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Paul Edward Kovacik

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Paul Edward Kovacik is a Rockport, Indiana man with later ties to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was 56 years old when his case came back around in 2024, working seasonal jobs and living the way a lot of working men his age live. Paycheck to paycheck, season to season. On January 6, 2021 he walked through the Capitol with his phone out and recorded what he saw. He was charged with misdemeanors for it. WHAT THE RECORD SHOWS FACT: Paul Kovacik is from Rockport, Indiana. Sources: American Gulag court summary, FOX59 Indianapolis. Later reporting described him as a Milwaukee, Wisconsin man. Sources: WISN, CBS News, Patch Milwaukee. FACT: He was arrested in June 2022 after a complaint was filed May 10, 2022. Source: DOJ Capitol Breach case record. FACT: The counts against him were all misdemeanors: entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. Source: American Gulag court summary. FACT: He pleaded guilty to one count, the misdemeanor of parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. Sources: American Gulag, CBS News. FACT: He was sentenced June 21, 2023 by U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton to 90 days incarceration followed by three years of probation, a $10 special assessment, and $500 restitution. Sources: American Gulag court summary, CBS News. THE MATTER AFTER CHARGE ONLY: Reporting states Kovacik traveled to Ireland and filed an asylum claim rather than report to serve his sentence, later withdrew the claim, returned to the United States, and was arrested at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in June 2024 on a charge of failing to surrender. Sources: CBS News, WISN, IrishCentral. That is a charge and only a charge. He is presumed innocent of it. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION on the disposition. WHAT THIS DOES NOT PROVE No felony. No weapon. No assault. He pleaded to walking through a building with a camera. Ninety days. Anyone stretching this record past that is not reading it. CASE RECORD Case number: 1:22-mj-100 in this archive. American Gulag records the case as 22-cr-00239. DATA NOTE: these two numbers conflict and the docket needs authentication. Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge: Reggie B. Walton Complaint filed: May 10, 2022 Arrested: June 19, 2022 Sentenced: June 21, 2023 This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.