{"id":55613,"date":"2025-11-19T03:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T03:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/55613\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T03:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T03:48:06","slug":"ohio-man-sentenced-for-crimes-relating-to-el-paso-county-2024-commissioner-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/55613\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio man sentenced for crimes relating to El Paso County 2024 Commissioner race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; On Monday, the Fourth Judicial District Attorney\u2019s Office said an Ohio man has been sentenced for crimes related to the 2024 El Paso County Commissioner race. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the DA, a significant number of petition signatures were flagged by the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder\u2019s Office in connection with David Leinweber\u2019s 2024 campaign for El Paso County Commissioner, District 3. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The DA said the signatures were submitted by 29-year-old Juan Pichardo, then employed by a petition signature-gathering company subcontracted to support Leinweber\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During the investigation, the DA said it was determined that there was probable cause that Pichardo had committed a crime. He was then extradited from his home in Ohio and arrested on suspicion of hundreds of counts of election forgery and perjury-election offenses, the attorney\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the attorney\u2019s office, Pichardo had pled guilty to 10 counts of Election Forgery, a class 5 felony, and 39 counts of Perjury-Election Offense, a class 2 misdemeanor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Pichardo was sentenced to two years of supervised probation and is being held financially responsible for the costs incurred by the prosecution and extradition, the DA said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KKTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; On Monday, the Fourth Judicial District Attorney\u2019s Office said an Ohio man has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-55613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}