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Melanie Archer
Pardoned January 6 defendant
Documented editorial-use imageMelanie Archer is a woman from Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, in the Shaler area outside Pittsburgh, who made a choice a lot of January 6 defendants did not. When she learned the FBI wanted to talk to her, she turned herself in rather than waiting to get arrested. She was formally charged in March 2022, with an information filed March 28, 2022, and pleaded guilty October 24, 2022, to conduct at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. On January 20, 2025, President Trump's proclamation granted her a full pardon covering the January 6 prosecutions. Case 1:22-cr-102, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.
The case file
On the record
- Case number
- 1:22-cr-102
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- Disposition
- Initially filed as Case # 1:22-mj-59. Complaint filed 3/14/22. Arrested 3/18/22. Information filed 3/28/22. Pleaded guilty 10/24/22.
- Arrested
- March 18, 2022
- Plea
- October 24, 2022
Press & news
- https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2022/10/11/pittsburgh-capitol-riot-suspects-melanie-archer-shaler-jordan-bonenberger-western-pa-fbi/stories/202210110079 →
- https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/pittsburgh-woman-turns-herself-in-to-fbi-for-alleged-role-in-capitol-riot/ →
- https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/archer-melanie →
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Connection to United States v. Nichols
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