Daniel and the Law: Difference between revisions

'''Laws''' are a set of rules established by a society, typically to protect its members and ensure the orderly function of society. For, [[Daniel Larson|Daniel]], however, laws serve as a deterrent in his career as a [[Music Career|singer-songwriter]] and marrying [[Grace VanderWaal]]. As one can guess, he has been in trouble with the law on multiple occasions, racking up an incredible amount of charges and visits to jail.

As of April 2024, Daniel has been to jail a whopping number of '''7''' times, 4 for being a [[Jail Arc|fugitive of justice]] – after time and time again of not attending court, 2 for assault, one of which being to [[November 6th Arrest|his own mother]], and 1 time for for making several terroristic threats against the government and other establishments. Daniel has found himself with charges for destruction of private property, petty theft, trespassing, criminal mischief, and so on. Despite this, Daniel has hardly faced any incarceration despite these crimes, and when he has, he has rarely ever stayed behind bars for very long.

[[Colorado Springs|Colorado]], where Daniel has resided for most of his life, has several laws meant to imprison repeat offenders – which often times means that if an individual is brought in a third time for a felony or misdemeanor, the sentence if found guilty is more severe than than the last (in some states, the sentence is life in prison). But, seeing as Daniel has almost always gotten away with a slap on the wrist, it is very unlikely that he'll be staying in jail, much less prison. Due to the negligence of the police, several businesses have been defrauded by Daniel.  

However, after his April 30 arrest, he has spent close to 3 months in the slammer (as of July 2024), and following a July 19 decision that he is incompetent to stand trial, he has been institutionalized in a mental health facility indefinitely.  

[[Daniel and Mental Health|As with his grip on reality]], Daniel's understanding of the law is tenuous at least. Daniel legitimately beleives trolling is illegal, as well as regularly threatening unspecified legal actions against people who say mean things to him online, expose him for [[Pedophilia|pedophilic behaviour]], or [[List of places that have banned Daniel|employees who remove them from establishments.]]  

Daniel himself is prone to making violent threats, such as threatening to kill [[Bob Proctor]] on several occasions, as well as threatening to blow up with White House<ref>[[Dog Arc]]</ref> which are illegal in and of itselves. Daniel is also prone to calling the police for ridiculous. reasons, such as when he (albeit, allegedly) screamed that he had a bomb to a 911 operator after [[Music]] was rescued from him, as well as demanding police officers to "CALL FUCKING DISPATCH!" in response to him being trolled online.{{Citation Needed}}

Interestingly, Daniel seems to have a rather skewed view of the idea of "self-defense". During several fights with [[Bob]] or [[Bodega Incident|others]], he is often the one to start altercations opposed to protecting himself whenever they happen.  

In 2020, Daniel was reported to the FBI following the leaking of his [[Pinterest|Pinterest account]] in November. His Pinterest account contained several saved pictures of children, as well as a map of the age of consent in the United States. Several TikTok users, most notably [[The Delegation Podcast]], were under the assumption that Daniel was under the possession of illegal images of minors, which resulted in him being reported to the FBI as a result.<ref>[[Classic Era]]</ref> After being reported, this spark the first [[The Dark Ages|Dark Age,]] where Daniel left the internet for 3 1/2 months, coming back to TikTok in March of 2021.  

While it is unclear what truly happened, and what the legal proceedings were, Daniel claimed on several occasions that he was investigated by FBI, and due to this, he was unable to show his face until further notice, and at a later date, claimed he was "cleared."

On August 13th, 2021, Daniel was charged with destruction of property for smashing the window of a car on someones private property.<ref>https://www.denvercountycourt.org/search/?casenumber=21GS005165&firstname=DANIEL&lastname=LARSON&dob=11/15/1998&token=46feb0f272&searchtype=searchcancelwarrant</ref>

Due to this, Daniel was summoned to court. He failed to appear four separate times, and has had $350 worth of fees imposed on him via bond, bond forfeiture, and warrant fees. $100 worth of these has already been paid, leaving $250 due.{{Citation Needed}}

On August 4th 2022, Daniel uploaded a video announcing that he had gotten all of his warrants all taken care of by "merging it all into one case", saying that it should all be cleared up within the month.<ref>https://archive.org/details/7128225641064975659</ref><ref>https://archive.org/details/7128224082675551534</ref> While its validity is unclear, it is most likely that his cases were merged into one individual case due to Daniel repeatedly not showing up for them when ordered to.  

Daniel Larson was arrested for a federal warrant on all the threats he made from various meltdowns, all of which were investigated by [[Daniel MacDougall]] starting in the summer of 2023. He was booked into the Jefferson County Detention Facility, and was ineligible for bail, possibly indicating felony charges. As the charges were more severe than the previous, this commenced the [[Second Jail Arc]]. The charges were revealed later and he was transferred to FCI Englewood the next month, where he is currently awaiting trial. This arc is much longer than his previous incarcerations, spanning over 3 months.