CONCORD — A Bridgewater man is the latest Granite Stater caught up in the fallout from last week’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol after FBI agents arrested him Wednesday.
Thomas Gallagher, 61, appeared in U.S. District Court in Concord on Thursday via video for a removal hearing that now sends his case to the federal court in Washington, D.C.
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