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Jacob Gavin Hiles

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Jacob Gavin Hiles is a Virginia Beach, Virginia man — a fishing charter boat captain — whose January 6 case was covered by the full presidential pardon on January 20, 2025. He runs charter fishing out of coastal Virginia. He is a working-water waterman by trade, the kind of man who books early-morning trips and knows the tides better than the news. That is who Jacob Hiles was before the FBI knocked, and it is who he still is. Case record: Jacob Gavin Hiles turned himself in to the FBI on January 19, 2021, and was arrested that day per the DOJ record. He was charged in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in case 1:21-cr-155. On September 9, 2021 he entered a plea agreement and pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. On December 6, 2021, he was sentenced to 24 months of probation, 60 hours of community service, and $500 restitution. FACT: Jacob Hiles pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor count. The remaining counts were dismissed. That is the entire criminal conviction. THEIR ACCOUNT: Jacob Hiles later sued CNN for defamation, alleging the network's coverage falsely tied him to more serious conduct than the record supports. Court coverage tracks the filing and its later dismissal. Those are his firsthand claims and the court's rulings — preserved so readers can weigh both. On January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump granted a full pardon covering the January 6 prosecutions. Jacob Gavin Hiles of Virginia Beach was among those covered. Case: 1:21-cr-155, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Virginia coverage from 13NewsNow, WAVY, WTVR, and Newsweek is linked in this archive. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.