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Pizzagate update from the Daily Mail:
Aspiring male model who set fire to pizza shop is sentenced to 4 years
Ryan Jaselskis, 23, pleaded guilty in December to arson and assault on a police officer. The latter charge stemmed from a fight he had with a US Park Police officer who detained him at the Washington Monument.
Both prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed to the sentence that was then accepted by US District Judge Timothy J Kelly, the Washington Post reports.
Kelly shared in his ruling that the popular restaurant had been targeted in an unrelated attack in 2016 that made Jaselskis's crime 'that much more damaging.'
In the 2016 attack, Edgar Maddison Welch entered the pizzeria with an AR-15 rifle to investigate a viral internet rumor - 'Pizzagate' -about a child sex ring operating in the eatery's basement.
A motive has not been determined in Jaselskis's case but prosecutors felt that he needed a similar sentence as Welch's.
Assistant US Attorneys Dineen A Baker and Andrew Floyrd wrote that the cases were 'similarly situated.'
The defendants attorneys argued that their client was actually 'suffering from a diagnosed mental illness' and not an ill motive.
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