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.
Taake later boasted about those crimes while chatting with a woman on the Bumble dating app and he was arrested in July 2021 after she reported him to the FBI.