{"id":190659,"date":"2026-05-12T23:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T23:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/190659\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T23:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T23:57:08","slug":"man-who-walked-openly-with-guns-in-kensington-charged-da-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/190659\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who walked openly with guns in Kensington charged: DA \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man who went viral on social media for walking around Philadelphia<\/a>‘s Kensington neighborhood with an AR style rifle has been criminally charged, District Attorney Larry Krasner announced on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

At a press conference on Tuesday, Krasner said that the man charged, Kobe Artis, was seen in a social media video handing over an AR style rifle and a handgun to a person who is prohibited from possessing firearms.<\/p>\n

“The heinous actions of Defendant Kobe\u00a0Artis are\u00a0disgraces to our Philadelphia community. Walking around like a one-man army is absolutely intimidating, frightening, disturbing and troubling to witness,” Krasner said. “Defendant Artis is not a role model for anyone. His unlawful actions will be appropriately prosecuted and he will be held accountable.”<\/p>\n

The video was posted on May 4 and sent over to the D.A.’s office by Philadelphia City Councilmember Quetcy Lozada, whose district includes part of Kensington. <\/p>\n

“This individual thought it was ok to walk around, misinform, and illegally connect individuals with firearms,” Lozada said. “I\u2019m grateful he is off the streets because our community is a little safer tonight. One less illegal weapon off our streets is one step closer to the safer environment that Kensington residents deserve.”<\/p>\n

Artis faces two felony counts of illegal transfer of firearms and several other related firearm charges. Krasner said that Artis is in custody and that his office is asking for $2.5 million bail.<\/p>\n

As of around 7 p.m. on Tuesday, no further updates on Artis’ judicial status were available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who went viral on social media for walking around Philadelphia‘s Kensington neighborhood with an AR style…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8921,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-190659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-kensington","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190659","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=190659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}