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Lance Michael Ligocki

January 6 defendant

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Lance Michael Ligocki is a father from Oakwood, Illinois, a small town outside Danville in Vermilion County, right up against the Indiana line. He was 35 when the federal case landed. FACT, per ABC 7 Chicago. Downstate Illinois. Farm country. The part of the state Chicago forgets exists. Everybody who saw him that day remembers the suit. Lance Ligocki wore a full American flag suit to Washington on January 6, 2021. Stars and stripes head to toe. He was not hiding from anybody. THE LEGAL FIGHT That suit is also why the FBI eventually found him. Lance Ligocki was named in a sealed indictment in early 2024 and arrested in March 2024. Three years and two months after January 6. FACT. The government alleged he swung a pole carrying a Trump flag and struck officers on a Capitol terrace. CHARGE ONLY. Those were allegations in a charging document, not findings by a jury. Lance Ligocki pleaded not guilty at his video arraignment. FACT, per ABC 7 Chicago. He never got a trial. On January 20, 2025, President Trump granted clemency covering the January 6 prosecutions. The final docket entry in Lance Michael Ligocki's case is NEEDS AUTHENTICATION. THE CASE RECORD Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Sealed indictment returned early 2024. Arrested March 2024 in Vermilion County, Illinois. Felony counts including assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers. Case number and final disposition: NEEDS AUTHENTICATION. If you hold the docket, send it. WHAT THIS DOES NOT PROVE Lance Michael Ligocki was never convicted. He pleaded not guilty and the case never reached a verdict. He was not accused of carrying a firearm. He was not accused of carrying a weapon into the building. The object in the allegation was a flagpole. Charge is not conviction. Allegation is not fact. This is the record. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.