A day after being pardoned by President Donald Trump, a Florida man who was charged with storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, was detained once more.
Politicoreports Trump pardoned almost 1,500 individuals accused in the Capitol riots, and Daniel Ball, 39, was released from pretrial detention in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday after his felony assault charges were dropped. Ball has been charged with violent crimes, such as hurling deadly weapons at a line of Capitol security guards and an explosive device that confused and deafened officers in the Lower West End Tunnel.
Ball, however, was back in jail on Wednesday due to a different matter.
ABC News reports Ball was taken into custody again on two-year-old federal firearms charges. He was prosecuted as a felon in Florida for illegally possessing a firearm, according to an arrest warrant.
Ball, of Homosassa, Florida, has been convicted of at least three felonies in the past, including two convictions in October 2021 for resisting law enforcement and battery on a law enforcement officer, and one in 2017 for domestic violence battery by strangling. Due to his suspected involvement in the Capitol disturbances, he was taken into custody in May 2023.
More than 200 persons who entered guilty pleas to attacking officers during the siege—which resulted in at least 140 officers being injured—were also pardoned by Trump. Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes were among the notable individuals pardoned. Both were found guilty of seditious conspiracy against the United States for trying to thwart the peaceful handover of power to President Joe Biden following the 2020 election.
Ball’s case was one of over 450 that were still pending, according to the New York Post.
On Wednesday, Trump defended the pardon, claiming the sentences were exorbitant and absurd.
Trump stated, “We felt a pardon would be appropriate because these are people who genuinely love our country.”