PITTSBURGH — Because there are no cell towers where she lives for GPS monitoring, the U.S. now wants the "pink hat lady" confined to her rural Mercer County home pending trial on charges of smashing into the Capitol on Jan. 6.
A D.C. judge last week ordered that Rachel Powell, a mother of eight originally from Sandy Lake, be on GPS monitoring because she keeps violating pretrial release conditions.
But federal prosecutors said they didn't realize GPS wouldn't work where she is because it's too remote. So on Monday, they asked Judge Royce Lamberth to confine her to her residence with approval to leave only granted by her pretrial services officer in Pittsburgh.
