WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s blanket pardon of virtually every defendant convicted in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol building included two Copper Country residents.

Karl Dresch and Jeremy Sorvisto had been sentenced in 2021 for their participation. Another defendant, Adam Mancuso of Laurium, was charged last September.

All three local defendants initially faced the same four misdemeanor charges common to all Jan. 6 cases. Dresch’s charges also included an additional felony charge of obstruction of an official proceeding.

On his first day in office, Trump issued an executive order pardoning more than 1,400 people convicted on crimes related to the storming of the Capitol building on Jan. 6. He also commuted the sentences of 14 other members of far right groups, including 10 who had been convicted on felony charges of seditious conspiracy.

The convictions of the Copper Country defendants were on misdemeanor charges. Dresch, of Calumet, had been sentenced to six months in jail — effectively time served — in August 2021 on a charge of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. He had been in custody since his arrest in January 2021.

Sorvisto, of Hancock, was sentenced in December 2021 to 30 days jail.

Trump’s executive order also directed the attorney general to pursue dismissal with prejudice — meaning the claim cannot be refiled in the same court — of all pending indictments against any Jan. 6 defendants whose cases are still proceeding through the system. That includes Mancuso, on whose behalf the federal government filed a motion to dismiss his case on Jan. 21. No ruling has been made yet on the motion.