Patricia McCloskey and her husband Mark McCloskey pleaded guilty to misdemeanor crimes on Thursday.

Patricia McCloskey and her husband Mark McCloskey pleaded guilty to misdemeanor crimes on Thursday.

The wealthy husband-and-wife team who were slapped with criminal charges for waving guns at Black Lives Matter protesters in St.

Louis, Mo., last year, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges in court on Thursday and agreed to give up the guns seized during the investigation.

Patricia McCloskey, who menaced the marching crowd with her finger on the trigger of a handgun, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment and was ordered to pay a fine of $2,000.

Her husband, Mark McCloskey, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor fourth-degree assault for threatening the passersby with an AR-15 rifle.

"But," he added, "if faced with a similar or same situation it's something [Mark McCloskey] would do again.".

Patricia and Mark McCloskey threatened a group of nonviolent Black Lives Matter protesters armed with a semi-automatic handgun and an AR-15 nearly a year ago.

Patricia and Mark McCloskey threatened a group of nonviolent Black Lives Matter protesters armed with a semi-automatic handgun and an AR-15 nearly a year ago.