Nearly three years ago, a young professional in the nation's capital was sitting in her apartment after the Jan. 6 attack and saw that the FBI was looking for help identifying the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol. So she opened up the Bumble dating app, changed her political beliefs to conservative and got to swiping.



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Capitol Rioter Nabbed in Bumble Dating App Sting

A woman responsible for the conviction of at least one Jan. 6 rioter said that she has no regrets.
	The woman was identified as "Witness I" in the FBI's affidavit against 35-year-old Andrew Taake, who pleaded guilty Wednesday "to assaulting law enforcement officers with a deadly and dangerous weapon, admitting that he used both bear spray and the metal whip to attack officers, during a hearing before U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols in Washingto…

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'I regret exactly nothing': Woman stands firm after nabbing Jan. 6 rioters on dating app

Andrew Taake, a Jan. 6 rioter who was turned in by a woman on the Bumble dating app, pleaded guilty to assaulting officers.

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Jan. 6 rioter nabbed in Bumble dating app sting pleads guilty to assaulting officers

The 32-year-old was reportedly one of a few Jan. 6 participants who were taken down by using Bumble. The man, now with a felony on his record, used the app hours after the riot at the Capitol.

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Houston man who bragged about Jan. 6 involvement on Bumble dating app pleads guilty

“Nearly three years ago, a young professional in the nation’s capital was sitting in her apartment after the Jan. 6 attack and saw that the FBI was looking for help identifying the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol. So she opened up the Bumble dating app, changed her political beliefs to conservative and got to swiping,” NBC News reports. “The woman reached out to several Donald Trump supporters who the app showed were in the Washington, D.C.…

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Andrew Taake has pleaded guilty to assaulting officers during the January 6 Capitol riot. NBC News' Ryan Reilly reports on how a user on Bumble was able to get information from those who participated in the riot on the dating app, like Taake, and turn them in to the FBI.

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Jan. 6 rioter caught in Bumble dating app sting pleads guilty

Andrew Taake — a 32-year-old Texas man who attended the deadly January 6, 2021 riot at the US Capitol — recently pleaded guilty in a federal courtroom. His impending prison sentence is due to the efforts of an unnamed woman in Washington, DC.According to NBC News, the woman got the idea to pursue January 6 defendants on the dating app Bumble (known for its feature of only allowing female users to send the first message) after the FBI issued a ca…

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'I regret exactly nothing': Woman got Jan. 6 rioter to confess on dating app and reported him to FBI

MSNBC’s Chris Jansing knows when a story can speak for itself, and she proved that Wednesday after NBC’s Ryan Reilly presented the latest January 6 insurrectionist facing justice after he was tracked down on the Bumble dating app. Reilly has been on the beat of identifying people involved in the January 6 insurrection — he even wrote a book about it. But one story in particular involved a woman using the pseudonym “Claire” finding out that the F…

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MSNBC Anchor Has Wry Reaction To Details Of How Jan 6 Rioter Pleading Guilty Was Caught By Dating App Sting

Nearly three years ago, a woman changed her Bumble political preference settings to ‘conservative’ in an effort to help the FBI identify anyone who stormed the Capitol

Jan. 6 rioter nabbed in Bumble dating app sting pleads guilty to assaulting officers

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