Two attorneys arrested for their involvement in an alleged Molotov cocktail attack on a New York City Police Department vehicle in Brooklyn returned to jail Friday after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted prosecutors’ request for an emergency stay.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York filed for the stay pending appeal after U.S. District Judge Margo Brodie ruled that the defendants, Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis, could be released to home confinement with electronic monitoring and $250,000 bail.

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