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Federal authorities arrest Nolan Bernard Cooke in a Texas Jan. 6 case
Federal authorities arrested Nolan Bernard Cooke, then 22, of Savoy, Texas, in a Jan. 6 Capitol breach case. The case involved civil disorder tied to the Capitol breach. NPR records that Cooke later pleaded guilty to civil disorder, was sentenced on June 10, 2022 to 12 months and one day in prison and three years of supervised release, and later received a full pardon on January 20, 2025. NPR's public Jan. 6 archive was checked against the linked CourtListener / RECAP record before insertion.