By Reporter Staff
Reporter Staff
A federal judge in Boston ruled Monday that Pepo Herd El, arrested last November after he got off a bus at Ruggles while allegedly wearing body armor and packing a loaded gun, three full magazines and a knife, is unlikely to stick around for a trial and has proven enough of a potential risk to society that she had no choice but to order him locked up at least until a verdict is read.
But US District Court Magistrate Judge Judith Dein also ordered a hearing on Aug. 30 to determine whether El, whom the feds also allege was accumulating various materials for making bombs at his home on McLellan Street in Dorchester, is mentally competent to stand trial on two counts of being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.