"Guilty," Taake pleaded, telling Nichols he was entering his plea voluntarily and of his own free will.
Taake, who had been ordered held in pretrial detention after he was arrested in July 2021, appeared in a sparsely filled courtroom Wednesday in an orange prison jumpsuit. District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia)Īndrew Taake, 35, of Texas, pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement officers with a deadly and dangerous weapon, admitting that he used both bear spray and a metal whip to attack officers, at a hearing before U.S.