Law & Crime reports:
Thanks to President Donald Trump, a Texas man who beat police officers with a metal whip and showered them with bear spray during the Jan. 6 riot had his more than six-year prison sentence ended. But 36-year-old Andrew Taake may be headed back to jail anyway. Taake made headlines at the time of his arrest because he was turned in by a woman he met on the dating app Bumble — and for the violence he inflicted on cops.
At the time of the riot, Taake was on pretrial release for a 2016 charge of online solicitation of a minor out of Harris County in Houston. Now that his federal case is over, state prosecutors have picked up the solicitation case once again. A Harris County District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman told Law&Crime that the agency has issued an arrest warrant for Taake. He remains at large as of Monday morning.
Read the full article. Last week it was reported that a different pardoned rioter was still in prison on child porn charges.
Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump wanted on child solicitation charge for allegedly trying to meet up with minor after ‘multiple explicit messages’ https://t.co/7nGQp01BX6
— Law & Crime (@lawcrimenews) January 27, 2025
JUST IN: Andrew Quentin Taake, 32, is charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers and obstruction of an official proceeding. He is accused of using pepper spray on police and a whip-like weapon against them. @FBIHouston
Full story: https://t.co/sL7toWgiQE
— KHOU 11 News Houston (@KHOU) July 23, 2021