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Sara Carpenter

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Sara Carpenter is a retired New York City police officer who spent a decade, 1994 to 2004, wearing the badge before her name ever touched a January 6 court file. FACT: According to the New York Police Department, Sara Carpenter served as an NYPD officer from 1994 to 2004. FACT: According to court documents, her E-ZPass records placed her driving from the New York area to Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021 and back home that same night. FACT: In an FBI interview, Carpenter said she heard the president tell the crowd to march to the Capitol, and she marched there and entered the Rotunda, where security footage shows her recording video. FACT: A jury convicted her in March 2023 on two felonies, civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding, along with five misdemeanors related to trespassing and disorderly conduct. FACT: According to the Justice Department, she was sentenced to 22 months in prison and 24 months of supervised release. This is the most serious case in this batch, and this record states that plainly rather than softening it. A former NYPD officer who took an oath to uphold the law was convicted by a jury for actions that violated it. Her decade of prior police service is also a fact, and it belongs on this page alongside the conviction, because the full record includes both. Sara Carpenter served New York City for ten years before this case. That service does not erase the jury's verdict, and the jury's verdict does not erase the service. Both are true. January 20, 2025: President Trump issued a sweeping clemency proclamation covering January 6 defendants nationwide. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: whether Sara Carpenter's felony conviction was affected by that proclamation is not confirmed in the sources reviewed for this profile, and this page will be corrected once that status is verified. Case record: Case No. 1:21-cr-305, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Arrested March 23, 2021. Convicted by jury March 2023 on civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding felonies plus five misdemeanors. Sentenced to 22 months in prison, 24 months supervised release. Ten years on the job. A jury's verdict years later. Both belong in the record. Read it in full. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.