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Robert Coppotelli

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Robert Coppotelli is a heavy equipment man out of Toms River, New Jersey. Family business — Coppotelli Heavy Equipment Sales & Services. Excavators, loaders, the machines that build everything else. He was 27 when the FBI came knocking, and he had his name and the shop's phone number stitched right onto his work jacket. That jacket is how they found him. Which tells you something. THE MAN AND THE TRADE Robert Coppotelli is from Toms River, Ocean County, New Jersey. He worked in the family heavy equipment sales and service business — the company name and phone number were embroidered on the work coat he wore that day. (FACT — Philadelphia Inquirer; WUSA9; NJ1015; Toms River Patch) DOCUMENTED INFERENCE: A man wearing his own name, his company, and his phone number in public was not hiding. Federal investigators identified him off a tip in July 2021 because he was advertising who he was. Whatever else is true about that day, he was not there in a mask. He is the 39th New Jersey resident charged in connection with January 6. (FACT — NJ1015) WHAT HE WAS AND WAS NOT ACCUSED OF Prosecutors said Coppotelli entered through the Senate Wing door roughly ten minutes after the doors were already open, and that he was inside less than fifteen minutes. (FACT — Philadelphia Inquirer) Unlike many charged in this docket, Robert Coppotelli was not accused of attacking officers and not accused of destroying property. (FACT — Philadelphia Inquirer, explicitly reported) That distinction matters and it belongs in his record. THE LEGAL FIGHT He was arrested in February 2024 — more than three years after January 6, when most people assumed the arrests were over. He admitted to one count of disorderly and disruptive conduct at the Capitol and one count of parading, demonstrating, or picketing. Both misdemeanors. He faced a maximum of one year. (FACT — Philadelphia Inquirer; WUSA9) On January 20, 2025, the presidential clemency action covering offenses relating to the events at or near the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 resolved the outstanding January 6 docket, including cases still awaiting sentencing. (FACT) Charges are charges. Misdemeanors are misdemeanors. Robert Coppotelli of Toms River ran equipment for a living, wore his name on his chest, and took two petty offenses. That is the whole record. CASE RECORD Name: Robert Coppotelli Hometown: Toms River, New Jersey Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Arrested: February 2024 Plea: two misdemeanor counts — disorderly and disruptive conduct; parading, demonstrating, or picketing Clemency: January 20, 2025 Case number: not currently on file in this archive — if you have the docket number, help us fix it. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.