"A Henrico jury subsequently found Alam guilty in October of charges of breaking and entering into an occupied home as well as grand larceny. And on Thursday, the county circuit court judge Randall G Johnson sentenced him to two decades in prison on each charge, though he suspended the entirety of the grand larceny punishment and 13 years of the breaking and entering sentence, case records show. Alam was also told to serve 20 years' p"
"Henrico county, Virginia, officers alleged that Alam broke into a home just outside the state capital of Richmond on 8 May 2025. After the family living there encountered him, he claimed to be at the home to fix the internet connection, and he fled with electronics and jewelry, prosecutors later said, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch newspaper. Police called out to investigate the break-in then found Alam in an adjacent neighborhood, identified him as the intruder and arrested him the next day."
"But he was unconditionally pardoned along with 1,500 others of his fellow Trump supporters on the first day the Republican president retook office in January 2025, after winning the previous November's election against his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris. Zachary Alam, 34, had previously drawn one of the stiffest prison sentences eight years for his hand in the violence carried out at the US Capitol in Washington DC by supporters of Trump after his first presidency ended in defeat to Joe Biden after the 2020 White House election."
"The judge who sentenced Alam after he was declared guilty in that case mentioned how officers regarded him as by far the loudest, the most combative and the most violent of the rioters at the Capitol that day. He went on to spend nearly four years in prison."
Zachary Alam, previously convicted for involvement in the January 6, 2021 US Capitol attack and later pardoned in January 2025, was found guilty of burglary in Virginia. Henrico County police alleged that on 8 May 2025 he broke into a home near Richmond, claiming he was there to fix the internet connection. After the family encountered him, he fled with electronics and jewelry. Officers located and arrested him the next day. A Henrico jury convicted him in October on charges of breaking and entering into an occupied home and grand larceny. Randall G Johnson sentenced him to prison terms on both counts, with the grand larceny sentence suspended and the breaking and entering sentence partially suspended, resulting in seven years to serve.
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