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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

Lonnie Coffman Taken Into Federal Custody

The sentencing release states that Coffman had been in custody since his January 6, 2021 arrest. The January 8 charging release described the arrest as occurring the previous day; the archive preserves the date conflict and uses January 6 as the custody-start date supported by the later official sentencing record and detention opinion.

📍 Washington, D.C.

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.

Hernandez enters the Capitol and Senate Gallery

According to DOJ's admitted-record account, Hernandez entered at about 2:37 p.m., reached the Senate Gallery, and exited about 2:51 p.m.

📍 U.S. 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.

Cleveland Meredith Arrived in Washington After Capitol Events Ended

The signed statement of offense states that Meredith arrived in Washington on the evening of January 6, 2021, after the events at the U.S. Capitol had ended. The preserved record does not establish that he entered the 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

Brian P. McCreary submits January 6 video to FBI tip line

The FBI affidavit and government sentencing memorandum state that a tip under McCreary’s name supplied videos and descriptions shortly after he returned home. This event records the attributed source history, not an independent judgment about the contents.

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

Richard Barnett arrested

Richard Barnett was arrested in Arkansas in connection with the January 6 investigation.

📍 Little Rock, Arkansas

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

Jacob Chansley arrested

The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Jacob Anthony Chansley’s arrest and initial federal charges. The accusations were allegations at this stage.

📍 Arizona / federal custody

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.

Peter Francis Stager arrested

Peter Francis Stager surrendered in Arkansas and entered federal custody. The final judgment later awarded custody credit beginning January 14, 2021.

📍 Arkansas

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.

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

Peter Francis Stager initial appearance

Stager appeared before a federal magistrate judge, and detention continued. This was a preliminary proceeding, not a determination of guilt.

📍 Federal court

Thomas Caldwell arrested in Virginia

The Justice Department records that Thomas Edward Caldwell was arrested in Virginia on January 19, 2021. Charges and government allegations are not treated as proof of moral character.

📍 Virginia

Government seeks review of Jensen pretrial-release order

After an Iowa magistrate judge ordered conditional release and stayed implementation, the government filed ECF No. 5 asking Judge Timothy J. Kelly to stay and review that order. This event records the motion, not the final detention ruling.

📍 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

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)

Brian P. McCreary participates in voluntary FBI interview

The FBI Statement of Facts and sentencing record describe a voluntary interview in which McCreary discussed his presence and recordings. Statements are attributed to the filing.

Nathaniel DeGrave Arrested

DeGrave was arrested in Nevada. Arrest is a procedural event and is not proof of guilt or character.

📍 Nevada

Initial indictment returned in Stager’s federal case

A federal grand jury returned the initial indictment in the shared Lower West Terrace case. Charges are government allegations unless resolved by plea or adjudication.

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

Federal Indictment

Federal grand jury returns an indictment in United States v. Nichols and Harkrider charging Ryan with felonies in the District of Columbia. Co-defendant: Alex Kirk Harkrider.

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

Ryan Stephen Samsel arrested

DOJ reported that Samsel was arrested in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. This event records custody initiation, not a finding of guilt.

📍 Eastern District of Pennsylvania

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

Peter J. Schwartz arrested

The Justice Department reports that Peter J. Schwartz was arrested in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.

📍 Uniontown, Pennsylvania

Brian P. McCreary arrested

The archived DOJ case chronology records McCreary’s February 4, 2021 arrest.

📍 Springfield, Massachusetts

Nathaniel DeGrave Initially Indicted

A federal grand jury returned the initial indictment in No. 1:21-cr-00090-PLF. The charges were accusations, not findings.

📍 Washington, D.C.

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

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 Pope arrested

William Alexander Pope was arrested in Topeka, Kansas. The arrest did not establish guilt.

📍 Topeka, Kansas

Jonathan Mellis Arrested in Virginia

The DOJ sentencing release and captured defense filing confirm that Mellis was arrested in Williamsburg, Virginia, on February 16, 2021.

📍 Williamsburg, Virginia

Kelly Meggs arrested in Florida

DOJ reported that Kelly Meggs was arrested in Florida. The arrest initiated the criminal process and did not establish guilt.

📍 Florida