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Benjamen Scott Burlew
Pardoned January 6 defendant
Documented editorial-use imageBenjamen Scott Burlew is from Miami, Oklahoma. FACT: He was arrested on August 19, 2021, and made his initial appearance the next day (DOJ; KFOR; The Hill). FACT: He later pleaded guilty to a felony count of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers, entering his plea before Judge Randolph D. Moss (DOJ). FACT: On January 20, 2025, the clemency proclamation covered his case. Beyond the court file and the wire coverage of his arrest, very little about Burlew himself — his work, his family, his life in Ottawa County — ever made the papers. If that story exists, this page is where it belongs. The case record: Case 1:21-mj-501 — U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Charges, per the DOJ record: Assault in Special Maritime and Territorial Jurisdiction; Act of Physical Violence on Grounds. The docket, as recorded: Arrested 8/19. Initial appearance held 8/20. Indicted 10/27. Later pleaded guilty to assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers, per the DOJ release. On January 20, 2025, President Trump granted clemency covering the January 6 prosecutions. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.
The case file
On the record
- Case number
- 1:21-mj-501
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- Disposition
- Arrested 8/19. Initial appearance held 8/20. Indicted 10/27.
Charges
- Assault in Special Maritime and Territorial Jurisdiction
- Act of Physical Violence on Grounds
Press & news
- https://kfor.com/news/oklahoma-man-charged-in-assault-on-ap-photographer-during-capitol-riot/ →
- https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/569214-man-charged-in-jan-6-assault-of-news-photographer/ →
- https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/burlew-benjamin-scott →
- https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/oklahoma-man-arrested-assault-media-during-jan-6-capitol-breach →
- https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/oklahoma-man-pleads-guilty-assaulting-law-enforcement-during-jan-6-capitol-breach →
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Connection to United States v. Nichols
Benjamen Scott Burlew appears in the record of United States v. Nichols. The full case — timeline, people, documents — is public and free.
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