He ultimately plead guilty to one misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. In exchange for Hiles' guilty plea, the Department of Justice dropped the remaining three misdemeanor charges against him.  He was given two years probation.

However, Hiles says there's a lot more to the story that he could not tell the public until he was officially pardoned by Donald Trump last week. 

The boat captain tells a local NBC affiliate, WAVY-TV 10 that he has video proof of capitol police acting to incite the riots.  At least 9 minutes of his video is posted to WAVY-TV 10, though it appears to be heavily edited.

"I have several videos from Jan. 6 — I have over an hour of video that I shot on Jan. 6...It shows all sorts of things. I have videos that show Capitol Police inciting inciting riots by shooting. They were walking through the crowds with a super soaker-style water gun that was full of bear spray."

"I have [on video] a man who who had been sprayed by a Capitol Police officer...I'm standing right beside him and he walks up to the Capitol Police officer and says, 'Hey, why did you spray me with with pepper spray?' The guy … said he was a Vietnam veteran and he's never done anything but serves the country."

Not only that, Hiles also asserts that federal agents threatened him with long term imprisonment if he took those videos to the media or posted them to the internet.

"It was what I was told in August of 2021...And in a Zoom meeting with Brandon Merriman, who is the special agent in charge of Jan. 6, and he's the guy you saw do the interview about 60 Minutes about Jan. 6.

In a Zoom meeting with Brandon Merriman in August of 2021, he told me that if I go to the media and start talking about Jan. 6, if my videos find the media or the Internet, that I would, quote, 'spend the rest of my life in prison.' I asked for what [and] he said. 'I'll find something.'" 

An attorney for Hiles believes that this exchange with the special agent was recorded, which means it could now be accessed by the Trump Administration.