READING, Pa. – A Berks County man will spend up to four decades behind bars for the death of his infant son.<\/p>\n
Joshua Leas was ordered Friday to serve between nine and 40 years in a state prison.<\/p>\n
Leas pleaded “no contest” to third-degree murder last month. That means Leas didn’t admit guilt, but he also didn’t oppose the charge.<\/p>\n
Police arrested Leas in 2017 after authorities said he “violently shook” 4-month-old Logan Jeffrey Leas. The infant was rushed to Reading Hospital, where medical examinations revealed bleeding in the brain.<\/p>\n
The baby was transferred to Hershey Medical Center, where he died three days later. An autopsy revealed the cause of death to be a traumatic head injury, officials said.<\/p>\n
Leas owned Designs by Leas in Wyomissing and served as president of the Reading Hockey League, according to his social media profile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – A Berks County man will spend up to four decades behind bars for the death…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,31,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-183482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-crime","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}