Jan. 6 defendant who got busted with illegal guns and Army grenades gets the Trump pardon treatment

A Jan. 6 suspect and Oath Keepers subordinate from Florida who was linked to an explosives-laden RV that was allegedly brought to the Washington, D.C., country had a bid of abstracted convictions — for possessing amerciable firearms and U.S. Army grenades — officially vacated and dismissed by a national justice Wednesday successful the Sunshine State arsenic portion of President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 pardon order.

Jeremy Brown, a erstwhile U.S. Army Green Beret who was fixed a seven-year condemnation for the weapons and grenades case, gained enactment from Trump’s Justice Department successful precocious February, with national prosecutors telling U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday that “based connected consultation” with DOJ enactment it was the presumption of the United States that the offenses Brown was accused of — including possessing a modified AR-15 short-barreled firearm and sawed-off shotgun, some unregistered and owned illegally — were “intended to beryllium covered” by Trump’s pardon order.

Merryday, a George H.W. Bush appointee, agreed and connected Wednesday vacated Brown’s convictions with an authoritative order successful the Middle District of Florida Tampa Division. The determination came aft the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals relinquished jurisdiction successful March to the territory tribunal to “consider and regularisation upon” the United States’ question to vacate and disregard the explosives and weapon convictions against Brown, who was sentenced successful 2023 and released from situation successful February.

“The United States’ question is granted, the judgement is vacated, and the 2nd superseding indictment — and, derivatively, perforce the pardon, some the superseding indictment and the indictment — are dismissed with prejudice,” Merryday said. “The clerk indispensable adjacent the case.”

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For his Jan. 6 case, Brown was accused of “unlawfully and knowingly” entering and remaining successful a restricted gathering and grounds astatine the U.S. Capitol, according to tribunal documents. He was charged successful Washington, D.C., national tribunal with misdemeanor trespassing and disorderly conduct, with photos showing Brown donning subject gear.

In Florida, Brown was recovered blameworthy aft a assemblage proceedings successful December 2022 of possession of unregistered short-barreled firearms, possession of unregistered explosive grenades, improper retention of explosive grenades, and retention of classified information.

According to grounds presented astatine his trial, the FBI executed an apprehension and hunt warrant astatine Brown’s residence successful Tampa connected Sept. 30, 2021, and recovered an unregistered AR-15-style firearm — modified to person a 10-inch tube — successful Brown’s bedroom. Agents besides allegedly recovered the sawed-off shotgun connected a sofa wrong of Brown’s recreational vehicle, which was parked adjacent his home.

“Inside a briefcase adjacent to the shotgun, agents recovered a classified Trip Report that Brown had authored soon earlier helium retired from the U.S. Special Forces,” prosecutors said successful an April 2023 property release. “Inside the chamber of that aforesaid RV, agents recovered an ammunition vest containing 2 M-67 fragmentation grenades hidden successful the pockets. U.S. Army records confirmed that the grenades had primitively been successful the possession of the U.S. Army.”

Prosecutors didn’t supply a circumstantial crushed successful their February notice of filing Brown’s certificate of pardon for wherefore his weapons and explosives convictions were being thrown out, conscionable that it was “based connected consultation with Department of Justice leadership.”

Attempts by Law&Crime to scope the DOJ for remark Wednesday were unsuccessful.

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