Pardoned J6er who was arrested for touching women back in jail on stalking allegation

Pardoned Capitol riot participant Bryan Betancur has been arrested for alleged misconduct with women, and it's not the first time he's faced such allegations since getting his Jan. 6 charges wiped by President Donald Trump.

A few weeks ago, Betancur was arrested after he allegedly touched multiple women on the D.C. Metro and livestreamed himself stroking their hair without consent.

Now, according to WUSA 9, Betancur is in even more trouble, with prosecutors accusing him of engaging in stalking and violating the terms of his release.

"When he was arraigned in D.C. court on March 13, Judge Renee Raymond released him under the condition he wears an ankle GPS monitor and stays away from Metro trains and stations. But, Raymond said, if she had the basis to hold him in jail, she definitely would," said the report. "In a new motion ahead of Betancur's Wednesday hearing, prosecutors are asking a judge to hold him pending trial for violating the conditions of his release. The court filing says in the past month, he has harassed and stalked a woman in D.C. A warrant for his arrest for stalking was issued Tuesday, court documents say."

Prosecutors say that Betancur, a resident of Silver Spring, Maryland, harassed the woman using Telegram and X, asking her about "mental health, her feet and sexually explicit topics throughout 2024 and 2025," per the report — then when the woman turned up to an event at D.C., Betancur appeared, threw a Nazi salute, and tried to get her thrown out.

He later streamed himself wandering around the Supreme Court building while they heard oral arguments about Trump's executive order curtailing birthright citizenship, demanding to know where the woman was.

Betancur's legal problems stretch much further back than this.

He traveled to the Capitol to help the Proud Boys cause violence in January 2021. He had initially told police he was there to hand out bibles, but police determined he was lying by reviewing data from his ankle monitor, worn as a result of a pre-existing conviction for breaking into an elementary school. Federal prosecutors would detail his obsession with being a "lone-wolf killer" and his ties to white supremacists.

He spent four months in jail for Jan. 6. Trump would later pardon him and around 1,500 other people involved in storming the Capitol as one of his first acts in office.

Betancur is far from alone among pardoned Jan. 6 rioters in landing himself in new trouble. The previous October, Christopher Moynihan was detained over threats to assassinate House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). And in early March, Florida handyman Andrew Paul Johnson was sentenced to life for molesting two children.