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Trustee Jennifer Teising and her attorney outside of Tippecanoe County Courthouse Tuesday (WBAA News/Ben Thorp)
Attorneys for the state argued in court on Tuesday that Wabash Township Trustee Jennifer Teising’s request for a change of venue and prosecutor should be denied.
Teising was indicted in May on charges that she had illegally withdrawn her trustee salary while not a legal resident of the township, charges she denies.
In late June, Teising s attorney, Karen Celestino-Horseman, filed for a change of venue and a special prosecutor, arguing that Teising would not receive a fair trial in Tippecanoe or surrounding counties because of “inflamed” passions due to extensive pretrial publicity.
July 16, 2021
On July 15, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice revealed that it had indicted two California men, Ian Benjamin Rogers and Jarrod Copeland, on charges related to an alleged plot to destroy the Democratic party headquarters in Sacramento with incendiary devices. According to communications between the two men, they were animated by grievance over Donald Trump’s loss of the 2020 election, and planned to conduct their attack after President Biden’s inauguration on January 20, 2021.
The announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice claims that the men hoped that the attack “might start a movement to overthrow the government.”
Copeland was allegedly affiliated with the Three Percenters. Although Rogers has not been identified as a member of a militia group, he had a three percenters bumper sticker on his vehicle and had once attended a barbecue hosted by the Three Percenters. Federal agents alleged that that Copeland may have attempted to contact the r
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