Ridenour was charged Tuesday with Transportation of Child Pornography and possession of child pornography. The day the charges were filed in federal court, Ridenour was arrested by U.S. Marshals around 1:30 p.m. at his home on Greyhawk Drive in Fort Wayne’s Cherry Hill residential area. He was being held as a federal inmate at the Noble County Jail.

On the night of Feb. 19, 2023, Brandon Golden and Daisha “Twink” Fitts walked out of the Fraternal Order of Eagles casino on Bluffton Road at 11:23 p.m., got into Golden’s van and left happy, pulling out on to Winchester Road Six minutes later, Golden was frantically speeding back into the casino parking lot, his friend Daisha, a beloved local barber, dying between the passenger and the back seat after she was shot in an ambush at Winchester and Airport Expressway.