A New Hampshire man found himself with a 24-month supervised release sentence, inclusive of ten months of home detention, handed down on Aug. 1, 2024, for his actions connected to the Jan. 6 Capitol breach - according to an announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice. Richard Zachary Ackerman, a 22-year-old from Salem, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of civil disorder and a misdemeanor theft of government property, the Justice Department reports state.

The day before the insurrection, Ackerman texted, “Will be going to see the action in these riots/protests” and added “[i]f I get shot down there, just remember that I thought highly of you,” after his initial arrival in Washington D.C. he picked up a U.S. Capitol Police officer's helmet, entered into the thick of the chaos at the Lower West Terrace Tunnel where violent confrontations erupted—acknowledging later that he "got maced really bad," but no matter, he was "right there, in the eye of it" which, in the aftermath, also saw him pilfering what he called a "war trophy" in the form of a SWAT team officer's helmet, his messages exposed, that same trophy later found in his home by the authorities.

United States District Judge Timothy J. Kelly laid out Ackerman's punishment on Thursday, and the young man's journey from New Hampshire to the nation's capital has now culminated in legal repercussions—which the FBI meticulously pieced together before his arrest on June 20, 2023, the official Justice Department release recounts.

More than 1,470 individuals have found themselves ensnared by the law for their parts in the Capitol breach with over 530 of these facing serious charges for assaulting or impeding law enforcement, a stark felony; charges have spanned nearly all 50 states, Ackerman's case—prosecuted by the Department of Justice National Security Division's Counterterrorism Section and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, with valuable assistance from multiple agencies—is just one account in an ongoing story.