EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — A southwestern Illinois man accused of inserting what prosecutors called “booby trap” sewing needles into packaged supermarket meats has asked a federal judge to reconsider denying him bond.

Ronald Ayers’ public defender, in a motion filed Friday, seeks to overturn a magistrate judge’s finding last month the 68-year-old man remain jailed on seven felony product-tampering counts because no conditions of his release would reasonably ensure the public’s safety, as prosecutors insisted.