Jake Lang was arrested Tuesday evening in Frisco, Texas, on an active criminal trespass warrant and is now being held at the Collin County Jail. Frisco police said the warrant was tied to an alleged June 2 trespassing incident.
The arrest puts Lang, whose legal name is Edward Jacob Lang, back in custody in North Texas after he was pardoned following his prison term tied to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. For a man who became known nationally through that case, the new arrest is drawing fresh attention because it lands while a separate felony charge in Minnesota is still moving through the courts.
Police identified the alleged trespassing address as 6101 Frisco Square Boulevard, which is the address of the George A. Purefoy Municipal Center. That detail gives the warrant a fixed location, but the public record does not spell out what happened there on June 2 or exactly when during the day the alleged trespass occurred.
That gap matters because the arrest itself appears straightforward even as the underlying allegation remains thinly described. Frisco police said Lang was taken into custody on the warrant, but the available information stops short of explaining what prompted it, beyond the date and the municipal center address.
Lang’s legal troubles did not end with his pardon. Earlier this year, Ramsey County prosecutors charged him with a felony count of first-degree property damage over an incident at the Minnesota State Capitol involving a destroyed “Prosecute ICE” ice sculpture, and the criminal complaint said Common Defense paid $6,250 to a local artist to create it and obtained a permit to display it on Capitol grounds.
His history helps explain why the Frisco arrest is landing so quickly in national coverage. Lang was arrested in 2021 for his role in the Jan. 6 riot, and previous reporting said he spent four years in prison on an 11-count indictment that included assault charges tied to attacks on law enforcement officers with a baseball bat before receiving a presidential pardon. The new warrant shows that even after that pardon, his legal exposure is still active — and in this case, the unanswered question is not whether he was arrested, but what exactly happened at 6101 Frisco Square Boulevard to trigger it.
