List of cases of the January 6 United States Capitol attack

On January 6, 2021, Trump supporters attacked the Capitol, disrupting the joint session of Congress assembled to count electoral votes to formalize Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 United States presidential election.[1]

By the end of the year, 725 people had been charged with federal crimes.[2][3] That number rose to 1,000 by the second anniversary of the attack,[2] to 1,200 by the third anniversary (three-quarters of whom had by then been found guilty)[4][5] and to 1,500 before the fourth anniversary.[6] As of January 20, 2025, 1,575 people were charged in connection with the January 6 attack. The FBI has estimated that around 2,000 people took part in criminal acts at the event.[7]

Upon Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2025, he pardoned all but 14 of about 1,270 convicted rioters. The remaining 14 people, though their convictions stood, were eligible for immediate release from prison, as he commuted their sentences to "time served."[8][9] Following Trump's pardons, the Justice Department moved to dismiss some cases awaiting trial or sentencing.

Subsequent to the pardon action,some of the January 6 defendants and their survivors moved to sue the Department of Justice and federal law enforcement agencies.[10] Most notably, the Department of Justice agreed to pay the family of Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot in the Capitol assault, $5 million in a lawsuit settlement.[11] Other January 6 defendants have gone to court to have their sentencing fines refunded, or to file claims against the U.S. Department of Justice and other federal law enforcement agencies for injuries or property damage.[12]

Previous sources of information

A list of "breach" cases, meaning cases in which the defendant was alleged to have entered a restricted area of the Capitol during the riot, was kept updated by the US Attorney's Office, District of Columbia.[13] It was available until the morning of January 24, 2025,[14] four days after President Trump had issued a blanket pardon, but later in the day, it said "Page not found." CNN reported its erasure the next day.[15] Soon afterwards, some of the video evidence that had been part of court cases related to the prosecutions disappeared from a government server. A coalition of press organizations went to court over the missing evidence, and a judge subsequently ordered the government to stop removing the materials.[16]

NPR has a database of all 1,575 cases in the Capitol attack prior to Trump's pardons, searchable by U.S. state, charges, and case status.[7]

For plea deals entered between April–October 2021, BuzzFeed has a searchable table.[17] After Trump's mass pardon in 2025, the Democratic Secretary of States Association launched a website to track the Capitol attackers' ongoing legal issues[18].

Index of names

Groups of defendants

  • June 10, 2021 – The Los Angeles FBI Field Office arrested and charged six Southern California individuals in relation to the January 6 riots. Of the six individuals, three of them self-identified in Telegram chats as members of the Three Percenters. They are all charged with multiple felonies, including conspiracy, obstructing an official proceeding, and unlawful entry on restricted building or grounds. One of the charged, the former police chief of the city of La Habra, California, was charged with obstructing law enforcement during a civil disorder and unlawful possession of a dangerous weapon on Capitol grounds. Two members of the Three Percenters were additionally charged with tampering with documents or proceedings related to their deletion of Telegram chats and content to avoid detection by law enforcement. The six men, along with at least thirty others, were part of a private Telegram group which planned to attack the Capitol on January 6 and conspired to bring weapons.[19][20]
  • June 11, 2021 – The FBI announced arrests and charges for three people, two from Minnesota and one from Iowa, who participated in the events on Jan 6. A man from Minneapolis, Minnesota, faced charges for his alleged actions of breaking through a police line and assaulting two Capitol police officers. According to his charging documents, the man posted photos of himself on Facebook and made claims that he was "beating up cops" while in Washington, D.C. A man from Austin, Minnesota, and his father, a resident of St. Ansgar, Iowa, were arrested without resistance and faced charges related to participating in events inside the Capitol building.[21]
  • October 4, 2021 – Three men from Lindstrom, Minnesota, were charged with several federal counts for entering the Capitol building and assaulting police officers on January 6. They were among eight people in total from Minnesota charged in connection with the events.[22]

