Convicted Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump is back behind bars after breaking into family's home and spending 15 minutes ransacking the place

A convicted Jan. 6 rioter ran afoul of the instrumentality again erstwhile helium broke into a Virginia family's location and spent up to 15 minutes ransacking the place, authorities say.

Zachary Alam, 34, was sentenced this week to service 7 years successful situation aft being convicted past autumn of breaking and entering an occupied location and expansive larceny, determination ABC affiliate WRIC reported. The bulk of his condemnation — an further 33 years — was suspended by a Henrico County judge.

On May 8, 2025, astatine astir 11 p.m., Alam entered a location successful Henrico County done a backmost doorway and searched done aggregate rooms, stealing idiosyncratic items, Henrico County constabulary told Law&Crime astatine the time. After astir 10 to 15 minutes inside, Alam was confronted by the household surviving there.

The suspect reportedly gave excuses arsenic to wherefore helium was determination and past left. Police were called to the residence, and officers tracked Alam to a adjacent vicinity and arrested him.

Prosecutors talked during the defendant's sentencing astir the "trauma" that the household endured and the "loss of immoderate of their possessions," per the section outlet.

But Alam was not chartless to instrumentality enforcement officers — astatine slightest national ones.

On Jan. 6, 2021, Alam "was among a mob of rioters illegally gathered connected the westbound tract of Capitol grounds," the Department of Justice (DOJ) said. He made it into the Capitol gathering and led the "mob" seeking to propulsion done U.S. Capitol Police officers.

"I'm going to f— you up," helium yelled aggregate times successful the faces of officers arsenic helium broke solid and added that helium and his chap rioters "need guns," national authorities added.

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Alam was arrested connected Jan. 30, 2021, successful Denver, Pennsylvania. On Sept. 12, 2023, helium was convicted by a Washington, D.C., assemblage of 8 felonies, including assaulting, resisting, oregon impeding definite officers; assaulting, resisting, oregon impeding definite officers utilizing a unsafe weapon; civilian disorder; and demolition of authorities property.

He was sentenced to 8 years successful prison.

However, connected the archetypal time of Donald Trump's instrumentality to the Oval Office connected Jan. 20, 2025, the president pardoned Alam and 1,500 different Jan. 6 defendants.