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Kyle Travis Coltonpardon

Jan 20, 2025

Updated Feb 12, 2026
Net worth
Unknown
Crimes
january 6, post pardon
Convicted of
Disorderly conduct; disruptive conduct in restricted building or grounds (Jan. 6 Capitol breach)
Original sentence
Pardoned before sentencing in Jan. 6 case
Time served
Before pardon

Background

Kyle Travis Colton, of Citrus Heights, California, was among six Sacramento-area residents pardoned by President Trump in January 2025 for offenses related to the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack. He had pleaded guilty in the District of Columbia to disorderly conduct and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds and was pardoned just days before his scheduled sentencing. In a separate federal case, he was later convicted of receiving child sexual abuse material and sentenced to 80 months in prison.

The Case

January 6. Colton pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds in connection with the Capitol breach. According to court documents and the FBI, he was identified in Capitol CCTV refusing to leave the Rotunda and was present in a line of rioters engaging with law enforcement. At one point he grabbed a flagpole that was being used to assault an officer and handed it back to the attacker. He had also reportedly bragged to seatmates on an airplane about participating in the riot and showed them pictures. The pardon removed his accountability for that conduct and spared him the sentence he would have received.

Child sexual abuse material. After the pardon, Colton was arrested in a separate investigation. A law enforcement search of his home uncovered what prosecutors described as copious images and videos depicting graphic sexual abuse of young children, stored on his computer desktop, along with bookmarks to known child pornography sites. The material was downloaded between July 2022 and December 2023. In July 2025 a federal jury convicted him of one count of receiving child pornography. Receiving and possessing child sexual abuse material perpetuates the exploitation of children and sustains demand for abuse imagery. In October 2025 he was sentenced in Sacramento federal court to 80 months in prison and was immediately remanded; he was the only one of the six Sacramento-area Jan. 6 pardon recipients later charged with another federal offense.

The Pardon

On January 20, 2025, President Trump granted Colton a full pardon under the proclamation covering certain offenses relating to the events at or near the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The pardon was issued days before Colton was scheduled to be sentenced in the Jan. 6 case.

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