(The Hill) – On Tuesday, Daniel Ball’s lawsuit related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol was formally dismissed after he received a full pardon from President Trump. But by Wednesday, Ball was arrested again on pending federal firearms charges.
A Florida man is the first to face additional legal trouble after a sweeping pardon was granted to those who rioted at the Capitol as lawmakers sought to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election. They are believed to be participants in the January 6 riot. His arrest warrant is also the first to be publicly filed in Washington, D.C., since Trump took office as president.
Ball was indicted in May 2023 on 12 charges related to the Capitol attack, including felonies of assaulting a police officer with a dangerous weapon, resisting, obstructing and using an explosive device.
Prosecutors said the suspect worked with other rioters to “forcefully push” police outside the entrance to Lower West Terrace, but when that attempt failed, he threw an explosive device at the entrance. Ta. An FBI affidavit says 25 officers were killed in the explosion.
His trial was originally scheduled to begin on January 6, but a judge invalidated that date in October.
Mr. Trump’s new indictment does not mention those charges, which Mr. Trump has erased from his record. But Ball’s two previous convictions — domestic violence by strangulation in June 2017 and assault and resisting law enforcement by force in October 2021 — are detailed in the indictment. has been done. He is charged with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon in or about May 2023.
Mr. Ball is one of more than 1,500 defendants whose charges were dismissed on January 6 by Mr. Trump on Monday in one of the first acts of his second term as president. A small number of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders were also aware that their sentences would be commuted as part of the broader amnesty package.
