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Nathan Earl Hughes

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Nathan Earl Hughes is a Fayetteville, Arkansas man in his mid-thirties whose January 6 case ran longer than most, all the way to a December 2024 sentencing. FACT: The FBI arrested Hughes on August 30, 2023. FACT: He pleaded guilty to two felonies, assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and civil disorder, plus a misdemeanor count of impeding passage through Capitol grounds. FACT: U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols sentenced him December 16, 2024, to 25 months in prison, 36 months of supervised release, and a $5,000 fine. FACT: His sentencing came five weeks before President Trump's January 20, 2025 clemency proclamation covering January 6 offenses. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: Ryan's team has not independently confirmed whether Nathan Hughes personally received a pardon or commutation under that proclamation, and flags his current custody and legal status for follow-up. A guilty plea, a sentence, and a pardon proclamation that landed right behind him. This is the record on Nathan Hughes as it stands, and it is not the last word. CASE RECORD: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Case number not yet listed in the DOJ defendant index; disposition confirmed via DOJ press release and Arkansas news coverage of his December 2024 sentencing. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.