A man who participated in the storming the capitolof the United States and who had an arrest warrant against him was arrested on Thursday near the residence of the former president barack obama (2009-2017) in Washington.

The arrested man, identified by the authorities as Taylor Taranto, 37, was detected and pursued by a secret service agent in the vicinity of the former president’s home, national media reported. Taranto, who had an arrest warrant against him from the washington police for his role in the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Congress, was in a van when he was arrested.

Inside the vehicle, authorities found various weapons and material to make explosives, detailed the media. It is unknown if the former president and his wife, Michelle Obama, were at the residence. The authorities they had Taranto in their crosshairs, because he had published several threatening messages on social networks such as Truth Social, the platform of the former president donald trump (2017-2021), against a public figure, indicated the CBS network.

On January 6, 2021, some 10,000 people gathered They demonstrated in front of the Capitol and about 800 broke into the Congress building to try to stop the ratification of the joe trump good in the presidential elections in which he prevailed over Trump. More than 1,000 people have been accused for the assault on the Capitol, of which nearly 600 have pleaded guilty. According to data from the District of Columbia Attorney’s Office, 310 people have been sentenced to jail terms ranging from a few days to two decades in prison.

The higher sentence dictated so far has been for the founder of the far-right groupOath KeepersStewart Rhodes, who was sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy in November 2022.