Nathan Earl Hughes

Nathan Earl Hughes, 35, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, spent nearly two hours in the vicinity of the Lower West Terrace Tunnel during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, a site of some of the day's most violent clashes with police; at about 3:15 p.m. he signaled the crowd forward shouting "C'mon! C'mon!," grabbed at officers' riot shields trying to pull them away, and used his elbow to strike toward an officer holding a shield. He pleaded guilty to three charges — civil disorder, assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers, and impeding passage through the Capitol grounds — with other charges dismissed. U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols sentenced him on 12/16/2024 to 25 months in prison, 36 months of supervised release, and a $5,000 fine.