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Jeffrey Newcomb

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Jeffrey Newcomb is an Ashland County, Ohio man from the small town of Polk, a hands-on builder whose case is one of the clearest examples of charges that were never proven and never will be. FACT: Newcomb was not arrested until October 2024, nearly four years after January 6, 2021. He was charged by criminal complaint with felony counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers and obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder, plus misdemeanors. Charges are charges: Jeffrey Newcomb never went to trial, never entered a plea deal, and was never convicted of anything. DOCUMENTED INFERENCE: court papers describe a large custom metal-framed sign Newcomb fabricated himself and hauled to D.C., whatever else is said about that day, building a 13-foot rolling steel sign is real fabrication skill. FACT: On January 22, 2025, following President Trump's January 20 clemency proclamation, the case against Jeffrey Newcomb was dismissed in full. He went home to Polk, Ohio with a clean resolution, no conviction, case closed. CASE RECORD, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Criminal complaint filed 2024; arrested 10/2024; dismissed 1/22/2025 per presidential proclamation. Sources linked on this profile. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.

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