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Fifth Bucks County Resident Charged In Capitol Riot
Nineteen-year-old Leonard Pearso Ridge is the latest Bucks County resident to be charged in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Peter Blanchard covers the communities of Doylestown and Newtown for Patch. Raised in Northeastern Pennsylvania, he is the founding editor of The Cortland Voice in upstate New York and a former freelance writer for The Morning Call in Allentown, PA. He was previously an on-air news anchor and reporter for Cayuga Radio Group in Ithaca, New York. He graduated from Ithaca College with a journalism degree in 2012. Email him at peter.blanchard@patch.com and follow him on Twitter @peterlblanchard
Nineteen-year-old Leonard Pearso Ridge is the latest Bucks County resident to be charged in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection.

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