{"id":635,"date":"2026-05-10T10:43:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=635"},"modified":"2026-05-10T10:43:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:43:35","slug":"pardoned-january-6-rioter-sentenced-to-seven-years-for-virginia-burglary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=635","title":{"rendered":"Pardoned January 6 rioter sentenced to seven years for Virginia burglary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zachary Alam spent four years in jail for his role in the Capitol attack before Trump pardoned him in 2025<\/p>\n<p>A convicted participant in the 6 January 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-capitol-breach\">US Capitol attack<\/a> who was pardoned at the start of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s second presidency has been ordered to serve seven years in prison after a jury found him guilty of committing a burglary in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/virginia\">Virginia<\/a> in May 2025.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/20\/january-6-rioter-arrested-burglary\">Zachary Alam<\/a>, 34, had previously drawn one of the stiffest prison sentences \u2013 eight years \u2013 for his hand in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-capitol-breach\">the violence carried out at the US Capitol<\/a> in Washington DC by supporters of Trump after his first presidency ended in defeat to Joe Biden after the 2020 White House election.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/10\/pardoned-january-6-rioter-sentenced-virginia-burglary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zachary Alam spent four years in jail for his role in the Capitol attack before Trump pardoned him in 2025 A convicted participant in the 6 January 2021 US Capitol &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=635\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}