A man who fled the country after being convicted for his actions during the January 6th Capitol riots is crying foul after authorities in Canada placed him under arrest.
CBC reports that convicted MAGA rioter Anthony Vo was arrested this week in British Columbia four years after he and his fellow Trump supporters illegally stormed the Capitol in a failed attempt to block the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
"On Wednesday, a spokesperson for the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) said Vo was arrested in Whistler on Jan. 6 on a warrant under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA)," reports CBC. "The agency assesses whether people coming to Canada are legally admissible and investigates those already here who may not be. It can arrest and detain inadmissible individuals under the act."
Vo had originally fled to Canada after being slapped with a nine-month prison sentence and he had tried to claim asylum in the country.
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Oluwadamilola Asuni, an attorney representing Vo, complained to the CBC that his client's arrest was politically motivated.
"He thinks that Canada is just trying to prove a point... to the current U.S. government to say, Oh, we are not condoning your political opponent or stuff like that," Asuni said. "He thinks the whole thing is unfair to him, and he thinks that the entire thing is unreasonable."
Regardless, Vo might fare better in the United States now given that President-elect Donald Trump has pledged mass pardons for convicted Capitol rioters when he returns to office later this month.
In fact, Vo told CBC he was confident that Trump would pardon him.
"He's already made too many promises in the public spotlight that it would look really bad if he didn't," Vo said. "And he's a man of his word."
