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Brian DiPippa

In Custody
Date of birth:01. 10. 1986
Age:39
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:2020s
Inmate Number:#66590-510
State:Pennsylvania
Address:202 S Washington St, Butler, PA 16001
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year 8 Months 6 Days
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Anti-Fascism
Brian DiPippa

Biography

Brian DiPippa along with his wife Krystal are left wing political activists in the Pittsburgh PA area. While protesting a talk being given by far right commentator Michael Knowles, an individual threw a smoke bomb towards the sidewalk of the event center where Knowles was speaking and a firecracker in the direction of police. A month later on May 19th, heavily armed agents raided the home of Brian and his wife and nearly two months after that both were accused of throwing the smoke bomb and indicted in federal court on charges of conspiracy and obstructing law enforcement. While his wife was released the same day, Brian DiPippa was ordered to be held in pretrial detention where he remains held without bail.

Case

Charges: Conspiracy to obstruct law enforcement
Arrested: May 3, 2023
Sentenced: Jan 5, 2025
Incarcerated: Jan 5, 2025
Sentence: 5 years (60 months) in federal prison; $1,400 restitution to the University of Pittsburgh and approximately $47,000 in restitution to a UPP officer injured by the firework. (His wife and co-defendant Krystal DiPippa was separately sentenced January 6, 2025 to 3 years of federal probation on a single obstruction count.) Verdict as recorded: Yes — pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, August 5, 2024 Charges as recorded: Conspiracy to obstruct law enforcement during civil disorder (18 U.S.C. § 231(a)(3)); obstructing law enforcement during civil disorder — for igniting two homemade smoke devices and a large firework that injured several University of Pittsburgh police officers during the April 18, 2023 student protest of conservative commentator Michael Knowles' campus debate on transgender rights
Prosecutor: Shaun E. Sweeney
Judge: W. Scott Hardy (W.D. Pa.)
Indicted: Jun 27th 2023
Convicted: Yes
Plead: Not-Guilty