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Leonard Pearson Ridge IV

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Leonard Pearson Ridge IV is a Bucks County, Pennsylvania man, a Neshaminy High School graduate from the Levittown / Bensalem area, whose January 6 case ended with a full presidential pardon on January 20, 2025. He was 19 years old at the time of the events on January 6, 2021. He is from working-class Bucks County, and local Patch coverage identified him as a Neshaminy High grad. That context matters and belongs in the record. Case record: Leonard Pearson Ridge IV was arrested in May 2021 and had his initial appearance on June 3, 2021. He was indicted June 16, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, case 1:21-cr-406. He entered a plea agreement on October 1, 2021 and pleaded guilty to Count 2. On January 4, 2022 he was sentenced to 14 days of incarceration, one year of supervised release, 100 hours of community service, a $1,000 fine, and $500 restitution. FACT: Leonard Ridge pleaded guilty to a single count and served 14 days. That is the entire custodial record. CHARGE ONLY / DOCUMENTED INFERENCE: Newsweek coverage noted that his defense counsel argued at sentencing that as a 19-year-old his brain was not fully matured, a mitigation argument, not a legal finding. Those are defense representations preserved with the source. On January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump granted a full pardon covering the January 6 prosecutions. Leonard Pearson Ridge IV of Bucks County, Pennsylvania was among those covered by that clemency. Case: 1:21-cr-406, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Newsweek, Bensalem Patch, Levittown Patch, and Law and Crime coverage of Leonard Ridge are linked in this archive. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.