Pardoned January 6 rioter faces unresolved charges of soliciting a minor

Andrew Taake, 36, assailed police with bear spray at the US Capitol and in 2016 was charged with a third-degree felony

A convicted US Capitol attacker who was freed from prison by Donald Trump's decision to pardon essentially every participant in the January 6 uprising must now grapple with an unresolved charge of having solicited a minor.

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.