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Joseph Charles Valentour

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Joseph Charles Valentour is a 66 year old man from Centerville, Ohio, in the Dayton suburbs. Sixty six years old. Arrested January 3, 2025. Case gone by February 4, 2025. Thirty two days. THE MAN FACT: Joseph Charles Valentour is from Centerville, Ohio, and was 66 at the time of his arrest. Source: U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. FACT: He was arrested in Dayton, Ohio on January 3, 2025, just shy of four years after January 6, 2021. A man in his mid sixties from a Dayton suburb, arrested in the last three weeks of an administration, and cleared inside of five weeks. THE CASE CHARGE ONLY: Valentour was charged with Obstruction of Law Enforcement During Civil Disorder; Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers; 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; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building; and an Act of Physical Violence in the Capitol Grounds or Buildings. Charges are charges. He is presumed innocent of every one of them. FACT: On February 4, 2025, the court granted the government's motion to dismiss the case with prejudice. FACT: Joseph Charles Valentour was never tried. He was never convicted. He was never sentenced. With prejudice means the government cannot bring it back. WHAT THIS DOES NOT PROVE Every description of his conduct on this record comes from a government affidavit filed to support an arrest. No court ever weighed it, because the case was dismissed with prejudice before any trial. CASE RECORD U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Arrested January 3, 2025 in Dayton, Ohio. Dismissed with prejudice February 4, 2025. No trial. No conviction. No sentence. Charging document: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.276047/gov.uscourts.dcd.276047.1.1_1.pdf DOJ press release: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/two-men-ohio-and-colorado-arrested-assaulting-law-enforcement-and-other-offenses-during NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: the exact D.C. case number for this docket, and his trade or occupation. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.