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Charges Dismissed With Prejudice — U.S. v. Nichols

U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr. moved to dismiss the charges in *United States v. Nichols* (1:21-cr-00117-TFH) with prejudice. Dismissal with prejudice bars the government from ever bringing the same charges again. The dismissal followed the January 20, 2025 presidential pardon and the broader Trump-administration review of January 6 cases.

📍 U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

AUSA Brasher Denies Federal Ties of Marcus DiPaola and 1% Watchdog (Pre-Plea)

Before Ryan's guilty plea, the defense filed a disclosure request asking whether Marcus DiPaola — the man inside Ryan's rescue organization who filmed the 2018 Ellen-DeGeneres-show rescue video — and 1% Watchdog — the entity that assigned Ryan rescue missions — were government assets. AUSA Douglas Brasher denied on the record that the government had any idea who 1% Watchdog was and stated that Marcus DiPaola was not a federal agent, not affiliated with the FBI, not affiliated with the feds. The denial was the predicate Brady violation. At this same point, Brasher told Ryan to take the plea deal — or, if Ryan went to trial, Brasher guaranteed he would be found guilty and that the government would seek the terrorism enhancement, just like they did to Matthew Perna. Brasher said Ryan would get it and end up with 20–30+ years in federal prison. Ryan was coerced and forced into the deal he took. The denial that hid Marcus DiPaola and 1% Watchdog's federal ties is what made that coercion possible — Ryan was pleading without knowing the men inside his own organization were assets of the government threatening to bury him. Exact filing date pending verification from the docket.

📍 U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Marcus DiPaola Federal-Informant Self-Admission Surfaces (Post-Sentencing)

Approximately a year and a half after Ryan's sentencing — while Ryan was in federal prison — a fellow detainee surfaced a public-record archive (https://archive.ph/jYVkv) in which Marcus DiPaola self-identifies as having worked for the FBI Chicago field office from 2016 to 2019 and openly discusses having been hot-mic'd and wired in 2020. Those years align precisely with the period he was embedded inside Ryan's hurricane-rescue organization and in direct contact with Ryan. The disclosure should have been turned over pre-plea under Brady v. Maryland. It was not.

📍 Public archive / federal prison

Pre-Incarceration Medical Baseline — Documented PTSD, Sertraline

Pre-incarceration medical records confirm pre-existing PTSD/anxiety diagnoses and an active Sertraline prescription before January 6, 2021. Establishes the medical baseline that DC DOC then refused to honor — central to the deliberate-indifference claim.

📍 DCOL Family Medical Clinic

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.

Thomas Sibick is present on the Lower West Terrace

Later filed records address Sibick's presence near the Lower West Terrace tunnel and his contact with Officer Michael Fanone. Government allegations and plea facts remain separately attributed.

📍 U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.

Complaint and Initial Appearance in Coffman Case

A federal complaint was filed and Coffman appeared in court following his custody. Complaint allegations remained unproven at this stage.

📍 U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

FBI Located and Arrested Cleveland Meredith

DOJ and plea records state that the FBI located Meredith at a Washington hotel on January 7, 2021. He consented to searches described in the filings. The complaint and initial federal court proceedings followed on January 8.

📍 Washington, D.C.

Douglas Austin Jensen turns himself in and is arrested

Jensen turned himself in to Des Moines police and participated in a recorded interview. The FBI affidavit’s account of that interview remains attributed to investigators.

📍 Des Moines, Iowa

Adam Johnson arrested in Florida

Johnson was arrested in Florida on the federal January 6 complaint. The complaint and probable-cause affidavit contained government allegations and did not determine guilt.

📍 Florida

Derrick Evans arrested in West Virginia

Evans was taken into federal custody on the initial January 6 complaint. The allegations in the complaint were not findings of guilt.

📍 West Virginia

Seventeen-Count Indictment Filed Against Lonnie Coffman

A federal grand jury returned a seventeen-count indictment. The indictment is a charging instrument; Coffman later pleaded guilty to three offenses rather than all seventeen allegations.

📍 Washington, D.C.

Lonnie Coffman Ordered Detained Pending Trial

Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey ordered Coffman detained after a January 12 hearing. The decision concerned pretrial-release standards, not final guilt.

📍 Washington, D.C.

Edward Jacob Lang arrested

The preserved DOJ defendant record lists Lang’s arrest on January 16, 2021. He later pleaded not guilty. The charges remained allegations because the case did not reach trial.

📍 New York

FBI affidavit attested for Alex Harkrider and Ryan Nichols

An FBI affidavit supporting a criminal complaint and arrest warrants was attested by telephone. It records the government’s probable-cause allegations; it is not a final finding of guilt.

📍 Washington, D.C.

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

Scott Fairlamb arrested

DOJ announced Fairlamb’s arrest and four complaint-stage charge categories. The allegations were accusations, not findings of guilt.

📍 New Jersey

Pretrial Detention Begins

Ordered detained pending trial — the period during which all 27 grievance categories below were filed.

Stephen Maury Baker arrested in January 6 case

Federal authorities arrested Stephen Maury Baker. Government charging descriptions remained allegations at this stage.

📍 Eastern District of North Carolina

Ethan Nordean Arrested in January 6 Case

DOJ reported Ethan Nordean’s arrest on February 3, 2021 on complaint-stage charges. The source expressly treated those charges and conduct descriptions as allegations.

📍 Washington state / federal court

Federal complaint filed against William Pope

A federal complaint initiated the case. The complaint alleged criminal conduct; it did not establish guilt.

📍 U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

FBI Statement of Facts Filed in Jonathan Mellis Case

An FBI affidavit was filed in magistrate case 1:21-mj-00224-ZMF. Its descriptions are government allegations supporting the complaint, not findings of guilt.

