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Michael Mackrell

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Michael Mackrell is a United States Marine Corps veteran, 42 years old, from Wellington, Ohio, a small Lorain County town most of the country has never heard of. Start there, because it matters. Before January 6, 2021, Michael Mackrell wore the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor and served this country in uniform. That service is on the record, reported by Stars and Stripes, the newspaper that has covered the United States military since before most of us were born. He was also a father who went to Washington that day with his son. Federal prosecutors charged him with a stack of counts, including civil disorder and five counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers. He pleaded guilty to one count of assaulting or impeding officers. The rest of the charges were dismissed as part of the deal. On March 18, 2024, he was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison, 12 months of supervised release, $2,000 in restitution, and a $100 special assessment. We are not going to pretend an assault charge is nothing. It is not nothing. A federal judge weighed it and handed down a sentence, and Michael Mackrell served it. But a Marine veteran and father from a small Ohio town who did wrong on one day does not stop being a Marine veteran and a father, and the record does not erase either fact just because the other one exists. On January 20, 2025, Michael Mackrell received a full presidential pardon. THE RECORD Name: Michael Mackrell Hometown: Wellington, Ohio Military service: U.S. Marine Corps veteran Plea: Guilty to one count of Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers Sentence: 27 months incarceration; 12 months supervised release; $2,000 restitution; $100 assessment Clemency: Full pardon, January 20, 2025 Sources: Federal charging document; Stars and Stripes; WKYC Cleveland What this does not prove: it does not undo the count he pleaded guilty to. What it does prove: a Marine veteran served his country before he ever went to the Capitol, served his sentence after, and received a full pardon from the President of the United States. This is the record. Same country he wore the uniform for. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.