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(57,073 posts) Sun Jan 24, 2021, 07:19 PM Jan 2021

ABC: 2 men arrested during Philly vote count sent back to jail after Capitol rally attendance

https://6abc.com/us-capitol-riot-philadelphia-district-attorney-pennsylvania-convention-center-presidential-election/9972377/

PHILADELPHIA -- Two men arrested in November after they traveled to the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Center City Philadelphia where votes in the 2020 presidential race were being counted were sent back to jail after their bail was increased due to their participation in the rally near the U.S. Capitol that turned deadly earlier this month.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that no evidence was presented during Friday's combative hearing that 42-year-old Joshua Macias and 61-year-old Antonio LaMotta entered the Capitol building along with thousands of violent supporters of former President Donald Trump battled with law enforcement and ransacked offices.

But prosecutors presented video evidence that the two men were on the Capitol grounds and argued they violated their previous bail conditions. Common Pleas Court Judge Crystal Bryant-Powell increased the $750,000 bail previously set for both men, adding $100,000 to Macias and $15,000 to LaMotta. The judge ordered them jailed until they pay 10% of the new increases. Court records Sunday listed both as still confined.

Defense attorneys argued that their clients broke no laws just by being on the Capitol grounds and pointed out that they have not been arrested by federal authorities. A prosecutor, seeking revocation of their bail, argued that they had traveled to Washington to help incite the riot.

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