After being forgiven by President Trump last month, the Jan. 6 riot squad was released from federal prison, and was arrested again in Texas Thursday on an unpaid warrant from a 2016 solicitation charge, authorities said .
36-year-old Andrew Take was captured by Lone Star State authorities after two weeks running allegations of sending sexually explicit messages to a secret police officer pretending to be a 15-year-old girl . According to the Texas Tribune.
He was arrested at 11:30am by the Harris County District Attorney's Flow Concern Team after law enforcement nailed him about his stay at his Leon County home.
The 36-year-old faces charges of minor online solicitation dating back to May 2016.
The Houston native served a six-year sentence after pleading guilty to attacking a police officer with a dangerous weapon during a Capitol violence on January 6, 2021. Congress from proving the outcome of the 2020 election.
He repeatedly unleashed bear spray on officers as he and other mobs tried to access the capital's property during his fight with police. Federal prosecutors said earlier.
At one point, he attacked as the metal whip he was carrying, according to the federal government. He spent about 20 minutes inside the Capitol.
Later that day, Taake boasted about his sleazy behaviour while chatting on a dating app, leading the woman to warn the FBI.
Before the inmate was released from federal custody in Colorado last month, the local government requested that the federal government retain him for a pending warrant, prosecutors said.
The Harris County Sheriff's Office sent a certification warrant to the Prisons Office at the request of a federal agency, but five after Trump issued a wide-ranging pardon in the district, including around 1,500 defendants who played a role in the Capitol riots. He was still released after a day. The lawyer's office said.
Harris County District Attorney Sean Tier called Take a “substantiated child predator.”
He is expected to be transferred to the Harris County Jail in the next few days.
