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Andrew Michael Cavanaugh

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Andrew Michael Cavanaugh is a United States Marine Corps veteran and a Montana small-business owner — a man who once stood post guarding an American embassy overseas. FACT: Local Montana reporting and Military.com describe Cavanaugh as a decorated U.S. Marine veteran who served on embassy security duty during his time in the Corps. THEIR ACCOUNT: his own business website listed deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Embassy duty is not handed out. The Marine Security Guard program takes Marines the Corps trusts to stand alone at the edge of American sovereignty, in someone else''s country, in dress blues, and not flinch. Andrew Cavanaugh did that job. ## The Belgrade business he built FACT: Cavanaugh founded and owned **Tactical Citizen**, a firearms-training academy based in Belgrade, Montana, in the Gallatin Valley just outside Bozeman. Bozeman Daily Chronicle coverage identified him as a Belgrade business owner and former Marine. He took what the Marine Corps taught him about weapons handling and safety and sold it back to civilians in his own valley — the boring, unglamorous, genuinely useful work of teaching ordinary Montanans not to hurt themselves or anyone else with a firearm. The academy is now closed. ## The legal fight, and where it stands Andrew Cavanaugh''s January 6 case ended about as small as a January 6 case could end. FACT: Arrested March 16, 2021. A criminal information was filed May 14, 2021. On February 17, 2022 he pleaded guilty to **one misdemeanor count** under 40 U.S.C. § 5104(e)(2)(G) — parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. Counts 1 through 3 were dismissed at sentencing. FACT: On August 4, 2022, Judge Amit P. Mehta sentenced him to 24 months of probation, 60 hours of community service, and $500 in restitution. No prison. Military.com headlined it plainly: probation. FACT: On January 20, 2025, Andrew Michael Cavanaugh was covered by the full-pardon provision of the January 6 clemency proclamation, and his name appears on the Office of the Pardon Attorney certificate-recipient list. One misdemeanor. Probation. A pardon. That is the whole federal record, and this archive will not let anyone inflate it. ## Case record - Case number: 1:21-cr-362 - Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia - Judge: Amit P. Mehta - Arrest: March 16, 2021 - Plea: February 17, 2022 — one misdemeanor, 40 U.S.C. § 5104(e)(2)(G) - Sentence: August 4, 2022 — 24 months probation, 60 hours community service, $500 restitution - Clemency: January 20, 2025 — full J6 pardon (OPA recipient list verified) - DOJ record: justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/cavanaugh-andrew For anyone searching *Andrew Cavanaugh January 6*, *Bozeman Montana January 6 defendant*, *Belgrade Montana Tactical Citizen*, *Marine veteran January 6 pardon*, or *pardoned January 6 Gallatin County* — the record is one misdemeanor and a pardon. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.