Jan. 6 Rioter Nabbed With Explosives Near Obama Home

A conspiracy-minded Donald Trump supporter who stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6 was arrested Thursday near the home of former President Barack Obama, a law enforcement official told Kent Nishimura and Ryan J. Reilly of NBC News.

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The Associated Press (AP) also reported that US Navy veteran Taylor Taranto, 37, was found with weapons and materials to create an explosive device, though one had not been built, one of the officials said.

Taranto, who was identified by online sleuths in August 2021 and faces a lawsuit from the widow of a Washington police officer who died by suicide, recently showed up at the sentencing of David Walls-Kaufman, his co-defendant in the lawsuit.

The lawsuit accuses both men of being involved in an assault on Officer Jeffrey Smith on Jan. 6, 2021, which they have both denied. While Walls-Kaufman was arrested last year and has already been sentenced, Taylor had not been charged.

In recent weeks, Taranto has been living in a van near the Washington jailhouse and has wondered in online posts why he had not yet been arrested over Jan. 6.

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