At least 11 people from Jacksonville and nearby counties were charged in connection with the riot, where Floridians were exceptionally common<\/a>.<\/p>\n This image from inside the U.S. Capitol was part of the initial court filing against Rachael Pert and Dana Joe Winn, who the FBI identified as the woman wearing a flag like a cape and the man with her carrying an American flag.<\/p>\n More: What to say about Jan. 6 pardons? How about repeating congressman’s own words from that day.<\/a><\/p>\n “It was a wild day,” Jacksonville native Katie Schoettler, then an aide to U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., had reflected <\/a>the day after staffers like her were put on lockdown while police struggled with people ready to fight.<\/p>\n Two local men, Daniel Paul Gray of Jacksonville and Anthony Sargent<\/a> of St. Augustine, were serving prison sentences when Trump issued pardons<\/a> immediately after being sworn back into office Jan. 20, 2025.<\/p>\n Gray, who later said \u201cthe police would have been well within their rights to shoot me,\u201d pleaded guilty to assaulting a female officer, while Sargent pleaded to a felony charge of civil disorder as well as misdemeanor charges. Prosecutors said<\/a> at the time that Sargent grabbed and pushed a police officer to keep him from detaining another rioter, shover two officers who were retreating to safety and twice threw a heavy object at Capitol doors.<\/p>\n A Fleming Island man, Marcus Smith<\/a>, was sentenced to a year and a day behind bars for his part in wrecking a 168-year-old interior door that prosecutors priced at $21,000. But he was given that sentence just days before Trump issued pardons and hadn\u2019t had to report to prison yet.<\/p>\n Others had already been released from lockup, like Baker County resident Bradley Weeks<\/a>, who pleaded to obstructing an official proceeding and misdemeanor counts, or had completed probation like Middleburg residents Dana Joe Winn and Rachael Pert<\/a>, who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of entering and remaining in a restricted building.<\/p>\n This image of a man struggling to get past a police barrier at the Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot was part of a complaint filed in federal court in Washigton against Garth Nathaniel Walton.<\/p>\n More: Video of U.S. Capitol riot ‘contradicts public narrative,’ says St. Augustine man’s lawyer<\/a><\/p>\n Other people’s never-proven charges were dropped without trial after Trump’s pardon was issued. Yulee resident Garth Walton’s<\/a> felony case involving struggling with police was dropped<\/a> the day after the pardon, and Putnam County resident Dylan Swinehart<\/a> had been arrested a few months earlier on a misdemeanor charge that went away.<\/p>\n![\"This](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/d5af8f4d704c8382fec222682924d6b0.jpeg\"\/)
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