Similarly to another arrested rioter, it all started with a conversation on Bumble, a dating app.

The unnamed Bumble user asked if he had been “near all the action,” Taake claimed he was pepper-sprayed by police after gathering to protest the presidential election results, according to a July 21 criminal complaint.

“About 30 minutes after being sprayed,” he said of a selfie showing him wearing a gray beanie and dark gaiter across his face. “Safe to say, I was the very first person to be sprayed that day … all while just standing there.”

The two never got to meet face to face.

Three days after the events, the match sent the conversation to officials, along with screenshots of Taake’s location on Jan. 6 — shown as Alexandria, Va., just outside Washington D.C. — according to the complaint.

After the tip, officials reviewed flight records, security footage and photos and videos posted across social media. What they found was far more than a participant “peacefully standing there,” as Taake claimed on Bumble, according to the complaint.

A federal agent said images showed the Texas man “using what appears to be a metal whip and pepper spray to attack law enforcement officers.”

Body-worn camera footage provided by the Metropolitan Police Department allegedly reveals Taake emerging from the crowd of rioters on the other side of a bike rack barricade crafted by the authorities. He pepper-sprayed the officers, retreated and is then seen “striking officers with a weapon that appears to be a whip,” the federal agent wrote.

Once the crowd managed to break into the building, the U.S. Senate’s security cameras caught Taake — with his whip still in hand — walking down the aisles, the complaint says.

But how did officials conclude it was him?

After gathering images, FBI agents showed them to a FedEx driver who had delivered a package “minutes before” at Taake’s address, and identified him as the man in the photos.

A further interview between the federal agent and Taake led to his identity confirmation after the official reviewed the amassed evidence.

Authorities also said they found a link between Taake’s phone number and the Jan. 5 Spirit Airlines ticket he bought from George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, to Baltimore-Washington International Airport.

Identified in the document as the co-owner of Hi-Flow Houston — a home cleaning and pressure washing service — officials matched the phone number listed on the company’s Facebook page with the cellphone Taake used to book his flight. According to the complaint, it was connected to cellphone sites that would be utilized from inside the Capitol building.

Taake is now facing a series of charges, including attempting to obstruct the work of law enforcement, causing a disturbance during a session of Congress and entering a restricted building that contained the vice president.

He is now one of the over 535 individuals to be arrested for breaching the Capitol and one of the over 165 people charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement.

Taake is also the second to have been charged after a Bumble encounter — though others have been flagged by the dating app.

“Bumble prohibits content that promotes racism or encourages any illegal activity including terrorism and the incitement of violence,” a spokesperson for the company said in a statement to The Washington Post. “Additionally, the spreading of misinformation, such as disputing the certified results of the U.S. Election, is prohibited.”