📍 U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Felicia Konold arrested; initial release conditions followed

Federal agents arrested Felicia Konold in Arizona on February 11, 2021. ECF 37 and 37-1, filed February 26, contain the release-order and appearance-bond packet. The public mirror verifies the filing and marked obligations to appear and surrender if sentenced, but many individualized fields are blank or not legible; a complete custody ledger remains uncaptured.

📍 Arizona

William and Michael Pope indicted

A grand jury returned an eight-count indictment in D.D.C. case 1:21-cr-00128-RC. Each count remained an accusation.

📍 Washington, D.C.

David Alan Blair arrested

DOJ reports that David Alan Blair was arrested in Washington, D.C. The arrest is a procedural event and is not presented as proof of guilt.

📍 Washington, D.C.

Bennie and Sandra Parker Arrested in Ohio

DOJ reported that Sandra Ruth Parker and Bennie Alvin Parker were arrested in Ohio on February 18, 2021. The complaint affidavit and superseding-indictment descriptions remain government allegations rather than independent archive findings.

📍 Ohio

Federal authorities arrest Thomas Sibick in New York

Sibick was arrested after the March 10 complaint affidavit. Arrest is a procedural event, not proof of every complaint allegation.

📍 Western District of New York

Julian Khater arrested

Khater was arrested at Newark Liberty International Airport. The Justice Department announced complaint-stage allegations the following day; those allegations were not yet findings of guilt.

📍 Newark, New Jersey

Judge Jackson orders Thomas Sibick detained pending trial

After reviewing a magistrate judge's release decision, Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered detention. The ruling addressed pretrial risk, not final guilt.

📍 U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Andrew Cavanaugh initial appearance

A public docket index reports an initial appearance on March 19, 2021. Native transcript or minute entry remains pending.

📍 Federal court

Four-Count Superseding Indictment Filed

The superseding indictment charged interstate communication of threats and three District of Columbia weapons-related offenses. Meredith was ultimately convicted on Count One only; the signed judgment dismissed all remaining counts.

📍 U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Four-count criminal information filed against Stephen Ethan Horn

ECF No. 5 charged four misdemeanor counts. The information was a charging instrument; later trial records control the disposition.

📍 U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Court orders Scott Fairlamb detained pending trial

Judge Royce C. Lamberth reviewed a magistrate judge’s conditional-release decision and ordered pretrial detention. The ruling addressed release standards, not final guilt.

📍 Washington, D.C.

Julian Khater ordered detained pending trial

Judge Thomas F. Hogan denied release after an individualized Bail Reform Act assessment. The ruling concerned pretrial custody, not guilt.

📍 Washington, D.C.

Criminal information filed against Andrew Cavanaugh

A four-count misdemeanor criminal information was filed. The counts were allegations at filing; Cavanaugh later pleaded guilty to one count and the other three were dismissed.

📍 Washington, D.C.

Daniel Paul Gray arrested

DOJ announced Gray’s arrest in Florida. Conduct descriptions in the complaint-stage record remain government allegations.

📍 Florida

Court Denies Coffman Detention Reconsideration

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly denied Coffman’s motion to revoke the detention order in ECF No. 19. The ruling addressed detention and risk under the Bail Reform Act.

📍 Washington, D.C.

Andrew Cavanaugh arraigned and enters not-guilty pleas

The docket index reports that Cavanaugh was arraigned and pleaded not guilty to the four information counts.

📍 Washington, D.C.

Brian Christopher Mock arrested

DOJ reported Mock’s arrest on federal charges related to January 6. The conduct descriptions in the arrest release are complaint-stage allegations, not findings.

📍 Minnesota

Robert Morss arrested in Pennsylvania

Morss was arrested and made an initial appearance in the Western District of Pennsylvania. The charges described in the complaint were allegations at that stage.

📍 Western District of Pennsylvania

Mitchell Paul Vukich arrested on federal January 6 charges

Federal authorities arrested Vukich in Pennsylvania. The five complaint-stage offenses were allegations, not convictions.

📍 Pennsylvania

FBI paperwork recommends watchlisting Christine Crowder

The released timeline states that FBI paperwork recommended adding Crowder to the Terrorist Screening Dataset. No captured source identifies a criminal charge against her.

📍 Federal Bureau of Investigation

Scott Fairlamb pleads guilty to two felony counts

Fairlamb pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers.

📍 Washington, D.C.

David Nicholas Dempsey arrested in California

The FBI arrested David Nicholas Dempsey in California. DOJ’s same-day announcement described complaint-stage charges and expressly stated that the charges were allegations.

📍 California

Court revokes Douglas Jensen’s pretrial release

Later ECF Nos. 54 and 55 state that Judge Kelly found release-condition violations by clear and convincing evidence and found Jensen unlikely to comply with release conditions. The native order and hearing transcript remain pending.

📍 Washington, D.C.

Jacob Chansley pleaded guilty to one obstruction count

Chansley pleaded guilty to one felony count under 18 U.S.C. §1512(c)(2). Government descriptions of conduct remain attributed to the plea and court record.

📍 U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Cleveland Meredith Pleaded Guilty to Count One

Meredith pleaded guilty under a written Rule 11(c)(1)(B) agreement to interstate communication of threats, 18 U.S.C. § 875(c). The government agreed to seek dismissal of the remaining counts at sentencing.

📍 U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Superseding Indictment Filed in Sandlin–DeGrave Case

A superseding indictment was filed in No. 1:21-cr-00088-DLF. Its allegations remain attributed to the government.

📍 Washington, D.C.