A man who was arrested last June during a protest at the Lancaster police station â and who prompted the countyâs president judge to notify the public that the man said he had COVID-19 â has pleaded guilty.
Julio Torres, 23, had been charged with riot, aggravated assault, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct for his involvement in a June 1 protest following social justice demonstrations in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Police said Torres threw objects at them and threw a barricade into the street.
He is serving a sentence of four years of probation after pleading guilty in January to aggravated assault â a second-degree felony â and misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. The riot charge, a third-degree felony, was dropped.