Schenectady man accused in Capitol riot ordered transported to Washington — in custody

A federal judge in Albany Wednesday ruled that Brandon Fellows would be transported, rather than released and allowed to travel on his own.

In doing so, the judge indicated he did not believe Fellows’ explanations for his conduct — including that he simply sought the officer’s number and inadvertently found one for the officer’s out-of-state mother.

“Successful supervision requires cooperation and compliance of the Defendant. Mr. Fellows has not provided that, and his conduct to date has been both boorish and alarming,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel J. Stewart wrote in his decision issued Wednesday. “Probation officers in this district, and others, are professionals, but there is certainly a limit to the type of conduct those officers should be subjected to … it appears a limit has been reached in this case.”