The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will not issue a permit for a planned 5K memorial run honoring the late Jan. 6 defendant Matthew Perna to cross the Shenango Dam near Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, saying it presents “security concerns” and could make it appear the corps endorses a political event in an election year.
Perna committed suicide on Feb. 25, 2022, after a 14-month ordeal with federal prosecutors who sought to jail him for more than four years.
He will be remembered at the Matthew Perna Freedom 5K on Oct. 15.
The planned race route includes crossing the nearly 70-foot-high Shenango Dam built by the Corps of Engineers from 1961-65 for regional flood control….