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Judge Orders Kernersville Capitol Riot Suspect To Remain In Custody

Prosecutors say this series of video images captures Charles Donohoe of Kernersville (right) taking part in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Image from March 26 Memorandum in support of pre-trial detention.

A Kernersville man awaiting trial on charges connected to the violent Jan. 6 Insurrection will remain in jail, a federal judge has ruled.

Prosecutors made a request back in March to keep Charles Donohoe in custody, citing what they say was his involvement in planning and organizing members of the far-right Proud Boys organization to storm the U.S. Capitol.

The goal of the insurrection was to stop the certification of the November presidential election won by Joe Biden. The insurrection failed and the results were certified.

Donohoe has been indicted on conspiracy charges along with other Proud Boy leaders from different states.

The Winston-Salem Journal reports that the judge's decision to keep Donohoe in custody came after prosecutors offered more details to explain why they think he's a threat to public safety.

Donohoe is being held in Oklahoma.

 

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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