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The Guardian - US
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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Pardoned January 6 rioter faces unresolved charges of soliciting a minor

Trump supporters clash with police and security forces
Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as people try to storm the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 in Washington, DC. Photograph: Brent Stirton/Getty Images

A convicted US Capitol attacker who was freed from prison by Donald Trump’s decision to pardon essentially every participant in the January 6 uprising must now grapple with an unresolved charge of having solicited a minor.

At the center of the case in question is Andrew Taake, 36, of Houston, Texas, who assailed police with bear spray and a metal whip when a mob of Trump supporters descended on the Capitol in early 2021 in a desperate attempt to keep him in office at the end of his first presidency, according to prosecutors.

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