A Toquerville resident who is running for the Washington County School Board was sentenced Monday for his involvement in the U.S. Capitol riot.
Willard Jake Peart inside U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021.
The Toquerville resident is running in District 5 of the school board, which covers most of Hurricane and the eastern part of Washington County. Peart faces Hurricane residents David Stirland, who is the incumbent, and Edyth Land in the primary election on June 28. Prosecutors initially asked Peart to be sentenced to 30 days in jail because he was asking where senators were on Jan. 6 and was chanting Sen. Mitt Romney’s name. Peart later told an FBI agent that “it’s probably a good thing that I didn’t see him.”
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