Jake Maxwell

Jake Maxwell, 22, of Athens, Georgia, banged on and pushed a U.S. Capitol Police officer's riot shield and grabbed a Metropolitan Police Department officer's baton during a breach of police lines in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot. He pleaded not guilty to all charges; following a bench trial, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon found him guilty on 11/14/2023 of felony civil disorder and two misdemeanors, entering a restricted building and disorderly conduct in a restricted building, while acquitting him of two counts of assaulting police and two other misdemeanors. Though prosecutors sought more than four and a half years in prison followed by three years of probation, Judge Leon instead sentenced him on 11/21/2024 to 18 months of probation, with the first 6 months on home detention, a $150 special assessment, and $1,500 in restitution.