Proud Boys Leader Complains Of Threats In Florida Jail

The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports:

A Volusia County Proud Boys leader being held in the Seminole County Jail has been threatened by inmates and will likely be threatened again as they seek to test him, his attorney said during a federal hearing on Thursday.

Joseph R. Biggs, 37, was a leader among the Proud Boys in planning “an organized and violent attack” upon the country’s democracy and its Capitol building on Jan. 6, according to federal prosecutors.

And word that Biggs is locked up in a subsection of the Seminole County Jail, which holds about 150 federal inmates in other cases, has been getting around, according to J. Daniel Hull, who represents Biggs.

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Joseph Biggs has been held at the Seminole County Jail since he turned himself in to U.S. Marshals on April 22 after helping plan “an organized and violent attack” on the U.S. Capitol. https://t.co/BToOQktJ8V

— Daytona Beach News-Journal (@dbnewsjournal) July 15, 2021