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Jonathan Joseph Copeland
Pardoned January 6 defendant
Documented editorial-use imageJonathan Joseph Copeland of Lima, Ohio. His case ran longer than most — arrested in August 2022, tried in 2024, and free by the pardon of January 2025. FACT: Copeland was arrested by the FBI in Fort Shawnee, Ohio on August 25, 2022 (DOJ). FACT: In May 2024 a jury found him guilty of eight counts — six felonies and two misdemeanors — tied to pushing a large metal Trump sign frame into a police line outside the Capitol (Hometown Stations / DOJ). FACT: He was sentenced to 71 months, 36 months of supervised release, and $2,000 restitution (DOJ). FACT: He was pardoned under the January 20, 2025 presidential clemency proclamation. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: A GiveSendGo campaign titled January 6th Jonathan Joseph Copeland J6 Defender has raised support for him at givesendgo.com/G9ER1; we have not verified who administers it. The case record: No. 1:22-mj-195 (complaint), U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Complaint filed 8/24/2022; arrested 8/25/2022. Convicted at trial May 2024 of civil disorder, assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers, and related counts. Sentenced to 71 months. Pardoned January 20, 2025. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.
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On the record
- Case number
- 1:22-mj-195
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- Disposition
- Complaint filed 8/24/22. Arrested 8/25/22.
- Arrested
- August 25, 2022
Press & news
- https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/michigan-and-tennessee-men-arrested-assault-law-enforcement-during-jan-6-capitol-breach →
- https://www.givesendgo.com/G9ER1 →
- https://www.hometownstations.com/news/jonathan-copeland-found-guilty-of-eight-charges-for-january-6th-riot-at-capitol/article_24ce7644-0d86-11ef-babd-cfcd2001cfac.html →
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