Congress will convene on Monday to certify the results of the 2024 election — four years to the day that its last attempt was interrupted by rioters entering the U.S. Capitol.
In the four years since, nine Iowans have been charged with crimes relating to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Federal prosecutors have charged more than 1,500 people with crimes stemming from the attacks, with new charges still being filed.
Here’s a look at the status of the cases against Iowans.
Chad Heathcote
Chad Heathcote was charged Tues. May 5, 2022, with participating in the Jan. 6., 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Heathcote was arrested in Adel Wed. May 4, 2022.
Chad Heathcote, of Adel, was charged in May 2022 with entering and remaining in a restricted building with intent to impede or disrupt an official proceeding and disorderly or disruptive conduct in the U.S. Capitol Buildings.
Security camera footage reviewed by investigators showed Heathcote entering the north side of the Capitol, according to the criminal complaint, and GPS data indicated that his cell phone was in the Capitol that day.
He pleaded guilty in November 2022 to a single charge of parading, demonstrating or picketing in the Capitol.
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Sentence: Three years of probation and 15 days in jail
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Status: Released from custody
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Doug Jensen
The first and most notorious Iowan arrested, 42-year-old Doug Jensen of Des Moines, was seen on video at the head of a crowd pursuing a lone U.S. Capitol Police officer up a flight of stairs inside the building. In subsequent interviews and court filings, Jensen has admitted to being a “true believer” in the QAnon conspiracy theory, which peddled a belief that then-President Donald Trump was executing a secret plan to rid the government and elite society of child sex traffickers.
Doug Jensen, 41, a Des Moines resident convicted in the storming of the U.S. Capitol in 2021, posted photos on Facebook of himself in Washington, D.C., wearing a QAnon conspiracy theory shirt.
A Washington, D.C. jury found Jensen guilty in September 2022 of seven charges ranging from civil disorder to obstruction. His convictions included five felonies and two misdemeanors. The most serious charge against Jensen was obstructing an official proceeding, which could have landed him a sentence of 20 years in prison.
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Sentence: Five years in prison, 36 months of supervised release and $2,000 restitution to the U.S. Capitol architect
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Status: Jensen was released to a halfway house in January 2024. Bureau of Prisons records show as of October 2024 that he is no longer in federal custody.
Daryl Johnson
In this still image from a surveillance video shared by federal prosecutors in court filings, a group of rioters inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, pushes against two police officers, circled in blue, who were attempting to keep an exterior door shut against the mob. Iowan Daryl Johnson and his son, Daniel, circled in purple, are seen near the front of the group.
Daryl Johnson of St. Ansgar was charged in June 2022, along with his son Daniel Johnson, of Austin, Minnnesota.
Prosecutors say the two men were among the crowd to enter the Capitol, although they are not accused of violence or damaging property. Both later posted repeatedly about the riot on Facebook, with Daryl Johnson claiming that any damage from the riot had been caused by “Antifa” and that the crowd had been peaceful until police attacked with tear gas and other munitions.
Both were charged with civil disorder, entering a restricted building, parading or demonstrating in a Capitol building and two disorderly conduct charges.
Daryl Johnson was the first Iowan to plead guilty to charges releated to the Jan. 6 attack. He plead guilty to a felony civil disorder charge and was sentenced in June 2022.
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Sentence: 30 days in prison, $2,000 restutution to the U.S. Capitol architect and a $2,000 fine.
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Status: Released from custody
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Earl Jordan
A still image from a body-worn camera included in court filings shows Earl Jordan of Dickens, Iowa, circled in yellow, and his brother fighting with a Metropolitan Police Department officer during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Earl Jordan, who was charged in October 2024, was the first Iowan to be charged in relation to the riot in more than two years.
Investigators say a combination of anonymous tips and cellphone data helped identify Jordan, of Dickens in northwest Iowa, and his brother, Christopher Jordan of Utah.
The two are charged with assaulting or impeding officers, civil disorder, entering restricted grounds and disorderly conduct.
According to the FBI, the Jordans were together on the west front of the Capitol during the riot, during which a group of officers from the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department tried to move through the crowd to reinforce a police line. Earl Jordan was caught on video elbowing one officer as he brushed past him, then “lunged” toward him and “swiped his hand at (the officer’s) face,” the FBI said.
Later, the brothers can be seen in a crowd fighting with officers who were trying to secure one of the Capitol’s doors. As the officers pulled the door shut, Earl Jordan “picked up a piece of metal fencing and threw it” toward the doorway, according to the FBI.
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Leo Kelly
Leo Christopher Kelly
Cear Rapids resident Leo Kelly has been in and out of federal custody since being arrested less than two weeks after the attacks.
He initially faced two charges, but in December 2021, he was indicted on seven: obstructing an official proceeding, entering a restricted building, parading or demonstrating in a Capitol building, two disorderly conduct charges and two charges for entering certain parts of the Capitol. He was released on bond before his trial.
