“Pink hat lady,” Rachel Powell of Mercer County, wears a mesh mask in a March 31 social media video.

A Mercer County woman charged in the Jan. 6 riot in Washington D.C. wants location monitoring and curfew removed from her pretrial release orders.

Rachel Powell, 41, of Sandy Lake asked a federal judge to modify her conditions of release because they are interfering with her ability to raise her children.

When she was released from pretrial custody in February 2021, Powell was placed in home detention and ordered to submit to location monitoring and a curfew.

In a recently filed petition, she argues that the residence she rented on her employer’s property after selling her house to raise money for her defense is not large enough to accommodate three of her teenage sons, who live alone in a nearby efficiency dwelling.

Powell can’t enter the efficiency after 6 p.m. because the equipment that supports her GPS location monitoring ankle bracelet can’t be installed there, she said.

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