WASHINGTON - A geophysicist accused of violently beating police officers at the U.S. Capitol during a pro-Trump riot on Jan.
6, 2021 will be jailed before trial after he attempted to flee the country to Switzerland, a federal judge ruled.According to court documents released Wednesday, Jeffrey Sabol allegedly "forcibly resisted, opposed, impeded, intimidated, or interfered with Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers while they were attempting to help the U.S.
Capitol Police maintain the security of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.""He stripped a vulnerable police officer of his police baton," Judge Emmet Sullivan wrote. "He then used that stolen police baton to force another officer away from his post and into a mob of rioters.