismissed the case against Frederick Breitfelder with prejudice, meaning it can never be refiled (FACT, Fox19 Cincinnati, January 24, 2025). Four days of exposure, zero convictions, case closed forever. That is the complete court record of Frederick Breitfelder of Harrison, Ohio. CASE RECORD - Charged by criminal complaint, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia - Arrested: January 16, 2025 (initial appearance, Southern District of Ohio) - Charges: felony assault/civil-disorder counts and related misdemeanors, allegations only, never adjudicated - Resolution: dismissed WITH PREJUDICE, January 2025, pursuant to the January 20, 2025 proclamation This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.