A Pasco Jan. 6 defendant ordered to stay away from Washington, D.C., has apparently continued to stay in the area, allegedly harassing a congressman and trying to join the Pentagon press corps.

Taylor Taranto, 39, was previously ordered to stay away from the nation’s capital after his conviction on weapons charges and a threat to blow up a federal building.

On Friday, he was ordered by a federal judge to return to Washington state or risk a probation violation.

While court documents don’t detail what happened at the Friday hearing, a Politico reporter was in the courtroom when U.S. Attorneys told Judge Carl D. Nichols that Taranto apparently was livestreaming near the home of Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland.

The sealed complaint presented in court was a letter from Raskin’s staffers, acc

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