GOP Crime Blotter
Just tourists with flags. Should be pardoned.
A Houston man who was reported to the FBI after discussing his involvement in the U.S. Capitol insurrection on a dating app was sentenced to more than six years in prison this week for assaulting police officers with bear spray and a whip-like weapon.
Andrew Taake, 35, pleaded guilty last December to assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon, a felony, according to federal court records. He was sentenced Wednesday to 74 months in prison followed by 36 months of supervised release, along with being ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution for his role in the deadly riot in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021.