A Jan. 6 Capitol rioter who U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned has been arrested on child molestation charges involving two minors, according to Florida police.

Authorities allege that Andrew Paul Johnson, 44, tried to use funds he was expecting to receive as part of a Jan. 6 payout to silence one of the alleged victims, an underage boy, with whom he is charged with sharing lewd and lascivious material and molesting a child under the age of 12.

In the other case, Johnson faces charges of lewd or lascivious behaviour to a child under the age of 16, transmitting harmful material to a minor, and lewd exhibition with a minor, according to a July 18 police report from the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office.

Johnson, who was among the roughly 1,500 people Trump pardoned this year in co

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