BREAKING: Jan 6 Protestor Found Dead After Being Charge With Misdemeanor, Claiming Suicide

Nejourde Meacham, a resident of Utah who traveled to Washington, D.C., for the “Save America” event on January 5, was charged with four misdemeanors as a result of his brief entrance inside the structure. Following a voluntary interview with the FBI, Meacham and his uncle Odin Meacham were both detained in May.

After the interview, Meacham was recognized in CCTV images taken inside and outside the facility, according to an affidavit (below) written by an FBI agent. Before entering an open door, the 22-year-old was initially seen on the Northwest steps of the US Capitol. Meacham then strolled aimlessly through the facility for a while while waving a “Trump won” banner before being calmly led outside.

The FBI agent’s statement of facts reads:

“Based on the foregoing, I submit there is probable cause to believe that NEJOURDE MEACHAM violated 18 U.S.C. § 1752(a)(1) and (2), which makes it a crime to (1) knowingly enter or remain in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority to do; and (2) knowingly, and with intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions, engage in disorderly or disruptive conduct in, or within such proximity to, any restricted building or grounds when, or so that, such conduct, in fact, impedes or disrupts the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions; or attempts or conspires to do so.

For purposes of Section 1752 of Title 18, a “restricted building” includes a posted, cordoned off, or otherwise restricted area of a building or grounds where the President or other person protected by the Secret Service, including the Vice President, is or will be temporarily visiting; or any building or grounds so restricted in conjunction with an event designated as a special event of national significance.

I submit there is also probable cause to believe that NEJOURDE MEACHAM violated 40 U.S.C. § 5104(e)(2)(D & G), which makes it a crime to willfully and knowingly: (D) utter loud, threatening, or abusive language, or engage in disorderly or disruptive conduct, at any place in the Grounds or in any of the Capitol Buildings with the intent to impede, disrupt, or disturb the orderly conduct of a session of Congress or either House of Congress, or the orderly conduct in that building of a hearing before, or any deliberations of, a committee of Congress or either House of Congress; and (G) parade, demonstrate, or picket in any of the Capitol Buildings.”

Nejourde Meacham, arrested over two years after the January 6 Capitol protest, has passed away. Independent reporter Julie Kelly reported that Meacham took his own life. Meacham is not the first January 6 defendant to die by suicide after being charged by the Biden DOJ. In 2021, Matthew Perna committed suicide after federal prosecutors planned to hit him with terrorism charges.