Overview
- Rep. Jamie Raskin received temporary security upgrades and a Capitol Police escort after authorities reported Taylor Taranto in his Takoma Park neighborhood.
- At a court hearing, a federal probation officer said local police spotted Taranto near Raskin’s home, while Taranto’s lawyer disputed that he was outside the residence.
- The Justice Department asked U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols to detain Taranto for alleged supervised-release violations, citing acute mental health concerns and alarming social media posts, including a video from the Pentagon parking lot.
- Nichols allowed Taranto to return home on the condition that he leave Washington, D.C., by a court-set deadline as he weighs further detention and awaits additional information from the defense.
- Taranto’s Jan. 6 charges were pardoned earlier this year, but he was later convicted of illegally possessing weapons near former President Obama’s home and of a hoax bomb threat, and the latest case unfolds during a rise in threats to Democratic officials, including bomb threats reported by Sen. Chuck Schumer’s offices.