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Joshua Curtis Coker

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Joshua Curtis Coker is a 45-year-old man from Oregon, Ohio, a working town on Lake Erie just east of Toledo. The FBI did not find Joshua Coker because a witness named him. They found him by sweeping cell phones and running faces through software. Read how it worked, because it is in the court file. HOW THEY FOUND HIM FACT: In late 2021, the FBI used a search warrant to pull cell phone location data for devices that had been inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and specifically filtered for numbers carrying Toledo, Ohio area codes. (Source: federal court records, summarized in the NPR January 6 case database.) FACT: That geographic phone sweep pointed at Joshua Coker. The bureau then used facial recognition technology to identify him among the crowd. (Source: same court records; WTOL Toledo.) FACT: Surveillance footage places him entering at 2:13 p.m. and exiting at 2:54 p.m. Forty-one minutes. A geofence warrant and a face-matching algorithm. That is how a man in Oregon, Ohio got a federal case number. Every American ought to read that paragraph twice. THE MAN AND THE TOWN FACT: Joshua Curtis Coker was 45 and living in Oregon, Ohio, Lucas County, when he was charged. (Source: NPR January 6 case database, compiled from federal court records.) FACT: He is one of 64 Ohioans charged in connection with January 6. (Source: Ohio statewide news roundups.) THE CHARGES AND THE PLEA CHARGE ONLY, AS FILED: Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Entering and Remaining in the Gallery of Congress; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building; Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building. FACT: He was not charged with assaulting an officer. He was not charged with destroying property. He was not charged with conspiracy. FACT: A complaint was filed July 10, 2023, and he was arrested July 12, 2023, two and a half years after the event. FACT: He pleaded guilty to ONE count, Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds. FACT: On May 24, 2024, he was sentenced to 36 months of probation, 8 months of home detention, a $25 special assessment, and $500 in restitution. No prison. THE PARDON FACT: Joshua Curtis Coker received a FULL PARDON on January 20, 2025. THE RECORD Case 23-mj-159, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Charging and plea documents on file at CourtListener. DOJ defendant page archived before justice.gov removed the Capitol Breach list. Oregon, Lucas County, Ohio. Phone sweep. Face match. Probation. Pardon. That is the whole arc, and the receipts are linked above. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.