{"id":5282,"date":"2025-01-24T09:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T09:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/florida-jan-6-defendant-is-arrested-again-after-pardon-from-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T09:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T09:24:09","slug":"florida-jan-6-defendant-is-arrested-again-after-pardon-from-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/florida-jan-6-defendant-is-arrested-again-after-pardon-from-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Jan. 6 defendant is arrested again after pardon from Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A man from Florida whom President Donald Trump<\/a> pardoned for his alleged role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol<\/a> was arrested again Wednesday on a federal gun charge.<\/p>\n

Daniel Charles Ball was being held in pretrial detention in Washington on multiple charges related to the Capitol attack when a U.S. district judge dismissed his charges<\/a>. But Ball remained in federal custody on an outstanding arrest warrant<\/a> from Florida.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors alleged that on Jan. 6, 2021, he entered the Capitol and broke a window shutter, before later throwing a device at law enforcement officers that exploded in the Lower West Terrace tunnel of the building.<\/p>\n

Ball was one of more than 1,500 people charged in the Capitol attack<\/a> — including many who were convicted of violent offenses that day — who received pardons from Trump. The president also commuted the sentences of 14 others and put an end to hundreds of pending Jan. 6 prosecutions, including Ball’s.<\/p>\n

“These people have already served years in prison, and they’ve served them viciously,” Trump said Tuesday after issuing the pardons on his first day back in office. “It’s a disgusting prison. It’s been horrible. It’s inhumane. It’s been a terrible, terrible thing.”<\/p>\n

Trump’s pardons fulfilled one of his chief campaign promises. During the election, he had called Jan. 6 defendants “patriots” and “hostages” who were unfairly targeted by the Justice Department. But his sweeping act of clemency has provoked intense criticism, including from some in his own party<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The gun charges against Ball arose after federal authorities said they <\/strong>found firearms and ammunition in his possession while they were executing a search warrant related to the Jan. 6 case, his attorney Amy Collins told The Washington Post<\/a>. Prosecutors argued in an August 2024 indictment that Ball is not allowed to possess weapons, given prior convictions unrelated to the Capitol attack.<\/p>\n

The gun charges raise questions about how broadly the president’s act of clemency applies. Collins told The Guardian <\/a>that her client will fight the charges, arguing that they are connected to federal prosecutors’ Jan. 6 investigation and are therefore covered under the pardon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Clarissa-Jan Lim<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Clarissa-Jan Lim is a breaking\/trending news blogger for BLN Digital. She was previously a senior reporter and editor at BuzzFeed News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A man from Florida whom President Donald Trump pardoned for his alleged role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was arrested again Wednesday on a federal gun charge. Daniel Charles Ball was being held in pretrial detention in Washington on multiple charges related to the Capitol attack when a U.S. district judge dismissed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}