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NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia (AP) -- A man convicted of trying to extort half a million dollars from a restaurant by claiming his mother found a mouse in her soup was sentenced Thursday to one year in jail.
Ricky Lee Patterson, 23, of Hampton, Virginia, also was ordered to pay a $2,500 fine.
A jury found Patterson guilty in April of one count of conspiracy to commit extortion. His mother, Carla Patterson, was convicted on the same charge and was sentenced to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine in July.
The Pattersons tried to extort $500,000 in 2004 when they claimed they found a mouse in soup that Carla Patterson had ordered at a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Newport News on Mother's Day. The restaurant is part of a national chain.
Charges were filed after a necropsy showed the mouse had no soup in its lungs and had not been cooked.
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