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For Trump-appointed prosecutor, South Deerfield ["transgender"] woman symbolizes threats to administration

Note several things here.

As usual, articles about homosexual issues are overly long, many paragraphs, columns
Reporter starts the article right off with a "he's a victim" to excuse his violent actions
Exemplifies the violent nature of 'transgenders' due to their underlying mental issues (See also: "Transgender" issues)
His "fiancé" is another guy who claims to also be transgender. It's common for a "transgender woman," who is actually a homosexual man, to have another homosexual man or another "transgender woman" as a partner.
Proves that a "transgender woman" is not a "man" who claims to be a "woman," but is a homosexual man who claims to be a woman. It's important to get the definitions right.
His "partner" also was a homosexual man claiming to be a woman, who in this case never got around to legally changing his name, calling himself "Judith."
They're simply 2 homosexual men
(There is no LGBTQ1A+, there is only "H")

Riley Jane English's court-appointed defense attorney paints her in court documents as a troubled soul, a transgender woman acting out on feelings of abandonment and persecution who turned herself into D.C. Capitol police with no real plan to harm anybody.

But the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, appointed by President Donald Trump, apparently used English’s still-ongoing criminal case as an example of threats faced by officials of the incoming administration, Supreme Court justices and others. In an unusual message to staff last week, he vowed to make the office "guardians of federal workers."

Edward R. Martin Jr. describes the English case without naming her. But he wrote a woman who drove to Washington from Massachusetts last month with "incendiary weapons" with plans to attack Pete Hegseth, Trump’s now-confirmed choice to lead the Department of Defense.

Martin is described as a Trump loyalist who was in the crowd on Jan. 6, 2021. His letter refers to his own legal efforts on behalf of those charged with crimes that day.

The memo, available through social media and reported by The New York Times and others goes on to say: "We arrested her and will charge her with every crime possible, and, God willing, she will be incarcerated."

English, from South Deerfield, remains in federal custody in D.C., awaiting either a grand jury indictment or a preliminary hearing now scheduled for April 1.

English, according to court papers filed by prosecutors, turned herself in to Capitol Police Jan. 27.

English told officers she had homemade firebombs, a knife and wanted to kill Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, a plan she made while traveling to Washington. She originally wanted to set fire to conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation or harm Hegseth, prosecutors allege in court documents.

Officers found 50 milliliter bottles of Absolut brand vodka with a grey cloth affixed, a green lighter and a folding knife on English. English told officers the cloth was soaked in hand sanitizer.

The prosecution’s memorandum for pretrial confinement makes the case that the vodka with cloth were weapons, despite the difficulty anyone would have had getting 80-proof vodka to burn. Vodkas with higher alcohol content burn more easily.

They argued the two bottles did not need to work as intended to be considered destructive devices.

"While Absolut brand vodka may not be a liquid that can cause an ignition, the Defendant clearly believed that it would," prosecutors wrote. "Indeed, when a law enforcement officer asked the Defendant, 'is that really a Molotov cocktail,?' the Defendant responded, "Well, it works."

English told officers at the Capitol that day that she was terminally ill and "wanted to do something before I go," according to prosecutors. She said she was influenced by Luigi Mangione, the man charged with fatally shooting the CEO of UnitedHealthcare.

"I have seen the response to that kind of situation," English is quoted as saying in court papers. "It is not an everyday thing and it extremely shook up everything."

But she goes on to say revenge is a futile act.

In a memo to the court, English’s defense attorney said English is a transgender woman who has faced ridicule, discrimination, abuse and scorn from family and friends because of her identity.

Federal public defender Maria Jacob of the Office of the Federal Public Defender in Washington wrote English also suffered the loss of her fiancé to suicide on Election Day 2024.

Court papers included photos of the words "NO FUTURE NO CHOICE" handwritten on one of English's forearms and the phrase "THERE IS ONLY ONE EARTH" written on the other.

Jacob declined comment when reached this week by phone. Her arguments on English’s behalf came from court papers Jacob filed.

Court papers also identify English as Ryan Michael English, age 24, of South Deerfield. Jacob describes her as a transgender woman but without a legal name change.

In Springfield Thursday, a grand jury indicted another South Deerfield resident — identified by the FBI as English's roommate — on charges of assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers or employees. Defendant James Gerard Pepe III, 25, also known as Judith Pepe, is accused of spitting in the face of an FBI agent Feb. 4. The agent was sent to their South Deerfield apartment to search for a laptop and other materials, according to a search warrant.

English had a letter addressed to "Judith" at the time of her arrest, according to court papers.

Pepe, who declined to comment, is free while charges are pending.

Pepe’s lawyer, Bernard T. O’Connor Jr., did not return calls seeking comment.

In D.C., Martin’s letter goes on to criticize one of Washington’s top Democrats — New York Sen. Charles Schumer — for comments in 2020 that conservative justices voting against abortion rights had "released the whirlwind."

Martin, a Trump loyalist who was in the crowd on Jan. 6, 2021, and has defended rioters from that day in court according to press reports, also vowed to protect the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency. Martin wrote that he’d had a conversation with a senior member of DOGE regarding threats made to people within the organization.

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