The man who lit a fire at Comet Ping Pong, the Washington, D.C., pizza parlor at the center of the baseless “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory, pleaded guilty to committing arson on Tuesday.
Ryan “Rimas” Jaselskis, a Los Angeles-based actor who entered the courtroom clad in an orange jumpsuit, admitted that he had started the Jan. 23 fire. The 23-year-old also pleaded guilty to resisting a law enforcement officer during a Feb. 4 brawl at the Washington Monument, where Jaselskis had jumped the chain-link fence and was tased by U.S. Park Police in a video captured by a bystander and posted on social media. Jaselskis was released after that incident and ordered to keep away from the monument, but jumped the fence again the next day and was caught. Jaselskis’s distinctive jacket connected him to a surveillance video of the pizza parlor arson, and a witness also identified him as the suspect. He was subsequently arrested.
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