A federal judge denied a motion from a Mercer County woman to dismiss one of the charges she is facing for allegedly participating in the Jan. 6 riot in Washington, D.C., and denied her request to lift the curfew and location monitoring provisions of her pretrial release.

Judge Royce Lamberth of U.S. District Court in Washington recently denied the motions filed by Rachel Powell, 41, of Sandy Lake.

In the latest motion filed May 4 by her attorney Nicholas D. Smith, Powell sought dismissal of count one of the eight-count indictment filed against her following the riot.

The charge — obstruction of an official proceeding — should be dismissed because the proceeding in question did not involved an investigation or evidence, Smith argued in the motion.

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