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Judge removes house arrest restriction on central Pa. cop charged in U.S. Capitol riot
Updated Feb 25, 2021;
Saying prosecutors didn’t make their case that he is a public threat, a federal judge Thursday ordered that a central Pennsylvania police officer charged in the U.S. Capitol riot doesn’t have to remain under house arrest with electronic monitoring while he awaits prosecution.
Those restrictions Magistrate Judge Robin Meriweather of the U.S. District Court of Washington, D.C, lifted from Joseph Fischer had lasted only two days.
They were imposed by a magistrate judge in U.S. Middle District Court in Harrisburg on Tuesday following a preliminary hearing on the riot charges against Fischer, who has been suspended from the North Cornwall Township police. Fischer, 54, of Jonestown, spent five days in Dauphin County Prison following his arrest by the FBI on Feb. 19.