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Seth Eden Sarty

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Seth Eden Sarty is a Georgia man whose January 6 prosecution ended before trial, conviction, or sentencing. Federal records identify the case as *United States v. Sarty*, No. 1:24-cr-00130-CKK, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia before Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly. This profile separates the government’s allegations, the not-guilty plea, the dismissal with prejudice, and the later Office of the Pardon Attorney certificate record. None of those procedural facts is presented as a complete judgment about Sarty’s character. ## Case overview An FBI Statement of Facts was filed in magistrate matter No. 1:24-mj-00019-MAU on January 19, 2024. The affidavit identifies Seth Sarty and his brother, Cepane Jo Sarty, and presents the government’s probable-cause account of their alleged movements and conduct inside the Capitol. The document contains surveillance and body-camera images selected and annotated by investigators. Those images and captions are government-prepared evidence, not independent findings by this archive. DOJ reported that Seth and Cepane were arrested by the FBI in Georgia on February 5, 2024. The complaint alleged one felony offense and several misdemeanors. A later grand-jury indictment charged each brother with two felony counts and six misdemeanor counts. All eight counts remained allegations because the case ended before trial. ## Charges and plea posture The indictment charged civil disorder; assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers; entering or remaining in restricted grounds; disorderly or disruptive conduct in restricted grounds; physical violence in restricted grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; physical violence in Capitol grounds or a building; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. On March 22, 2024, Seth Sarty and Cepane Jo Sarty entered not-guilty pleas. A jury trial was later scheduled for June 2, 2025. The archive does not describe either brother as convicted on these counts. ## Dismissal with prejudice On January 21, 2025, the government moved under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 48(a) to dismiss the indictment with prejudice. The motion cited the January 20 presidential proclamation directing the Attorney General to seek dismissal with prejudice of pending January 6 indictments. Seth joined the request and Cepane consented. On January 24, 2025, Judge Kollar-Kotelly granted the motion, dismissed the indictment with prejudice, vacated the release orders and all scheduled proceedings, denied pending motions as moot, and directed the clerk to close the case. No trial, conviction, or sentence occurred. The court’s commentary and the parties’ litigation positions remain attributed to those sources. ## Clemency certificate record The DOJ Office of the Pardon Attorney’s public FOIA page lists the exact name “SARTY, SETH EDEN” among people who requested and were issued a certificate under the January 20, 2025 January 6 proclamation. A person-specific certificate binary has not yet been preserved. The certificate-recipient record is documented separately from the court’s Rule 48 dismissal; the final judicial disposition remains dismissal with prejudice, not a conviction followed by sentencing. ## Timeline - **January 19, 2024:** FBI Statement of Facts filed in magistrate matter No. 1:24-mj-00019-MAU. - **February 5, 2024:** Seth and Cepane Sarty arrested by the FBI in Georgia. - **March 22, 2024:** Both entered not-guilty pleas in D.D.C. case No. 1:24-cr-00130-CKK. - **January 20, 2025:** Presidential proclamation directed dismissal with prejudice of pending January 6 indictments. - **January 21, 2025:** Government moved to dismiss the Sarty indictment with prejudice. - **January 24, 2025:** Court granted dismissal with prejudice and closed the case. ## Frequently asked questions ### Was Seth Sarty convicted or sentenced? No. He pleaded not guilty, and the indictment was dismissed with prejudice before the scheduled trial. No conviction or sentence was entered. ### How many counts were in the indictment? Eight counts per defendant: two felonies and six misdemeanors. These remained allegations because the case did not proceed to trial. ### What does “dismissed with prejudice” mean here? It means the indictment was dismissed in a way that bars the government from refiling the same charges in that case. The order was entered under Rule 48(a) after the government requested dismissal. ### Was Seth Sarty issued a pardon certificate? The Office of the Pardon Attorney’s public recipient page lists “SARTY, SETH EDEN” among people who requested and were issued a certificate. The archive still needs the person-specific certificate file to preserve its exact text, pages, metadata, and binary hash. ### Is Cepane Sarty connected to this record? Yes. Cepane Jo Sarty was Seth’s co-defendant and brother. The complaint, indictment, not-guilty pleas, dismissal motion, and dismissal order apply to both men. The public certificate-recipient page located in this review lists Seth but did not return a Cepane entry, so the archive does not infer a person-specific certificate for Cepane. ## Case Nexus and archive connections Related records include the [DOJ arrest announcement](/case/documents/seth-cepane-sarty-doj-arrest-release-2024-02-06), the [FBI Statement of Facts](/case/documents/seth-cepane-sarty-fbi-statement-of-facts-2024-01-19), the [dismissal opinion and order](/case/documents/united-states-v-sarty-dismissal-order-2025-01-24), the [Seth Eden Sarty certificate-recipient record](/case/documents/seth-eden-sarty-pardon-certificate-recipient-record), [Cepane Jo Sarty’s profile](/case/people/cepane-sarty), the [central January 6 timeline](/case/timeline), and the [evidence intake page](/case/submit). ## Source and editorial boundaries Complaint and indictment descriptions are attributed government allegations. The not-guilty pleas and dismissal are procedural facts established by the court record. The site’s editorial position may analyze January 6 defendants as victims of alleged or documented Biden-era DOJ weaponization, but that analysis remains separate from the underlying filings and does not erase material facts or create unsupported defenses. ## Evidence and image priorities The archive is seeking the native indictment, government dismissal motion, defense responses, native January 24 order, complete PACER or RECAP docket, person-specific pardon certificate, authenticated firsthand statements, and any photograph with documented original provenance and lawful reuse permission. No portrait is assigned. A future image should identify Seth accurately and use descriptive alt text such as “Seth Eden Sarty in a verified, provenance-cleared photograph connected to his January 6 case record.”