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Pa. felon charged in Jan. 6 Capitol riot asks for new venue; wife set to plead guilty

PITTSBURGH — A welder living in Uniontown accused of violently assaulting the U.S. Capitol using mace in support of Donald Trump's election lies is asking that his case be moved from Washington, D.C., and that prosecutors not be allowed to use information seized from his phone after the FBI arrested him.

Peter Schwartz, a felon from Kentucky who was working in Uniontown, is charged with numerous felony counts in connection with storming the Capitol and using mace on police, then later bragging that he should be in federal prison for what he did.

If he's convicted, that outcome is almost certain.

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