Richard Michetti of Ridley Park was sentenced to nine months in federal prison Tuesday for joining the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, writes Jeremy Roebuck for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Michetti, 29, a union construction worker, was turned in to the FBI by his ex-girlfriend after he called her a “moron” when she failed to believe the Democrats had stolen the 2020 presidential election.

Michetti was texting his ex on Jan. 6, 2021, as he joined an angry mob of Donald Trump supporters taunting and harassing police as they breached the Capitol’s Upper West Terrace doors.  

During his sentencing hearing Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper in Washington, Michetti apologized to police, his family, and the “average Americans who were engaged and fearful by the events that occurred that day.”

“Even though I thought the vote was not fair,” he said, “it does not give anyone the right to act in such a way.”

The sentence also includes a $2,000 restitution order and a two-year probation upon release. It was one of the stiffer sentences handed down so far to the 23 Pennsylvanians who also participated in the insurrection.

Read more at The Philadelphia Inquirer about the sentencing of U.S. Capital rioter Richard Michetti from Ridley Park.

Richard Michetti’s sentencing was covered by Morning Joe on MSNBC.