Jeremy Brown, a retired member of the U.S. Army Special Forces, is still in prison while his lawyer fights for his discharge under President Donald Trump’s pardon for offences committed on January 6.
Brown, a Tampa native sentenced to seven years on weapons claims, is among a handful of still-incarcerated criminals who are most associated with the 2021 U. S. Capitol riot, but who were charged with various acts outside of Washington, D. C.
The argument being made for Brown’s transfer: His additional crimes came to light only through the lessons of Jan. 6 studies.
As thousands of prisoners walked completely following Trump’s statement, Brown, 50, was transferred last week from a Washington, D. C., prison to the Grayson County Detention Center in Kentucky. The reason for the move is questionable.
A judge in 2022 , convicted Brown , on costs of possessing an unlicensed sawed-off gun, a short-barrelled weapons, fragmentation bombs and a classified military record. Federal officials claimed they discovered them on his Florida residence while executing a seek warrant related to Jan. 6 and his relations to the Oath Keepers, a violent extremist group that seized control of the Capitol.
Brown was also accused of two misdemeanors for being present at the mob on January 6 and wearing a helmet and military products. Those charges, court documents show, were dropped quickly after the mayor’s pardon.
The pardon should be granted for Brown’s federal convictions for crimes in Florida, according to a memo from one of Brown’s attorneys with the heading” Free Jeremy Brown,” because they are” 100 % J6 related as required by the Presidential Proclamation.” Jeremy was detained and imprisoned based on J6 rumor that resulted in a pretextual seek permit.
That attorney, Plant City-based Carolyn Stewart, posted website Saturday that “our statistics have reached the White House &, the answer is in the works”.
Different” J6ers” with also unclear forgive scenarios include Homosassa’s Daniel Ball, 38, who was released and , immediately re-arrested , on a subpoena for firearm possession – a command that emerged from a search related to Jan. 6.
Dominic Box, who was awaiting punishment for criminal civil disorder, is still in Brown’s Kentucky prisons. Box was detained by a lieutenant who claimed to have found him drained in his vehicle outside a Jacksonville restaurant while awaiting trial for his Jan. 6 costs.
Ben Martin, a California man convicted of illegally possessing eight weapon that officials found during a Jan. 6-related research, also remains in prison after his Jan. 6 claims were pardoned.
Since the senator issued his clemency on his first time in office, calls for the transfer of these so-called “left-behind J6ers” had been amplified in right-wing media and spread through pro-MAGA online communities. A typical prevent:” No gentleman left behind”.
Roger Stone, a close ally of Trump, wrote in a statement on X about Brown and Martin,” I did not rest until these patients are complimentary. In fact, I’m working on it right today”. Lara Logan, a former CBS News journalist and right-wing journalist, has also backed Brown’s discharge.
Federal brokers planted the bombs and other information, according to a state that Brown’s former prosecutor made at trial, in Stewart’s note on Brown. According to forensic analysis, the objects lacked Brown’s DNA.
The judge, which heard music of Brown reacting to information that agents found the bombs, obviously didn’t believe that protection. Jurors convicted Brown on six national expenses, including the bombs, and found him not guilty of four.
Brown appealed. Oral claims in that administrative case are scheduled for March 6 at the U. S. court in Jacksonville.
Brown mentioned his relationship to Jan. 6, 2021 in a lengthy speech at his Tampa imprisonment, suggesting the FBI was behind the riot.
Despite years of serving time in prison, recording apps over the telephone, and running a failed campaign for the Florida House of Representatives from prison, Brown has maintained a common occurrence.
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