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Tanner Bryce Sells

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Tanner Bryce Sells is a small business owner and a young dad from Chandler, Oklahoma. He built his own construction company. He was 26 years old and the father of a toddler when he stood up in a federal courtroom in Washington, D.C. An Oklahoma state legislator wrote to the judge asking for compassion for him. That does not happen for strangers. That happens for people the community actually knows. THE MAN Tanner Bryce Sells is from Chandler, in Lincoln County, Oklahoma. He owns and runs his own construction company and is the father of a young son. (FACT — defense sentencing filings reported by Oklahoma press; Tulsa World; KFOR) Construction in small-town Oklahoma is a build-it-yourself life: your own trucks, your own crew, your own name on the invoice. Tanner Sells did that in his twenties. An Oklahoma state legislator submitted a request to the sentencing judge asking for compassion on his behalf. (FACT — reported by The Oklahoman/Yahoo News) THE FACTS OF THE DAY Sells was inside the U.S. Capitol for roughly five minutes. (FACT — reported at sentencing; Raw Story, Tulsa World) He was not charged with vandalism. He was not charged with violence. He was not charged with any assault on an officer. He was identified after someone reported a photo of him to the FBI. (FACT — KFOR) Five minutes. One misdemeanor. That is the whole event. THE LEGAL FIGHT Arrested May 17, 2021. Charged by criminal information August 31, 2021. Plea agreement entered September 27, 2021 — he pleaded guilty to one count, illegally demonstrating inside the Capitol, a misdemeanor. (FACT — DOJ docket; KFOR) On January 18, 2022, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced him to 24 months of probation including 90 days of home detention, 50 hours of community service, a $1,500 fine and $500 restitution. (FACT — DOJ docket; Tulsa World) It was a stiffer sentence than most non-violent Capitol entrants received, and the record shows the judge said so from the bench. He served it. He did the community service. He paid it. On January 20, 2025, the presidential clemency action covering offenses relating to the events at or near the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 issued full pardons across the January 6 docket. (FACT) Tanner Bryce Sells went back to Chandler, Oklahoma, to his construction company and his boy. CASE RECORD Name: Tanner Bryce Sells Hometown: Chandler, Oklahoma Case No.: 1:21-cr-549 Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Arrested: May 17, 2021 | Information: August 31, 2021 | Plea: September 27, 2021 Sentenced: January 18, 2022 — 24 months probation, 90 days home detention, 50 hours community service Clemency: January 20, 2025 DOJ docket: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/sells-tanner-bryce This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.