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Quinn Keen

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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**Quinn Keen** is a Manteno, Illinois man — Kankakee County, corn and rail and about 9,000 people an hour south of Chicago. He was in his early thirties on January 6, 2021. **His story.** Keen is small-town Illinois, not Washington. Manteno is the kind of village where the high school football scores are the news. He had no public profile of any kind before this case, and the FBI did not identify him from a database or a network of informants — his case began with an anonymous tip (FACT — ABC7 Chicago). He was on the Lower West Terrace at the police line, and later in the Rotunda. The government charged him with felony assault on officers over thrown objects — water from a bottle, the empty bottle, and a metal travel mug. No firearm. No knife. No stick. No club. Prosecutors never alleged Quinn Keen came to Washington armed. In February 2024 he pleaded guilty rather than putting the government through a trial (FACT — Chicago Sun-Times, Bloomberg Law). He took the felony on the chin and did not try to talk his way out of what the cameras showed. **Where the fight stands.** Keen was sentenced to 24 months and 24 months of supervised release. The presidential clemency proclamation of January 20, 2025 covered January 6 convictions including felony assault convictions, and the J6 pardon closed out the federal case. Two years of a Kankakee County man''s life for objects thrown in a crowd on a single afternoon. Quinn Keen is home in Illinois and the federal case is over. **Case record.** United States District Court for the District of Columbia, case No. 23-cr-00206. Complaint filed April 6, 2023. Arrested April 6, 2023 by the FBI in Chicago. Pleaded guilty February 2024 to assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers (felony). Sentenced to 24 months incarceration and 24 months supervised release. DOJ record: justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/keen-quinn. Search terms people use to find him: Quinn Keen January 6, Manteno Illinois January 6 defendant, Kankakee County J6 pardon, pardoned January 6 Illinois. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.