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Michael Wallschlaeger was an anarchist radio producer arrested with Elliot Madison in the Pittsburgh G20 protest communications case in September 2009. A first-person account of the Tortuga collective raids reports about 30 hours of actual detention in Allegheny County Jail before bail.
Michael Wallschlaeger was an anarchist radio producer arrested with Elliot Madison in the Pittsburgh G20 protest communications case in September 2009. A first-person account of the Tortuga collective raids reports about 30 hours of actual detention in Allegheny County Jail before bail. The account describes approximately 30 hours in Allegheny County Jail before bail and reports that the Pennsylvania prosecution withdrew the charges in November 2009 in the furtherance of justice. The account conflicts internally about the September arrest day, so only month precision is used. A separate October 1 New York parking-ticket detention was immediately dismissed and is not assigned a substantive imprisonment period.
The Harvard Digital Media Law Project case entry dates the Pennsylvania arrest of Elliott Madison and Michael Wallschlaeger to September 24, 2009. Contemporary reporting based on the state police criminal complaint corroborates that date. This resolves the internally conflicting arrest-day references in the existing first-person account. The approximately thirty-hour detention remains documented without assigning a guessed jail-admission or release calendar day; the unknown-total flag is preserved.
