Accused Bucks Capitol rioter once assaulted an ex with pizza and tried to drown her, feds say in bid

Accused Bucks Capitol rioter once assaulted an ex with pizza and tried to drown her, feds say in bid to keep him locked up


A decade before prosecutors say Ryan Samsel, of Bristol, was one of the first in a mob of rioters to attack police Jan. 6 outside the U.S. Capitol, he was convicted of smashing a hot pizza in the face of his pregnant girlfriend, pouring beer over her head, and then shoving her into a canal and holding her head under water until she told him she loved him.

Two years before that, he was convicted of holding another woman against her will for five hours and choking her to the point of unconsciousness.

And three years before that, he pleaded guilty to running yet another woman off the road, punching her windshield and threatening to kill her in a dispute over $60.

But on Friday, it was a beating that Samsel endured — not delivered — that brought him back before a federal judge in Washington, pleading to be transferred out of a D.C.-area jail

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