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 Avers’ 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.  Both sides were to argue the matter today.  Avers, of Belleville, has pleaded not guilty to the felonies, accusing him of slipping sewing needles into packaged meat items at a Shop ‘n Save in Belleville from May 2013 through July.  One customer eventually bit into a needle, and another customer got stuck in the hand by a needle in a steak.  No serious injuries were reported from the needles, which the FBI said turned up in everything from ground beef to roasts and steaks.  The FBI said Avers told investigators he did it “just for the hell of it.”  Federal prosecutor Suzanne Garrison seized on that quote when initially opposing any bond for Avers, saying the comment reflected the man’s “utter indifference to the noteworthy risk of serious bodily injury or death that is associated with consumption of a needle.”