Public January 6 profile · ready to claim

Lynnwood Nester

Pardoned January 6 defendant

Documented editorial-use image

Lynnwood Nester is an archery store employee from Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, a small Cumberland County borough, who was found guilty at a bench trial in March 2024 for entering the Capitol on January 6, 2021, on a case built entirely of misdemeanor-level charges. Look closely at what he was charged with, because none of it is a felony: entering and remaining in a restricted building, disorderly conduct in a restricted building, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading. Court records describe Nester entering the Capitol at roughly 2:40 p.m. and leaving through the same door about ten and a half minutes later. No allegation he assaulted anyone. No allegation he carried a weapon. No allegation he damaged property. Nester was associated with Free PA, a Pennsylvania political advocacy group, according to reporting on his case, one of three Central Pennsylvania residents charged over their actions that day. He fought the case rather than pleading it out, and a federal judge found him guilty following trial in March 2024. That's a real conviction, and this record does not soften it. The government's own sentencing memo, filed July 2024, describes him plainly: a working man, an employee of an archery store back home in Pennsylvania, with prosecutors recommending 12 months' incarceration, $500 in restitution, and a fine. Whether the judge followed that recommendation has not been confirmed in sources reviewed for this page, and that final number is marked NEEDS AUTHENTICATION below rather than assumed. Ten and a half minutes inside a building, no violence, no weapon. President Trump's January 20, 2025 clemency proclamation covered convictions tied to January 6 nationwide, reaching misdemeanor-only cases like this one. Whether Nester was specifically named in coverage of that pardon has not been confirmed here. Lynnwood Nester has not claimed this profile. If he wants his own account added, or wants to correct anything above, that costs nothing. CASE RECORD: Case No. 1:22-cr-00183 (TSC), U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Dillsburg, Pennsylvania (Cumberland County). Charges: Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building or Grounds; Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building. Found guilty following bench trial, March 2024. Occupation: archery store employee, per DOJ sentencing memorandum filed July 12, 2024. Associated with Free PA per Fox43 reporting. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: final sentence imposed and clemency status not confirmed in sources reviewed. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.