A Florida man launched from jail after President Trump pardoned Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot prisoners is again behind bars Wednesday on unrelated federal gun fees from practically two years in the past.
The arrest warrant for Daniel Charles Ball, 39, was filed within the US District Court docket for the Center District of Florida final August, on fees of possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon, and court docket filings present he was arrested on Wednesday — in the future after a slew of fees associated to his alleged involvement within the Capitol riot had been dismissed.
Ball’s arrest was first reported by Politico.
Ball, who has earlier felony convictions for home battery and resisting legislation enforcement with violence, had been accused of a dozen fees associated to the storming of the Capitol, together with assaulting cops with a lethal weapon and utilizing hearth or an explosive to commit a felony.
The Homosassa, Fla., resident was arrested by native legislation enforcement officers in Might of 2023 for his alleged function within the riot.
Ball had been denied bail and was being held in pretrial detention in Washington, DC, as he awaited trial within the Jan. 6 case.
He was launched Tuesday after his riot fees had been dismissed by US District Decide Rudolph Contreras in response to Trump’s pardon.
Ball’s case was one in all about 450 Jan. 6 circumstances nonetheless pending to go earlier than the court docket.
On the marketing campaign path, the president had pledged to pardon the greater than 1,580 defendants charged in connection to the riot on his first day in workplace.
Trump, 78, issued roughly 1,500 pardons for Jan. 6 prisoners on the White Home on Monday, in between Inauguration Day festivities, finishing his Day 1 promise.
Together with the pardons, Trump commuted the sentences of 14 different Jan. 6 prisoners, together with Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, who was serving an 18-year jail sentence after being convicted of seditious conspiracy and different crimes.
Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) introduced Wednesday that he’ll set up a brand new congressional choose subcommittee — headed by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) — to research the occasions main as much as the Capitol riot.
“Home Republicans are happy with our work up to now in exposing the false narratives peddled by the politically motivated January 6 Choose Committee throughout the 117th Congress, however there may be nonetheless extra work to be finished,” Johnson stated in a press release.
“We’re establishing this Choose Subcommittee to proceed our efforts to uncover the complete fact that’s owed to the American individuals.”
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