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.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 Force veteran killed while attempting to break through a barricade inside the Capitol Building, and that he was hit with mace several times.“I just made history,” Ridge said.In addition to Ridge’s own video posts on Snapchat, investigators…
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A Lower Southampton man spends 14 days in prison for capitol riots – Bucks County Courier Times
