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Timothy J. Desjardins
January 6 defendant
Documented editorial-use imageTimothy Desjardins is a Providence, Rhode Island man whose January 6 federal case is now closed, dismissed by the government's own hand. CHARGE ONLY / NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: Federal prosecutors alleged Desjardins carried a backpack with axes to the Capitol grounds on January 6, 2021 and struck officers with a broken table leg during the crush at the tunnel on the building's lower west terrace. These are allegations from a charging document. Desjardins pleaded not guilty and was never convicted of any of it. FACT: Desjardins was indicted by a federal grand jury on January 8, 2025 and pleaded not guilty to all charges: Civil Disorder, Assaulting Officers, and related counts. FACT: On January 22, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted the government's motion to dismiss the case against Timothy Desjardins with prejudice. The federal January 6 case is over and cannot be refiled. RYAN STATEMENT: The presumption of innocence is not a slogan, it is the law. Desjardins was charged, he denied it, and the government walked away from its own case rather than prove it to a jury. That belongs in this record with the same weight as the arrest. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: News coverage from Rhode Island also reports a separate state court matter in Providence, unrelated to January 6, in which Desjardins received a lengthy sentence. That is a different case, in a different court, under a different set of facts. It is not part of the federal January 6 record and this archive does not conflate the two. This is the record on the federal charge: dismissed with prejudice. Show me the evidence. The evidence here is a closed federal case. CASE RECORD: Federal case, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Indicted January 8, 2025. Dismissed with prejudice January 22, 2025. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.
The case file
On the record
- Case number
- 1:21-mj-663
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- Disposition
- Complaint filed 11/19/2021. Desjardins was indicted by Grand Jury on 1/8/2025. Pleaded not guilty to all charges: Civil Disorder; Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers Using a Dangerous Weapon; Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon. On 1/22/2025, the court granted the government's motion to dismiss the case with prejudice.
Charges
- Assaulting, Resisting or Impeding Certain Officers using a Dangerous Weapon or Inflicting Bodily Injury
- Civil Disorder
- Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon
- Engaging in Physical Violence in a Restricted Building or Grounds with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon
- Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building
- Parading, Demonstrating or Picketing in a Capitol Building
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Connection to United States v. Nichols
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