Feasterville man, 19, to spend 14 days in jail on Jan. 6 Capitol riot charges. Here's how …

A 19-year-old Feasterville man will spend 14 days behind bars for his involvement with the attempt to overturn the 2020 Presidential Election.Prosecutors were seeking a 45-day sentence for Leonard Pearso Ridge, whose lawyers asked U.S. District Judge James Boasberg sentence Ridge only to probation.Boasberg instead gave Ridge a two-week prison sentence, 100 hours of community service and a $1,000 fine.Boasberg said last Tuesday it was the Neshaminy High School graduate’s age that kept Ridge from serving the full sentence, but his text messages before and after the riots made some jail time appropriate.Ridge was arrested in May 2020 in Lower Southampton after at least three witnesses told federal investigators last January about social media posts Ridge made chronicling his time inside the Capitol Building.A Snapchat photo taken by Leonard Pearso Ridge IV, of Feasterville, inside the Capitol Building on Jan. 6. Ridge was sentenced to 14 days in prison, 100 hours of community service and fined $1,000 last week.Ridge told another Snapchat user on Dec. 29 that the election was stolen from former President Donald Trump and that “something big will happen in this nation very soon.”On Jan. 6, Ridge claimed he saw the shooting of Ashley Babbitt, the Air…
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