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by Chris Palmer Published Oct. 9, 2025, 12:28 p.m. ET

A South Jersey man who was arrested in Washington, D.C. over the weekend and charged with possessing a cache of explosives inside a tent he’d set up near a Mass intended to honor the Supreme Court was ordered Thursday to be jailed until trial.

Prosecutors said during a brief hearing in Washington’s Superior Court that Louis Geri, 41, of Vineland, posed a significant danger to the public. They said that was evident from Geri’s decision to build a tent Sunday outside St. Matthew’s Cathedral before the Red Mass — an annual event marking the start of a new Supreme Court term — and fill it with more than 200 homemade explosive device

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