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Ricky Christopher Willden

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Ricky Christopher Willden is a man from Oakhurst, California, a small mountain town in Madera County at the gate of Yosemite. He is one of the hardest files in this archive to write, and this archive does not write around hard files. He pleaded guilty. He served two years. He came home. That is the whole arc, and every piece of it is in the court record. WHO HE IS FACT: Ricky Christopher Willden is from Oakhurst, in Madera County, California. FOX40 Sacramento and Law and Crime identified him as an Oakhurst and Fresno area man. FACT: Press coverage described him as a self proclaimed member of the Proud Boys. That is how he was characterized in reporting, and this archive records it as reporting, not as a court finding. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: trade, occupation, military or first responder service, and family. This archive has none of it confirmed. If you know this man, help us put the rest of him on the page. THE LEGAL FIGHT FACT: Indicted June 23, 2021. Arrested June 30, 2021. Arraigned July 22, 2021 and pleaded not guilty to all counts. Superseding indictment filed December 1, 2021. FACT: The counts included Civil Disorder; Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers; Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Engaging in Physical Violence in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building; Act of Physical Violence in the Capitol Grounds or Buildings; and Parading, Demonstrating or Picketing in a Capitol Building. FACT: He pleaded guilty April 7, 2022. He admitted using a chemical spray toward officers. The Justice Department announced the plea and the sentence. FACT: Sentenced August 5, 2022 to two years in prison, three years of supervised release, and $2,000 restitution. FACT: He served the sentence the court imposed. FACT: On January 20, 2025, President Trump granted clemency covering the January 6 prosecutions. WHAT THIS DOES NOT PROVE It does not prove anything beyond the counts he admitted. He was never convicted of anything a jury heard, and no allegation outside that plea belongs on this page. WHAT IT DOES PROVE Ricky Christopher Willden faced the charge, took the plea, and did the time. He did not run. He did not blame a lawyer. He answered for it and then he went back to Oakhurst. A man who serves his sentence has paid what the court said he owed, and this country used to believe that meant something. CASE RECORD Name: Ricky Christopher Willden Hometown: Oakhurst, Madera County, California Case number: 1:21-cr-423 Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Arrest date: June 30, 2021 Sentenced: August 5, 2022 DOJ record: justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/willden-ricky-c This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.