{"id":128771,"date":"2026-03-03T21:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/128771\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T21:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:24:14","slug":"scranton-man-accused-of-pointing-gun-at-no-kings-protestors-pleads-guilty-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/128771\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton man accused of pointing gun at &#8216;No Kings&#8217; protestors pleads guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man from Scranton has pleaded guilty after police say he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/article\/news\/local\/luzerne-county\/no-kings-luzerne-county-wilkes-barre-police-firearm-pointed-at-protestors-michael-kolarik\/523-1291f612-d8c0-4e75-adc0-97e44c3ee417\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:pointed a gun at protestors in Wilkes-Barre last year.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">pointed a gun at protestors in Wilkes-Barre last year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police arrested Michael Kolarik at a &#8216;No Kings&#8217; protest in Public Square in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A witness told police she saw him pointing a gun at her with his finger on the trigger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kolarik pleaded guilty on Friday to simple assault and disorderly conduct in Luzerne County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man from Scranton has pleaded guilty after police say he pointed a gun at protestors in Wilkes-Barre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[711,7655,4865,7957,178,180,179,2685],"class_list":["post-128771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-disorderly-conduct","tag-michael-kolarik","tag-protestors","tag-public-square","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-wilkes-barre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}