{"id":243350,"date":"2026-07-14T19:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/243350\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:36:07","slug":"pennsylvania-man-who-brought-gun-to-no-kings-rally-sentenced-to-3-years-in-prison-for-explosives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/243350\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania man who brought gun to &#8220;No Kings&#8221; rally sentenced to 3 years in prison for explosives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pennsylvania <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/no-kings-west-chester-pa-arrest\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">man who brought a gun and other weapons<\/a> to a rally in West Chester last year has been sentenced to more than three years behind bars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge sentenced Kevin Krebs, 32, of Malvern, Pennsylvania, to 37 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possessing unregistered explosive devices, officials announced Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Krebs was arrested on June 14, 2025, in the area of North High Street in West Chester, near a &#8220;No Kings&#8221; protest against President Trump&#8217;s deportation policies and other actions by his administration.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested Krebs with a fully loaded concealed Sig Sauer P320 handgun under a yellow raincoat, an M9 bayonet, a pocket knife, pepper spray, a ski mask and gloves. Court documents showed police also found an AR-15-style rifle on the floor of Kreb&#8217;s SUV. Investigators said Krebs did not have a concealed carry permit.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators found over a dozen improvised explosive devices, including pipe bombs, at his home on Conestoga Road days after his arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/kevin-krebs-bombs-guns-no-kings-protest-guilty\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Krebs pleaded guilty<\/a> to the federal charges in December.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A state case against Krebs is still pending.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pennsylvania man who brought a gun and other weapons to a rally in West Chester last year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1557,28,30,29,53118],"class_list":["post-243350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-chester-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-west-chester-pa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243350","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=243350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}