Kelly was convicted of all charges at trial. In August 2023, he was sentenced to 30 months in prison. However his case was sent back to court on appeal after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors were too broadly interpreting one of the statutes on which Kelly and other rioters were convicted.
Before that could occur, however, the Bureau of Prisons released Kelly from custody. An official later explained to the judge that staff had misunderstood the court’s order to mean Kelly’s sentence was complete, and apologized for the error. A judge reventually resentenced him to time served.
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Sentence: Kelly was stentenced to 30 months, which was reduced to time served (about 11 months) after an appeal. He must also serve 12 months of supervised release and pay a $5,000 fine, $500 in restitution and other court costs.
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Status: Released from custody
Kenny Rader
Kenneth Rader, of Sioux City, was charged with entering the U.S. Capitol in Washington D. C. during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. This security camera footage shows him inside the U.S. Capitol.
Surveillance video shows Kenneth Rader, of Sioux City, inside the Capitol for three minutes during the riot, wearing a blue Trump 2020 sweatshirt as he entered through a door in the building’s Senate wing. After looking around, chatting with a few people inside the building and picking up some shards of glass and plaster as souvenirs, Rader left the building. A relative reported him to the FBI shortly after the riot, according to court records.
Rader pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.
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Sentence: 90-day jail sentence and 36 months of probation
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Status: Released from custody
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Deborah Sandoval
A photo reportedly shared by Deborah Sandoval after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, showing her among the protestors outside. Capitol surveillance cameras later captured her moving through the building, according to court documents.
Deborah Sandoval, a mother from Ankeny, was arrested in February 2021 along with her son.
On the day her trial was scheduled to start in December 2022, Sandoval instead pleaded guilty to a single charge of entering a restricted building. She had faced a dozen charges.
Once in D.C., Sandoval traveled from the pro-Trump rally to the Capitol, entering through a door that had already been forced open. Another rioter captured video of her shouting “get her a– out here,” referring to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She remained in the building for approximately 24 minutes.
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Sentence: 5 months in prison
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Status: Released from custody
Salvador Sandoval
Salvador Sandoval Jr., in the grey hood, is allegedly seen grappling with police officers during the Jan. 6 invasion of the U.S. Capitol building in this surveillance video image filed in court.
Salvador Sandoval of Ankeny and Deborah Sandoval’s son, is currently serving the longest sentence handed down to an Iowan in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021 attack.
He was accused of repeatedly brawling with police officers inside the Capitol. According to prosecutors, after entering the rotunda, he and another rioter ripped a riot shield out of a police officer’s hands and Sandoval then continued to shove and push at other officers, at one point nearly knocking down an officer who was trying to protect fallen rioters from being trampled.
Sandoval tried unsuccessfully to take another officer’s shield, and eventually was forced out of the building after about 15 minutes inside, prosecutors said.
A judge found him guilty of six felony charges, including civil disorder, obstructing an official proceeding and assaulting or resisting officers, as well as a number of misdemeanors.
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Status: In federal prison in Minnesota until October 2028
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Kyle Young
In this video screenshot included in court filings by federal prosecutors, Iowan Kyle Young can be seen in a throng of people grappling with a D.C. Metropolitan police officer during the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
A federal judge called Kyle Young a “one-man wrecking ball that day,” while sentencing the Redfield resident for his actions on Jan. 6, 2021.
Young was arrested in April 2021 and is one of several people charged in the assault of D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, who was dragged into the crowd, beaten and shocked with a stun gun while defending one of the entrances to the Capitol during the riot.
He faced more than a dozen federal charges, but agreed in May 2022 to plead guilty to a single charge of assaulting, resisting or impeding an officer.
Young admitted in his guilty plea that he grabbed Fanone’s arm during the melee, preventing him from reaching his radio or sidearm as he was assaulted.
Fanone had a heart attack after his assault and has since retired from the department. He took the stand to describe the consequences of his injuries.
“The assault on me by Mr. Young cost me my career,” he said. “It cost me my faith in law enforcement and many of the institutions I dedicated two decades of my life to serving.”
Video shows Young pointing a strobe light at officers, hurling a heavy speaker toward them, and striking at them with a pole in what the judge described as “15 to 20 minutes of active, enthusiastic participation in the violence inside.”
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Status: In federal prison in Arkansas until June 2027.
Will Donald Trump pardon Jan. 6th rioters?
President-elect Donald Trump has expressed support for those who participated in preceding rallies and the attack on the Capitol.
On the campaign trail, he referred to those who had been convicted as “political prisoner(s)” and vowed to sign pardons on his first day in office.
In interviews since being elected, Trump has indicated there may be some exceptions.
This article originally appeared on Des Moines Register: What happened to the 9 Iowans charged after the Jan. 6 attack?