Oath Keeper Ordered To Jail Ahead Of Sedition Trial

Politico reports:

Edward Vallejo, an Oath Keeper indicted last week on charges of seditious conspiracy to prevent the transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden last year, has been ordered detained pending trial. A federal magistrate judge in Arizona on Thursday found that the evidence prosecutors amassed against Vallejo, 63, showed that he presented an ongoing danger to society.

The judge, John Boyle, said prosecutors had presented compelling evidence that Vallejo was prepared to shuttle a large cache of firearms and other weaponry into Washington D.C. to aid other the efforts of Oath Keepers to storm and occupy the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Rhodes never ordered Vallejo to bring the weapons into Washington, prosecutors say, because the pro-Trump crowd managed to get inside the Capitol without them.

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NEW: Ed Vallejo — charged with overseeing Oath Keepers’ Jan. 6 arsenal of weaponry stashed at an Arlington, VA Comfort Inn — was ordered jailed pending trial tonight.

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