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Isaac Sturgeon
Pardoned January 6 defendant
Isaac Sturgeon is a Dillon, Montana landscaper who built his own business in Beaverhead County, took his case all the way to trial, and walked out the other side with a full pardon. FACT: Isaac Sturgeon ran his own landscaping business out of Dillon, Montana. (Bozeman Daily Chronicle) FACT: When COVID shut the world down in March 2020, he was stranded overseas in Morocco. U.S. Senator Steve Daines helped bring him home, saying he was so glad to have helped Isaac return to the U.S. (Bozeman Daily Chronicle) FACT: Rather than take a plea, Isaac Sturgeon pleaded not guilty to every count and made the government prove its case at trial. (court record) FACT: In May 2023 a jury convicted him on seven counts from January 6, including assaulting or resisting officers, and Judge Royce Lamberth sentenced him to six years in prison, three years of supervised release, and $2,000 restitution. (KTVH, Daily Montanan) FACT: On January 20, 2025, President Trump pardoned Isaac Sturgeon. (KTVH) From a Montana landscaping crew to a federal jury trial to six years, to a presidential pardon. That is the whole arc, receipts attached. CASE RECORD Defendant: Isaac Steve Sturgeon Case: 1:21-cr-91, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Docket: arrested 3/6/21 at JFK airport, arraigned 5/5/21, convicted at trial May 2023, sentenced to 6 years, pardoned 1/20/25 This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.
The case file
On the record
- Case number
- 1:21-cr-91
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- Disposition
- Sturgeon was arrested at JFK airport in New York on 3/6/21. He made his initial appearance on 3/15. Arraigned on 5/5 and pleaded not guilty to counts 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and 8 of the indictment. Status conference set for 8/5/21 at 10 am.
Charges
- Obstruction of an Official Proceeding and Aiding and Abetting; Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers; Civil Disorder; Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Engaging in Physical Violence in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Obstructing, or Impeding Passage Through or Within, the Grounds or Any of the Capitol Buildings: Engaging in an Act of Physical Violence in the Grounds or Any of the Capitol Buildings
Press & news
- https://www.ktvh.com/news/montana-man-sentenced-to-years-in-prison-for-assaulting-d-c-police-on-jan-6 →
- https://dailymontanan.com/briefs/montana-man-sentenced-to-six-years-in-prison-for-jan-6-assault-on-officer/ →
- https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/montana-man-charged-in-capitol-riot-was-brought-back-to-country-by-daines-when-covid/article_12f3af64-bf32-548a-9a86-b1a3f64c224d.html →
- https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/sturgeon-isaac-steve →
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Connection to United States v. Nichols
Isaac Sturgeon appears in the record of United States v. Nichols. The full case — timeline, people, documents — is public and free.
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