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Anna Betts

January 6 rioter who was pardoned by Trump arrested for child sexual abuse

people pushing police with a gate
Violent insurrections loyal to Donald Trump break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington on 6 January 2021. Photograph: Julio Cortez/AP

A man who took part in the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol and was pardoned by Donald Trump earlier this year has been arrested on multiple child sexual abuse charges in Florida, according to local authorities.

The man, identified as 44-year-old Andrew Paul Johnson, was taken into custody in August in Tennessee and extradited to Florida where, according to arrest records, he faces charges of lewd and lascivious child molestation of a child under 12, lewd and lascivious child molestation of a child between 12 and 16, as well as lewd and lascivious exhibition, and transmission of material harmful to a minor.

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