See also

References

  1. ^ Reeves, Jay; Mascaro, Lisa; Woodward, Calvin (11 January 2021). "Capitol assault a more sinister attack than first appeared". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 13 January 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2021. Under battle flags bearing Donald Trump's name, the Capitol's attackers pinned a bloodied police officer in a doorway, his twisted face and screams captured on video. They mortally wounded another officer with a blunt weapon and body-slammed a third over a railing into the crowd. 'Hang Mike Pence!' the rioters chanted as they pressed inside, beating police with pipes.They demanded House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's whereabouts, too. They hunted any and all lawmakers: 'Where are they?' Outside, makeshift gallows stood, complete with sturdy wooden steps and the noose. Guns and pipe bombs had been stashed in the vicinity. ... The mob got stirring encouragement from Trump and more explicit marching orders from the president's men. 'Fight like hell,' Trump exhorted his partisans at the staging rally. 'Let's have trial by combat,' implored his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, whose attempt to throw out election results in trial by courtroom failed. It's time to 'start taking down names and kicking ass', said Republican Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama. Criminals pardoned by Trump, among them Roger Stone and Michael Flynn, came forward at rallies on the eve of the attack to tell the crowds they were fighting a battle between good and evil
  2. ^ a b Hall, Madison; Gould, Skye; Harrington, Rebecca; Shamsian, Jacob; Haroun, Azmi; Ardrey, Taylor; Snodgrass, Erin (5 January 2023). "At least 978 people have been charged in the Capitol insurrection so far. This searchable table shows them all". Insider. Retrieved 6 January 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  3. ^ Alexander, Keith L. (31 December 2021). "Prosecutors break down charges, convictions for 725 arrested so far in Jan. 6 attack on U.S. Capitol". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2 January 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  4. ^ Rabinowitz, Hannah; Lybrand, Holmes (6 January 2024). "It may be a long time, if ever, before everyone involved in January 6 is punished. Here's why". CNN. Archived from the original on 4 February 2024. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  5. ^ "District of Columbia | Three Years Since the Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol". www.justice.gov. 6 October 2023. Archived from the original on 8 January 2024. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  6. ^ Long, Colleen; Merica, Dan (10 November 2024). "Trump on Day 1: Begin deportation push, pardon Jan. 6 rioters and make his criminal cases vanish". AP News. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
  7. ^ a b "The Capitol Charges". NPR. Retrieved 6 January 2026.
  8. ^ "Granting Pardons and Commutation of Sentences for Certain Offenses Relating to the Events at or Near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021" (Press release). The White House. 20 January 2025. Retrieved 21 January 2025.{{cite press release}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  9. ^ Jansen, Bart (20 January 2025). "Donald Trump pardons nearly 1,600 defendants from Jan. 6, keeping campaign pledge and outraging critics". USA TODAY. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  10. ^ Tillman, Zoe (10 December 2025). "Trump Pardoned Them for Jan. 6. Now They Want Millions of Dollars". Bloomberg. Retrieved 12 December 2025.
  11. ^ Faulders, Katherine (19 May 2025). "Ashli Babbitt's family to receive $5 million in settlement with Trump administration: Sources". ABC News. Retrieved 12 December 2025.
  12. ^ Reinhard, Beth (21 January 2026). "They ransacked the U.S. Capitol and want the government to pay them back". Washington Post. Retrieved 23 January 2026.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  13. ^ "Capitol Breach Cases". United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. United States Department of Justice. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 6 May 2021. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  14. ^ "District of Columbia | Capitol Breach Cases | United States Department of Justice". justice.gov. Archived from the original on 24 January 2025. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  15. ^ O'Sullivan, Donie; Polantz, Katelyn (26 January 2025). "Trump wiped January 6 convicts' records clean. Now his DOJ is wiping evidence of rioters' crimes from the internet". CNN. Retrieved 26 January 2025.
  16. ^ Dreisbach, Tom (12 February 2025). "Jan. 6 video evidence has 'disappeared' from public access, media coalition says". Retrieved 13 January 2026.
  17. ^ Tillman, Zoe (13 October 2021). "100 Capitol Rioters Have Pleaded Guilty. Here's What They Did And What They're Facing". BuzzFeed News. Archived from the original on 13 October 2021. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
  18. ^ "Jan. 6th Insurrectionists Crime Tracker". Democratic Association of Secretaries of State. Retrieved 13 February 2026.
  19. ^ "Indictment". United States Department of Justice. 10 June 2021. Archived from the original on 11 June 2021. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  20. ^ Service, City News (11 June 2021). "Ex-police chief, 5 others SoCal men charged in Capitol riot conspiracy". ABC7 Los Angeles. Archived from the original on 1 July 2021. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  21. ^ Miller, Maya (11 June 2021). "Two Minnesotans, one Iowan arrested for engaging in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection". Star Tribune. Archived from the original on 13 June 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
  22. ^ Montemayor, Stephen (4 October 2021). "FBI arrests 3 Lindstrom men on charges related to Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot". Star Tribune. Archived from the original on 4 October 2021. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
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