Multiple Capitol riot defendants got permission to leave house arrest to celebrate Thanksgiving

• Three Capitol riot defendants were allowed to spend Thanksgiving out of home detention, per reports.
• The men, who are from different states, were all granted permission to travel over the holiday.

Three Capitol riot defendants on home detention were granted permission to travel for the Thanksgiving holiday, according to multiple reports.

Donovan Crowl, Grady Owens, Joseph Hutchinson all made formal court requests to travel over the holiday without violating their pretrial release conditions, Newsweek reported.

The three men face some of the more serious charges relating to the January 6 attack.

Crowl, a member of the Oath Keepers, the right-wing paramilitary group, is accused of conspiracy to storm the Capitol, The Daily Beast reported. He was released from jail and placed under pretrial house arrest in Ohio in August, the Springfield News-Sun reported.

On November 18, Amit Mehta, a US district court judge in Washington, DC, granted him permission to spend the holiday at his sister's home in another part of Ohio between November 24 and November 26, NBC4's Scott MacFarlane tweeted.

Owens, a college student from Florida, was charged with striking a Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police officer over the head with a skateboard, according to a Department of Justice statement.

The 21-year-old, who lives in Western Texas, was detained at home and issued a location monitoring device, Newsweek reported.

On November 18, a state judge granted him permission to travel to Harris County in South Texas for two days to spend Thanksgiving with his family, the HuffPost reporter Ryan J. Reilly tweeted, citing court documents.

—Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) November 18, 2021

The third defendant, Hutchinson, got his Thanksgiving travel request granted by a judge on November 23, NBC4's MacFarlane tweeted.

Though he is also currently on home detention at his house in Georgia, Hutchinson asked to travel to Lakeland, Florida, where he is originally from.

He was among a group of five Floridians accused of attacking law enforcement officers with riot shields and flagpoles, prosecutors said.

MacFarlane, who has been covering the Capitol riot trials extensively, previously said that it was not unusual for courts to allow predetermined requests for short travel ahead of trial, citing a conversation with a former federal prosecutor.