Record at a Glance
- Category
- Jan 6th
- Age in NPR record
- 37
- Location
- Hancock, Michigan
- Charges
- Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building; Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing a Capitol Building
- Case status
- Pleaded guilty; Dismissed in part or full; Sentenced
- Presidential action
- Pardon
Case Summary
A court affidavit says a former grade-school classmate sent photos posted on Ashley Aho’s social media accounts to the FBI taken inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, showing her and Jeremy Sorvisto, whom she identifies online as her fiancé. Posts included in the affidavit show Sorvisto and Aho in the backseat of a car traveling from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to Washington, D.C., captioned with the hashtag “#trump2020.” An FBI examination of Facebook records from Karl Dresch, another defendant from a nearby Michigan town, revealed someone using Sorvisto’s Facebook account sent Dresch a video on Jan. 8, 2021, titled “Ashli [Babbitt] ALIVE and WELL,” which contends the shooting that killed the Air Force veteran during the riot was staged. Instant Messenger records from Aho’s account included in the affidavit show the couple were nervous on Jan. 21, 2021, after Dresch’s arrest. "Every time we hear someone outside we freak tf out,” Aho wrote. “Last one straight says fb friend turned him in. … idk man I might get f**ked.” Publicly available court records do not indicate that Aho is facing charges.
Case History
Sorvisto pleaded Guilty to one charge: Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing a Capitol Building. The other charges were dismissed. Sentenced 12/15/2021 to 30 days in jail; $500 in restitution; Special Assessment of $10. Sorvisto received a full pardon on January 20, 2025
Sources
- Primary Documentation
NPR Jan. 6 Defendant DatabaseNPR - Primary Documentation
Underlying court recordCourt record linked by NPR
Case summary, charges, procedural updates and image are drawn from the NPR Jan. 6 archive snapshot dated 2026-09-25 unless otherwise indicated.