
A military veteran and former January 6 defendant has been convicted of charges that he illegally possessed guns and ammunition in his van when he was arrested near President Barack Obama’s home in the nation's capital.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols also convicted Taylor Taranto of recording himself making a hoax threat to bomb a government building in Maryland. The judge decided the case without a jury after a bench trial that started last week in Washington, D.C.