PITTSBURGH — A federal judge has rejected a request by a Uniontown welder accused of pepper-spraying police officers during the Capitol insurrection to have his case held elsewhere and separately from two co-defendants.
The judge also rejected Peter Schwartz’s attempt to get an obstruction count against him tossed.
Schwartz, a felon from Kentucky living in Uniontown, is among some two dozen people from Western Pennsylvania accused of storming the Capitol.
