Ryan Samsel biography: 13 things about US Capitol rioter from Bristol, Pennsylvania

Ryan Stephen Samsel is an American barber who lived in Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States with his uncle and his aunt. The borough is around 158 miles away from Washington, D.C., USA.

On November 3, 2020, Joe Biden won the U.S. presidential election, defeating Donald Trump. On January 6, 2021, Trump’s supporters breached the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. while a joint session of U.S. Congress was certifying the vote of the Electoral College and affirming Biden’s victory.

During the riot, Samsel assaulted a female U.S. Capitol Police officer. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. In 2006, he was convicted of terroristic threats, reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct after allegedly trying to run a female victim off the road because she owed him $60. He was accused of approaching her vehicle, punching her vehicle and telling her he knew where she lived and would kill her if he did not get his money.
2. In 2007, he was accused of hitting a man in the face after getting into the man’s car.
3. In 2009, he held a female victim against her will for 5 hours, choked her to the point of unconsciousness, pushed her, beat her and chipped her teeth. He was convicted of simple assault and reckless endangerment.
4. In 2011, he choked and beat his pregnant girlfriend. He was convicted of simple assault, reckless endangerment, disorderly conduct and unlawful restraint.
5. In 2015, he choked another woman to the point of unconsciousness and hit her so hard she had a hematoma. He was convicted of simple assault.
6. In 2019, a still different female victim accused him of raping her multiple times, choking her to the point of unconsciousness and breaking into her house and assaulting her in Riverside, New Jersey, USA. She obtained a restraining order but he violated it multiple times.
7. On January 6, 2021, he entered the U.S. Capitol building wearing a red hat, a light blue jacket, a long sleeve white-hooded shirt and a black T-shirt.
8. On January 29, 2021, U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui signed a a criminal complaint filed against him by a Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent. On January 30, 2021, FBI agents arrested him in Bristol Township and he was held in the Federal Detention Center (FDC) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was charged with forcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding, intimidating or interfering with a federal agent while they are engaged in their official duties, committing or attempting to commit any act to obstruct, impede or interfere with any fireman or law enforcement officer lawfully engaged in the lawful performance of his official duties and obstructing, influencing or impeding any official proceeding or attempting do do so.
9. On February 2, 2021, the Pennsylvania State Parole lodged a detainer against him. On February 5, 2021, U.S. Magistrate Judge Richard A. Lloret ordered him detained pursuant to his consent. On February 19, 2021, he was was transported to Washington, D.C. and appeared in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
10. In March 2021, he suffered serious medical injuries after being assaulted in jail in Washington, D.C., which aggravated a preexisting medical condition, according to his lawyer Elisabeth K. H. Pasqualini.
11. He cited blood clots, gynecomastia and several other health problems as reasons why he should be released from pretrial detention but U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb denied his requests. Cobb ordered that a medical evaluation at a tertiary research center be completed within 14 days of May 17, 2022. On May 24, 2021, he filed the instant motion to revoke Lloret’s order of detention.
12. On June 1, 2022, he refused to allow Health Services Staff at the FDC in Philadelphia to evaluate him.
13. He was 39 years old when he was convicted on February 2, 2024 on federal assault charges and for obstructing the confirmation of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. In June 2024, he will be sentenced.

If you have information about someone who participated in the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, call 1-800-CALL-FBI or submit relevant photos and videos to the FBI.