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Madison Pettit

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Madison Pettit is from Swanton, Ohio, and was 19 when her January 6 case closed with probation; her record today carries a presidential pardon. FACT (DOJ; NPR court-record review): an FBI tip led agents to trace Pettit's cellphone to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and to place her in security footage walking with her boyfriend at the time, co-defendant Gabriel Burress. She admitted entering the building and said she had felt pepper spray in the air once inside. FACT: she was arrested August 19, 2021, and pleaded guilty January 10, 2022, to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. FACT: she was sentenced March 31, 2022, to 18 months of probation, including 45 days of home detention, 60 hours of community service, and $500 restitution. Her case is also tracked by the January 6 advocacy site American Gulag. DOCUMENTED INFERENCE: that site's account of her case has not been independently verified by this archive beyond what DOJ's own record confirms. Madison Pettit was 19 years old on January 6, one of the youngest defendants in this archive, and her case closed the way most misdemeanor cases from that day closed: a guilty plea, probation, community service, and restitution, no prison time. She is from Swanton, a small town outside Toledo, and that hometown matters as much as the charge does. WHERE THINGS STAND: a young Ohio woman, a single misdemeanor, and probation completed. On January 20, 2025, President Trump granted clemency covering the January 6 prosecutions, and it reached Madison Pettit's case. CASE RECORD Case 1:21-cr-744, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Arrested 8/19/21. Pleaded guilty 1/10/22. Sentenced 3/31/22: 18 months probation, 45 days home detention, 60 hours community service, $500 restitution. Clemency 1/20/2025. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.