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Mitchell Paul Vukich
Pardoned January 6 defendant
Verified profile photographMitchell Paul Vukich is a lab analyst from New Brighton, Pennsylvania, and one of the lightest January 6 cases on record. Here is the record, plain. FACT: Prosecutors themselves said the evidence showed Vukich was not involved in any violence on January 6. None. FACT: The core of his case was a camera catching him and a friend picking up loose papers off the floor of an abandoned Capitol hallway. He told the FBI about it himself before they came looking. He was arrested alongside a second Beaver County man, Nicholas Perretta, who caught the same 30-day sentence. (Law & Crime; The Hiu) FACT: He was charged with one misdemeanor. Parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building, 40 U.S.C. Section 5104(e)(2)(G). No assault. No destruction. Nothing more. FACT: He pleaded guilty September 15, 2021. He was sentenced January 5, 2022, to 30 days, $500 restitution, and a $10 assessment. He served it and went home to Beaver County, western Pennsylvania. FACT: Vukich works today as a lab analyst at Microbac Laboratories in western Pennsylvania. (LinkedIn, his own public professional profile) FACT: On January 20, 2025, Mitchell Vukich received a full pardon under the presidential clemency proclamation. WHERE THINGS STAND: One misdemeanor. Thirty days. Full pardon. Back at work. That is the entire federal record on Mitchell Paul Vukich of New Brighton, Pennsylvania. No violence, no cover-up, no more to the story than what is written here. CASE RECORD Case No. 1:21-cr-00539-TSC, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Arrested June 23, 2021. Guilty plea September 15, 2021. Sentenced January 5, 2022. Pardoned January 20, 2025. Vukich never disputed what happened. He told the FBI himself, before agents came looking, and the government credited that at sentencing. That is the difference between this file and the felony files in this archive. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.
The case file
On the record
- Case number
- 1:21-cr-00539-TSC
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- Judge
- Tanya S. Chutkan
- Disposition
- Arrested June 23, 2021. Criminal information filed August 25, 2021. Pleaded guilty September 15, 2021 to one misdemeanor count under 40 U.S.C. § 5104(e)(2)(G). Sentenced January 5, 2022 to 30 days’ incarceration, $500 restitution, and a $10 special assessment. Granted a full pardon under the January 20, 2025 proclamation.
- Arrested
- June 23, 2021
- Plea
- September 15, 2021
- Sentenced
- January 5, 2022
Charges
- Knowingly Entering or Remaining in any Restricted Building or Grounds Without Lawful Authority
- Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds
- Theft of Government Money, Property or Records
- Disorderly Conduct on Capitol Grounds
- Parading, Demonstrating or Picketing in a Capitol Building
Sentence
30 days' incarceration; $500 restitution; $10 special assessment
Press & news
- https://americangulag.org/mitchell-paul-vukich/ →
- https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-siege/this-isnt-bill-and-teds-excellent-adventure-judge-punishes-pa-men-who-gathered-papers-from-abandoned-capitol-hallway-on-jan-6-with-time-behind-bars/ →
- https://thehiu.com/mitchell-vukich-nicholas-perretta-get-30-days-on-january-6/ →
- https://www.courthousenews.com/pair-of-pennsylvanians-sentenced-to-month-in-prison-for-storming-capitol/ →
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchell-vukich-ba6243161 →
- https://www.wesa.fm/courts-justice/2021-06-23/three-more-western-pennsylvanians-charged-in-jan-6-attack-on-the-u-s-capitol →
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Connection to United States v. Nichols
Mitchell Paul Vukich appears in the record of United States v. Nichols through 4 shared documents on file below. The full case — timeline, people, documents — is public and free.
Walk the whole case →Evidence on file
4 documents on file
Court1 document
Court orders, rulings, transcripts, and docket entries.
Govt response2 documents
Responses from DC DOC, the U.S. Marshals, and federal agencies.
order · Jan 20, 2025
January 20, 2025 January 6 Clemency Proclamation
Presidential proclamation commuting the sentences of fourteen named January 6 defendants to time served and granting full, complete, and unconditional pardons to the other covered convicted defendants. Person-specific status must be determined from the proclamation’s two separate clemency provisions.
Readarticle · Jun 23, 2021
Mitchell Paul Vukich federal complaint and arrest record
DOJ archive entry and contemporaneous reporting summarizing the June 2021 federal complaint. The five listed offenses remain complaint-stage allegations rather than five convictions.
ReadNews1 document
Press coverage.