NC J6er pardoned by Trump is just latest rioter to face sexual assault charges

Two months after David Paul Daniel helped lead the mob into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the North Carolina man met police investigators in the Charlotte suburb of Mint Hill, to answer questions about allegations he sexually assaulted a girl and took photographs of her naked, over a span of four years.

Daniel denied inappropriate conduct but police seized his cellphone as evidence. Armed with a search warrant signed by a North Carolina judge, police turned the phone over to the federal...