‘I am a gray ghost ranger’: Man nicknamed ‘Live Wire’ admits to plotting to interfere with police at Capitol on Jan. 6 after saying ‘it’s time for good men to do bad things’

Daniel Edwin Wilson is seen in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 (U.S. Attorney

Daniel Edwin Wilson is seen in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 (U.S. Attorney’s Office).

After initially saying a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter was erroneously released from custody for firearms possession charges stemming from a raid at his home in the insurrection case, federal prosecutors argued this week the man should remain free after they say President Donald Trump’s mass pardon covers the weapons offenses.

In court documents, prosecutors asked U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich, a Trump appointee, to drop weapons charges against Daniel Edwin Wilson, 49. He was arrested in the Jan. 6 case on May 25, 2023, and he ultimately pleaded guilty to conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer, possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and possession of an unregistered firearm. He was sentenced on Aug. 28, 2024, to 60 months — or five years — in prison.

Nearly five months later, he was one of 1,500 convicted Jan. 6 rioters freed from custody under President Trump’s Inauguration Day pardon.

But after prosecutors said he was erroneously released from custody, he was ordered to self-surrender to serve out his term for the separate weapons charges. His attorney filed a motion to stay that order, and the court ordered the government to clarify whether the pardon covered the defendant’s firearm convictions.

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