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Robert Sanford, Jr.

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Robert Sanford, Jr. is a retired firefighter. Chester Fire Department, Chester, Pennsylvania — one of the hardest-working, most under-resourced fire houses in the Commonwealth. He had just retired when January 6 happened. Read that again. A career first responder. THE SERVICE Robert Sanford served the City of Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania as a firefighter and was a recent retiree from the Chester Fire Department as of January 2021. (FACT — Philadelphia Inquirer; CBS Philadelphia; WUSA9; The Reporter/PressReader) Chester is a working-class city of roughly 32,000 in Delco. The men and women who run calls there do it with less equipment and more fire than almost anybody in the state. Sanford did that job. He lived in Boothwyn, Pennsylvania. Before he was a January 6 case number, he was the guy you called at 3 a.m. That is not a talking point. That is a career. THE LEGAL FIGHT Robert Sanford, Jr. was arrested on January 14, 2021 — one of the first J6 arrests in the country. He was indicted February 5, 2021. A superseding indictment followed on November 10, 2021. On September 23, 2022 he pleaded guilty to assaulting officers with a dangerous weapon. (FACT — DOJ; Philadelphia Inquirer) U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman sentenced him to 52 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. (FACT — WUSA9; UPI; CBS Philadelphia) The government's account is in the record and we do not soften it. He pleaded to it. Charges are charges and a plea is a plea. On January 20, 2025, the presidential clemency action covering offenses related to the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 issued full pardons across the J6 docket. (FACT) WHY THIS ONE MATTERS A lot of people in this archive are veterans, tradesmen, nurses, truckers, and first responders. Robert Sanford is one of the first responders. Whatever anybody thinks about that day, the man ran into buildings other people ran out of, for a living, in Chester, Pennsylvania. That is on his record too, and it does not get erased. CASE RECORD Name: Robert Sanford, Jr. Case No.: 1:21-cr-86 Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Arrested: January 14, 2021 Indicted: February 5, 2021 | Superseding indictment: November 10, 2021 Plea: September 23, 2022 Clemency: January 20, 2025 DOJ docket: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/sanford-robert This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.