Ax-Wielding Kansas Proud Boy Sentenced To 4.5 Years

January 13, 2024 Crime, Trump cultists

From the Justice Department:

William Chrestman, 51, of Olathe, Kansas, was sentenced to 55 months in prison, 36 months of supervised release, and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy J. Kelly.

Chrestman pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding and threatening a federal officer, both felonies, on Oct. 16, 2023.

According to court documents, Chrestman, a second-degree member of the Proud Boys in the organization’s Kansas City chapter, made plans with other members of the group to travel to Washington, D.C., to, among other things, show their support for then-President Trump and protest Congress’ certification of the Electoral College vote.

On Jan. 5, 2021, Chrestman and other Proud Boys members arrived in Arlington, Virginia, where they stayed at a rental home that Chrestman described as the “safe house.”

On Jan. 6, 2021, Chrestman traveled from Arlington to Washington, D.C., with others and met up with a larger group of Proud Boys near the Washington Monument. Chrestman was wearing a tactical vest and protective gloves and carried a gas mask and a wooden axe handle with a flag attached to it.

After joining the large group of Proud Boys, Chrestman marched with them in the street near the U.S. Capitol while shouting, among other things, “Whose streets? Our streets.”

The group ultimately made their way to the west side of the Capitol’s grounds, outside of the restricted, fenced-off perimeter made up of barricades guarded by uniformed United States Capitol Police (USCP) officers.

At about 1:00 p.m., the crowd breached the line of barriers and surged toward the Capitol building. Chrestman and other Proud Boys he had been marching with moved forward as part of this crowd surge during this initial breach.

Chrestman then moved to the front of the crowd, where he encouraged other rioters by waving them forward and shouting, “Go! Go! Go!”

Court documents say that Chrestman pointed his finger at the officers armed with less-lethal munitions, gestured toward them with his axe handle, and shouted in their direction, “Hey, if you shoot, I’ll f— take your a— out.” When the defendant shouted this, he stood several feet away from multiple USCP officers.’

Chrestman later said of his actions, “We had the cops running through the f— State Building [sic], dude, trying to slam the emergency doors, like, the big garage door-type ones that segregate off the rooms, and we were throwing f— chairs under there to block it dude, to keep going down… The cops were legitimately scared for their f— lives.”

Read the full press release. His previous appearances here are below. Chrestman is a part of the “J6 Prison Choir” which issued a recording of the nation anthem featuring Trump’s participation on the song.



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