A Florida man whose Jan. 6 charges were dropped as part of President Trump’s sweeping clemency grant this week was arrested on Wednesday on pending weapons charges, court documents show.
The man, Daniel Charles Ball, 39, was arrested on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., according to a warrant filed with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida and based on an indictment handed up last August.
The indictment in Florida had charged Mr. Ball with possession of a firearm or ammunition by a convicted felon. The materials were seized during a search of his home in early May 2023 while he was being investigated in the Jan. 6 case.
That indictment mentioned that Mr. Ball had previously been convicted of domestic battery by strangulation in 2017, as well as resisting law enforcement with violence and battery on a law enforcement officer, both in October 2022.
Mr. Ball was indicted in May 2023 on felony charges related to the Capitol attack, including using an explosive device to assault officers in a confined space. He had been held in jail in Washington, D.C. pending trial since then.
Prosectors in the Jan. 6 case had asked that he be held, saying he presented an “ongoing danger” specifically to law enforcement, according to the government memorandum. They cited footage from body cameras worn by officers and other video evidence as part of their allegations that Mr. Ball used the device, the documents show.
The Florida warrant was executed on Wednesday after Judge Rudolph Contreras of U.S. District Court ordered that Mr. Ball’s Jan. 6 case be dismissed on Tuesday, court records show.
Amy C. Collins, Mr. Ball’s lawyer, said he had an initial appearance on Wednesday and entered a plea of not guilty. “He never actually was released from detention,” she said in a telephone interview on Thursday.
She said that the charges should be dismissed after President Trump’s action on Monday.
President Trump on Monday issued pardons and commutations for people charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and directed the Justice Department to dismiss “all pending indictments.”
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