On Monday, President Donald Trump granted clemency to roughly 1,500 defendants accused and convicted of crimes connected to the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The executive order impacts nine individuals with direct Montana ties. This year marks the fourth anniversary when a crowd of rioters supporting President-elect Donald Trump sought to protest or prevent the certification of the 2020 election results, which Trump lost to President Biden.Since the attack, more than 1,570 people have been accused of felony and misdemeanor crimes including assaulting police, a few cases of seditious conspiracy, unlawful parading and demonstrating, and other charges. Of those cases, nine individuals have direct Montana ties. One case founder of the Oath Keepers Stewart Rhodes was commuted, seven were given pardons and one case is pending with instructions to the U.S. Attorney General to seek dismissal. Stewart Rhodes - Sentence Commuted Elmer Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, is one of the most prominent Jan. convictions. Rhodes was disbarred as an attorney in Montana. His estranged family still resides in the Treasure State and his son Dakota Adams ran as a Democrat for the Montana Legislature last election.Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy in November 2022 and was serving an 18-year prison sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland.The prosecution during the trial alleged Rhodes and his co-defendants planned to use force to prevent Congress from formally certifying President Bidens 2020 presidential election victory.Rhodes was one of fourteen Jan. 6 cases in which President Trump commuted the sentence. Isaac Sturgeon - PardonedIn September 2023, Isaac Sturgeon was sentenced to six years in prison after being convicted of more than a half dozen charges including assaulting police. The Dillon native was captured on an officer's body-worn camera outside the capitol. In the video, he can be seen as part of a group that picked up a metal barricade and shoved it into a group of D.C. Metropolitan police officers.Sturgeon was serving his sentence at a Federal Correctional Institution in Elkton, Ohio. Frank Dahlquist - U.S. Attorney General instructed to dismiss the caseAccording to court documents, former Helena rural fire chief Frank Dahlquist is accused of pepper spraying and assaulting police at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.Investigators submitted pictures and video they say show Dahlquist, with his face covered, allegedly spraying an orange-colored chemical agent directly into the face of a police officer. Prosecutors also allege he was captured on a body-worn camera allegedly assaulting another police officer.Dahlquist has entered a plea of not guilty and his case is scheduled to go to trial on Jan. 27, 2025. President Trump on Jan. 20, 2025, directed the U.S. Attorney General to pursue dismissal of all pending indictments against individuals for their conduct related to the events at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. Jerod and Joshua Hughes - PardonedAccording to the Department of Justice, East Helena brothers Joshua and Jerod Hughes were some of the first rioters to breach the Capitol that day. The men were at the front of the crowd as it moved through the Capitol. Pictures and video showed them encountering Officer Eugene Goodman who led rioters away from the Senate Chambers, which was still being evacuated at the time. Video of when rioters first entered the U.S. Capitol on Jan.6On Jan. 11, 2021, the Hughes brothers voluntarily turned themselves into Helena Police after seeing news reports that the FBI was trying to identify them. Both brothers pleaded guilty to Obstruction of an Official Proceeding and Aiding and Abetting.Jerod Hughes was sentenced to 3 years and 10 months in detention. Joshua Hughes was sentenced to 3 years and 2 months, although that sentence was later reduced to 2 years and 9 months. Hank Muntzer - PardonedHank Muntzer of Dillon was sentenced to 2 years in prison for his actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.In February, Munzter was convicted of felony civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding. However, the obstruction of an official proceeding charge was later dismissed following a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court.Muntzer was sentenced to 24 months in prison and 12 months of supervised release. He surrendered himself to a detention facility in California on Jan 3, 2025. Boyd Camper - PardonedBoyd Camper, formerly from the Missoula area, was sentenced to 60 days in prison for his action during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.Camper signed a plea agreement in August 2021 admitting to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in Capitol buildings. Patrick OBrien - PardonedPatrick OBrien was pictured inside the Capitol for around a half-hour, including in front of former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosis office and the entrance to the SenateO'Brien entered into a plea agreement with the government and pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in the Capitol Building. He was sentenced to 36 months probation, 90 days home detention, 100 hours of community service and will need to pay $500 in restitution.Andrew Cavanaugh - PardonedAndrew Michael Cavanaugh pleaded guilty to misdemeanor parading, demonstrating and picketing in the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. He was sentenced to 24 months of probation and 60 hours of community service.