West PA Rioter Convicted, Pgh. Getting Music Venue & More: Weekly Wrap

PITTSBURGH, PA — It's been said that you reap what you sow, and when you sowed using pepper spray on a police officer while attempting to overthrow the government, prepare to be reaped.

That's the costly lesson learned this week by Peter Schwartz, 49, of Uniontown, Fayette County, who was convicted this week on a variety of charges related to his participation in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.

Not only did he pepper spray police officers, he threw a folding chair at them. Impolite, to say the least.

He faces decades in prison when he is sentenced early next year.

Now for the rest of the Weekly Wrap:

• Plans are advancing for a new music venue and garage to be built on the old Civic Arena site.

• Brittney Griner is home safe and sound from Russia. Why isn't an Oakmont teacher imprisoned there for similar charges to hers back in the United States?

• The mother of the 4-year-old girl slain outside of a Pittsburgh grocery succumbed to her own wounds from the shooting.

• A former Pittsburgh radio personality died in a car crash.