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A man from California with a history of mental illness was sentenced Thursday to four years in federal prison for setting a fire last year inside the Comet Ping Pong pizza shop in Northwest Washington.

Ryan Jaselskis, 23, pleaded guilty in December to arson and assault on a police officer, a charge stemming from a fight with a U.S. Park Police officer who arrested him at the Washington Monument.

U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly in Washington accepted the sentence that was agreed to ahead of time by prosecutors and defense attorneys.

In delivering his ruling, Kelly noted that the popular restaurant that features ping-pong tables had been targeted in an unrelated attack in 2016, when Edgar Maddison Welch entered with an AR-15 rifle seeking to investigate a viral Internet rumor of a child sex ring in the basement of the Chevy Chase eatery.

The judge said the fire set against that backdrop made Jaselskis’s crime “that much more damaging.”

While authorities have not been able to provide a specific motive behind Jaselskis’s attack, prosecutors said his sentence should match the four-year sentence that Welch received. Assistant U.S. attorneys Dineen A. Baker and Andrew Floyd wrote in court papers that the cases are “similarly situated.”

Jaselskis’s attorneys with the Federal Public Defender’s office drew contrasts with Welch, saying their client wasn’t drawn to Comet Ping Pong with a mission but rather was “suffering from a diagnosed mental illness.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/man-who-set-fire-at-comet-ping-pong-pizza-shop-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison/2020/04/23/2e107676-8496-11ea-a3eb-e9fc93160703_story.html