Record at a Glance
- Category
- Jan 6th
- Age in NPR record
- 33
- Location
- Florida
- Charges
- Civil Disorder; Obstruction of an Official Proceeding and Aiding and Abetting; Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers Using a Dangerous Weapon; Destruction of Government Property; Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Engaging in Physical Violence in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building; Act of Physical Violence in the Capitol Grounds or Buildings; Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building
- Case status
- Pleaded guilty; Dismissed in part or full; Sentenced
- Presidential action
- Pardon
Case Summary
“Things got a little crazy,” Mitchell Todd Gardner II allegedly told someone he met a few weeks after the U.S. Capitol riot. According to a criminal complaint filed against him, Gardner told this person that he had been at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. That unnamed person, court papers say, called an FBI tip line and identified Gardner as one of the rioters. Prosecutors say they have photographs and videos that show Gardner in a red Trump hat with some sort of canister in his hand. The images allegedly show him standing on a window ledge on the Senate side of the Capitol. He’s seen on video, court papers say, damaging a window with the canister and then spraying U.S. Capitol Police with its contents. Prosecutors described Gardner as having taken a “defacto leadership role” in the melee that day at the Capitol.
Case History
Gardner pleaded Guilty to three charges: Civil Disorder; Obstruction of an Official Proceeding and Aiding and Abetting; Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers Using a Dangerous Weapon. The other charges are dismissed. Sentenced on 3/16/2023 to 55 months of incarceration; 36 months of supervised release; 100 hours of community service; $3,500 restitution; $300 special assessment. Gardner 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.