DC federal prosecutors on Monday filed a motion alleging that Capitol riot defendant Gabe Garcia, who under his pretrial conditions is prohibited from traveling to the DC area without prior permission from the court and for specific reasons, pretty much straight up lied when he drove his RV to the region from Florida earlier this month and attended CPAC after having told the court he was going solely to observe another rioter’s trial and meet with his former attorney.
“On Friday, March 3, 2023, defendant attended the Goss-Jankowski trial with his attorney for less than three hours. Defendant then traveled back to Maryland to attend CPAC DC 23, where he remained from approximately 1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. It appears that defendant’s last-minute request to travel to Washington, D.C. was not for the stated reason for the trip. In fact, although defendant’s travel request was justified by his need to observe trial to ‘assist in trial preparation’ and consult with his former pro hac vice attorney, he spent only few hours at trial – and did not, to our knowledge, meet with his former pro hac vice attorney – but spent about 12.5 hours in National Harbor at CPAC DC 23, taking pictures and socializing with fellow January 6 defendants,” prosecutors wrote in the motion, which includes screenshots of Garcia taking selfies at CPAC with another rioter.
Then there’s this post, included in the motion, showing just how seriously Garcia takes the whole situation. Notably the prosecutors aren’t moving to revoke his bail but instead simply ask that all future travel requests be denied. Not sure what the reasoning is for that, maybe they’re looking to have the judge or pretrial probation services make that call for them instead.