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Frederick Breitfelder

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Frederick Breitfelder is a Harrison, Ohio man — a 60-year-old from the Cincinnati area — whose January 6 case holds one of the shortest lifespans in the entire J6 docket: arrested four days before the change of administration, dismissed with prejudice a week later. Start with the bottom line (FACT): Frederick Breitfelder was never convicted of anything related to January 6. He never entered a plea, never went to trial, never spent a day under a sentence. The timeline (FACT — DOJ announcement and Cincinnati coverage): the FBI arrested Breitfelder on January 16, 2025 — more than four years after January 6, 2021, and just four days before Inauguration Day. The complaint alleged felony counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers and obstruction during a civil disorder, based on video the government said showed him at a barricade and swinging an axe handle toward an officer's hand. Those were allegations in a complaint. They were never tested, never proven, and never adjudicated — and this archive states charges as charges, nothing more. On January 20, 2025, President Trump's proclamation directed the dismissal of all pending January 6 prosecutions (FACT). Days later, a federal judge in Washington dismissed the case against Frederick Breitfelder with prejudice — meaning it can never be refiled (FACT — Fox19 Cincinnati, January 24, 2025). Four days of exposure, zero convictions, case closed forever. That is the complete court record of Frederick Breitfelder of Harrison, Ohio. CASE RECORD - Charged by criminal complaint, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia - Arrested: January 16, 2025 (initial appearance, Southern District of Ohio) - Charges: felony assault/civil-disorder counts and related misdemeanors — allegations only, never adjudicated - Resolution: dismissed WITH PREJUDICE, January 2025, pursuant to the January 20, 2025 proclamation This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.