Capitol riot defendant Brandon Fellows got his bail revoked and was hauled back to jail after he left rambling and sometimes obscene voicemails for his pretrial services officer and once called her mother, which left both the officer and her mother feeling nervous, CBS News reports.
Probation officer Kendra Rennie testified Wednesday that Fellows had been “problematic” throughout their contact while he was released on bail. She said he had made sexual innuendos and frequently left her rambling, overly long voicemails. When he was asked to look for work, she said, he applied to Albany’s FBI office, which she took to be sarcastic.
Renie said one voicemail he left her referenced “the size of his genitalia and the performance of his genitalia.”
She also testified that Fellows then called her mother’s phone and asked to speak with Rennie, which she felt was a purposeful form of intimidation.
“It was intimidation. It was frightening. It made me nervous,” she said, and added that she ultimately went to pick up her mother, who felt “very uncomfortable” about the situation.
Fellows, 27, had previously been released on bail while facing a five-count indictment that includes a felony charge of obstruction. He is accused of entering the office of Senator Jeffrey Merkley during the Capitol breach, and was filmed propping his feet on an office desk while wearing a fake orange beard, prosecutors said.
“Prosecutors had asked a judge twice to revoke his pretrial release, but the judge had previously denied both requests. On Thursday, however, Judge Trevor McFadden granted their third request, noting he could no longer give Fellows the benefit of the doubt after his sustained pattern of behavior. Now he will have to await his trial in jail,” CBS reported.
According to the FBI’s criminal complaint, Fellows bragged that his Bumble dating profile was “blowing up” after he posted a picture of himself at the Capitol, and that he didn’t expect to get in trouble for the Capitol breach because he saw that other rioters who had stormed the building were not being arrested.
