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January 6, 2021 — The Capitol

Ryan Taylor Nichols — United States Marine Corps veteran, founder of Wholesale Universe, Inc. (a multi-million-dollar wholesale/retail company he built from the ground up), Texas Search and Rescue volunteer, and father — travels from Texas to Washington, D.C. to attend the rally. He is present at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The detention that followed cost him his marriage and his presence in his children's daily lives.

📍 United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.

Alex Kirk Harkrider arrested

DOJ reports that Alex Kirk Harkrider and co-defendant Ryan Nichols were arrested on January 18, 2021.

📍 Texas

Arrest

Ryan Taylor Nichols arrested by federal agents at his home in Longview, Texas. The arrest follows by twelve days the events at the Capitol.

📍 Longview, Texas

Pretrial detention ordered for Alex Harkrider

Following a preliminary and detention hearing, a magistrate found probable cause and ordered Harkrider detained pending trial. This was a pretrial ruling rather than a verdict.

📍 U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas

First Bond Hearing — Hon. K. Nicole Mitchell, Tyler, Texas (Denied)

Ryan's first bond hearing — four days after his January 18, 2021 arrest — before Hon. K. Nicole Mitchell, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (Tyler Division). Pretrial release denied on 1/22/21. Five cited reasons included references to planned attack, text messages regarding weapons/body armor, and threats. Confirmed in scan j6s26-004 (handwritten Nichols transcription of the ruling). Next bond hearing would not happen until December 20, 2021 — nearly 11 months later — before Judge Hogan and under coerced-vaccination preconditions.

📍 U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas (Tyler)

Daniel Ray Caldwell arrested in Texas

Federal agents arrested Caldwell on February 10, 2021. The arrest began a pretrial-custody period later reviewed in a published district-court detention opinion.

📍 Texas

Benjamin Larocca arrested in Texas

Larocca was arrested March 26, 2021. The charges were allegations at this stage.

📍 Texas

Felipe Martinez arrested in Austin

A returned federal warrant records Felipe Antonio “Tony” Martinez’s arrest in Austin, Texas. The arrest-stage charges were accusations, not findings.

📍 Austin, Texas

Felipe Martinez released under conditions

Judge Royce C. Lamberth ordered Martinez released under supervision in the Western District of Texas subject to the conditions marked in the signed order.

📍 Washington, D.C.

Motion for Reconsideration of Detention Order Filed

Defense files a motion asking the court to reconsider pretrial detention. This motion sits between the February 2021 first bond hearing in Tyler, Texas (denied) and the December 2021 second bond hearing before Judge Hogan (where Ryan was forced to take the COVID vaccine as a precondition and was still denied bond).

Second Bond Hearing — Dec 20, 2021 (Judge Hogan)

Ryan's second bond hearing — almost a year after the first one in Tyler, Texas was denied. Judge Thomas Hogan conditioned access to this hearing on Ryan taking the COVID vaccine. Ryan went on the record stating he did not want the shot; told his attorney the same. He reluctantly took the first dose on Dec 4, 2021 to preserve access to the hearing. DC DOC then refused the required second dose until after the window expired. Bond denied at the Dec 20, 2021 hearing despite Judge Hogan's on-record admission that prolonged solitary confinement violated Ryan's due process rights. Confirmed in scans j6s14-014 (Step 4 Deputy Director Appeal, 3/18/22) and j6s18-016 (12/7/21 IGP).

📍 U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia / DC DOC

Stewart Rhodes Arrested

DOJ announced the seditious-conspiracy indictment and Rhodes was arrested in Texas.

📍 Texas

Alex Harkrider gives East Texas interview after release

In a KSLA/KLTV report, Harkrider thanked supporters and discussed returning home, reconnecting with Ryan Nichols, and hoping to return to search-and-rescue and catering. These are attributed firsthand statements.

📍 Carthage, Texas