A pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who was arrested final week after posting movies of himself fondling unsuspecting girls’s hair on the DC Metro was cuffed once more, simply seconds after he left court docket Monday.
Bryan Betancur, 28, was in court docket in Arlington, Va., for an assault and battery offense that happened aboard a Silver Line prepare servicing the Clarendon Metro Station in Virginia final Sunday, in keeping with Metro Transit Police and court docket data.
Moments after he left the Arlington District Courthouse — the place he pleaded not responsible to each expenses and was launched after posting bond — Betancur was cuffed and hauled away by Metro Transit Police on an excellent warrant for an incident in Washington, DC, WUSA9 reported.
Betancur, of Silver Springs, Maryland, was charged with easy assault in DC Superior Courtroom in reference to Metro Transit Police’s ongoing investigation into movies Betancur posted of himself on-line, legislation enforcement sources mentioned.
The extra assault allegedly occurred on a Crimson Line prepare serving NoMa-Gallaudet on Feb. 28, sources added.
The creep’s first arrest adopted a viral livestream clip of him touching a girl’s hair on the metro prepare with out her information, and one other clip he posted of himself equally placing his fingers by means of one other lady’s hair.
Police couldn’t instantly verify whether or not his arrest was tied to the livestream movies, although they confirmed they’ve been investigating the troubling footage he posted on-line.
Inmate data point out the profession felony and self-proclaimed white supremacist is now being held in Arlington County Detention Heart as a fugitive from justice.
Betancur, who has a historical past of psychological well being points, pleaded responsible to fourth-degree housebreaking in Montgomery County in 2019 for getting into an elementary college in Baltimore with out permission, in keeping with copies of court docket proceedings obtained by The Put up.
He was out on probation for the housebreaking conviction and was carrying an ankle monitor when he stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in keeping with a federal affidavit.
He had acquired permission to go to DC to cross out Bibles for an evangelical group that day — and was later sentenced to 4 months behind bars for his function within the riot.
Betancur was one in every of roughly 1,500 defendants charged for his or her participation within the US Capitol riots who had been pardoned by President Trump early in his second presidential time period.
The hair fondler additionally spent two months behind bars in 2024 — and was ordered to serve one other two years’ probation — after violating an anti-stalking order for Brianne Champman, a Washington, DC activist often called “Anarchy Princess” and a counter-protester at hearings associated to Jan. 6, WSUA9 reported.
He was additionally busted for a probation violation in DC and sentenced to an extra 150 days behind bars in Might 2025, court docket data present.
Betancur is a “self-proclaimed white supremacist” who had voiced homicidal ideations and made feedback about “conducting a faculty taking pictures” — and beforehand remarked that he needed to “run individuals over with a car and kill individuals in a church,” in keeping with a federal affidavit.
The rioter has additionally expressed his want to be a “lone wolf killer,” court docket papers added.
An account recognized as belonging to Betancur — with the bio “Citizen Journalist, Authorized Observer. Vindicated Patriot, Political Activist, Prolife, Antivax J6ER Catholic” — appeared to have privated all their content material final week.
The Metro Transit Police is urging anybody with details about Betancur or different potential offenses to contact them by calling (202)-962-2121 or texting MYMTPD (696873).
