YOUNGSTOWN — U.S. District Court Judge Patricia Gaughan on Wednesday revoked the furlough she had granted earlier to James P. Reardon, 21, of New Middletown to attend his grandmother’s funeral Saturday.

Her ruling stated she was rescinding the 7 1/2-hour furlough from the Mahoning County Adult Justice Center “for all the reasons” the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio gave in a motion it filed Tuesday. Reardon would have been freed from jail from 1:30 p.m. until 9 p.m.

The motion advised the judge that personnel at the Mahoning County jail reviewed recorded Feb. 21 phone calls Reardon made from the jail in which he indicated he did not want to attend the memorial but would instead visit with a friend or friends.

Reardon, who is being detained in the jail on federal charges of making threats to the Jewish Community Center of Youngstown on July 11, 2019, on the social media site Instagram, was granted the furlough Feb. 20.

The request for the furlough from attorney Ross Smith of Youngstown said Reardon wanted to attend the memorial service to “properly pay respects to his grandmother and to immediately return to the Mahoning County jail.” The service is from 4 to 8 p.m. at a Boardman banquet center.

The request for furlough said prosecutors did not oppose the request.

But Herdman and assistant U.S. Atttorney David Toepfer asked Gaughan on Tuesday to revoke the furlough she granted based on phone calls Feb. 21 to Reardon’s mother and others.

In one, Reardon told his mother he did not want to go to the memorial because it would be a bad experience and he did not want to be “judged,” the motion says.

In another, Reardon “hinted to a friend that he would be at his friend Nick’s house on the Saturday he gets out.” And in a call to another friend, he said he “will be going to his friend Nick’s house on the Saturday he gets out.”

The motion states the phone calls make it “apparent that Reardon does not have a genuine desire to ‘pay respects’ to his grandmother and, instead, plans to use the furlough to visit with friends.”

Reardon has been locked up at the county jail since his arrest in August.

In the July 11 video on Instagram, Reardon is seen holding a rifle in multiple firing positions with audio of gunshots and sound effects of sirens and people screaming in the background, authorities said.

The video is captioned: ‘the police have identified the shooter of the Jewish Community Center as local white nationalist Seamus O’Rearedon” – Seamus being the Gaelic version of the name James.

Reardon is charged with transmitting an interstate communication threat and one count of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.

Reardon is set for trial April 21 in U.S. District Court with a pretrial hearing April 7.

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