I mean seriously WTF? Is this someone with a beef against Villanova University or Radnor Police Department? Or do they just want to terrify parents of students and the community at large?
It came in at 11:30 AM for Austin Hall and people were at mass in the chapel according to NBC10!
Whomever is crying wolf needs to be stopped.
This is crazy. It’s move-in day at Villanova University. I don’t know but I would be hard-pressed not to pack up my freshman and take them back home. People are saying oh they’re shocked that someone got on campus.
For real?
You can get on campus easily enough, especially on move-in day maybe not with a car but all you have to do is walk on campus. It’s not a gated community.
Of course you see the unfortunate tweet as my friend said from Villanova about where are people living this year.
All I can say is, I hope everything ends OK and the students are safe. Who would think that you would find that at Villanova University in the heart of the Main Line ?
The media is saying, there are no reported victims at this time, and that came from Radnor police.
How long before this crap stops? 
Yeah so this blew up the news recently. A 37 year old woman named Catalina Baldwin from Phoenixville who was an employee of Oaks Early Learning Center in Oaks on Egypt Road.
The Oaks Early Learning Center used to have social media, it seems to have disappeared? Same owners as some place called Hopwood School and Camp (https://montco.today/2021/06/hopwood-school-and-camp-lansdale-sold-lower-merion-school-district/) Yes I verified it on the state website.
Here is some of what I saw on Compass, a PA website which has gotten rather cartoonish:
This is horrible. Parents want answers. Human beings in general want answers. Who hurt babies?
In early July, baby was taken to hospital from the daycare in what media reports tell us were dire circumstances. As this was unfolding, we all learned that something else happened to another baby in May.
WHPO DOES THIS?
https://www.fox29.com/news/montgomery-county-child-care-teacher-charged-assaulting-infants
This woman who I am not sure is in or out of jail at this point was a teacher in the infant room. So parents who have to put kids in daycare, who are they entrusting their kids to here? Also concerning? If there was some other sort of incident in MAY why was she still there in JULY? Is she still employed?
Also interesting? She has a Bill Cosby lawyer, doesn’t she? But then again he is one of the best.
I had shared story links to this when it first happened and then I randomly saw a comment today that made me wonder:
It was not the she is still employed comment as that has popped up here and there already, it was about the parents of kids there. Are they really and truly being shall we say discouraged from discussing this? So the owners don’t want kerfuffles in their Main Line existence? OK totally get this is their business in an uncertain time, but umm who are they hiring and wouldn’t they WANT their families to be able to talk about this an also to allay the fears of parents with kids there?
Truly I hope that is a misperception, misunderstanding, don’t you?
Also, this woman who was charged seemingly left a review of the daycare on Google? What kind of hot mess situation is that and why haven’t the owners contacted Google to have it removed?
So reading this you have to ask is this Catalina Baldwin who was charged a MOM? If so, where is her child right now?
I do not and never will understand people who hurt children. I was discussing this topic with a friend today. And we are old enough that we come from the dark ages of being a kid where stuff just wasn’t discussed or acted on a lot of the time.
Why aren’t we doing better today?
I just can’t with this and would be interested to see real reports of this daycare. But I don’t know any of us will get that because this is a criminal investigation now. So I guess that means no one will hear from daycare owners either, right?
This is just horrible all the way around.
Earlier this morning in Lincoln Court Shopping Center Chester County. Apparently that was the second time today?
Yes. ICE. I did NOT take the photos. Others who work there in the shopping center did.
Yes police know they are around. They are here on things based on active warrants. That hypothetically means it could be a more traditional criminal type of warrant or a warrant for expired visas, or someone who was previously deported and came back illegally.
Since this surfaced today, I will admit that it is a very odd feeling when it’s a place you specifically know. There are small businesses here, the driver’s license center, a Giant supermarket, state liquor store, oh and a Mexican restaurant that is a community favorite.
I get that the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers AKA ICE have a job to do but seeing it in our home communities? It strikes a sad, odd, uncomfortable, horrible chord.
This combined with Washington DC seeming to morph into a police state the past few days? What is our country becoming ironically as we prepare for the Semiquincentennial?
Purportedly, 2026 marks a time to celebrate the birth of American independence and democracy, but who and what are we now?
I just don’t know. It makes me sad.
I am sharing this because I just got a call from a local farmer in Willistown who called the police about this guy who showed up while he was doing something and his farm hands had to deal with this guy.
Unfortunately, by the time the farmer knew this guy had been there, he was gone, but a police report was filed.
Apparently this guy showed up on some kind of a scooter or hoverboard thing to them. But the reality is he came uninvited down a driveway that is really long. A place that can’t be any more clear about having security and posted private property don’t trespass.
And when the guy was discovered, he was nosing around the cows on the farm.
He didn’t seem to get the concept of private property, which couldn’t be posted any clearer at the beginning of the really long driveway. This guy has also shown up at other people’s s properties in Willistown and several other municipalities in Delaware and Chester Counties.
And he got caught on ring camera in a video posted yesterday to NextDoor. I’m about to show where he’s not only knocked on the door. He seemed to be checking for spare keys.
Now this is a common enough occurrence in the summer months, these random people who just show up. Either they’re selling something or you just find them wandering around your property. We had it in my neighborhood and surrounding neighborhoods with the random driveway resealing guy who ignores no trespassing signs and every year acts like you didn’t tell him the year before to get off your property.
But this guy seems to be off from the way people describe him and also seems to be looking for spare keys. So that somebody who’s trying to figure out when people are on and off of their own properties and in and out of their houses. opportunistic? Definitely and for what reason? I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to find out.
People are calling the police about this individual, which is not wrong, what he’s doing is wrong.
A friend of mine sent me a news report and a Facebook post from an animal rescue this morning. It blew me away and made me want to throw up at the same time.
At the end of May, the news in the region was filled with the horrible site of a barn, full of animals in Montgomery County, up in flames. It was known as House of Wiggle.
We all shared the articles and the GoFundMe raising money for the injured animals and family affected. The GoFundMe is up still and active.
The problem is the owner of this sanctuary or rescue or whatever the heck it was has just been charged with felony animal abuse.
For real.
Of course, a couple of weeks ago the person doing the GoFundMe had to put up a defend post because I guess things were starting to circulate?
Yeah so wonder what this Shaina thinks now?
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15k4dGgbM3/
I just don’t understand animal abuse. And these people have a lot of children as well as per the wife’s testimony in 2024:
The testimony says 11 children, and implies some special needs, are they OK? What happens to any animals on this farm now?
I guess I am incredulous to an extent of the amount of media coverage that these people got after their fire and now they’re facing a whole other level of public scrutiny, aren’t they?
https://patch.com/pennsylvania/lowerprovidence/fire-hits-farm-animal-sanctuary-montgomery-county
So they said the cause of the fire was electrical, which is not unusual in old barns is it?
But again, disbelief.How could they? How could they do this? How could they take money from people after this fire knowing how they treated the animals?
I guess once again this is a case of know your rescue?
This is horrible and tragically sad.
It looks like all the social media accounts for this rescue have disappeared.
https://nbcphiladelphia.app.link/7Mk636wNgVb
http://www.facebook.com/HouseofWiggleGoats
So we still don’t know really why, but law-enforcement had a play date at the Kreb’s house in East Whiteland again today on Conestoga Road. I have been told that today’s visit were the Chester County Detectives.
We first noticed earlier this afternoon this notice on East Whiteland‘s Facebook page:
Then this showed up as an update:
6ABC was out at the scene and I caught it on the 5 PM news. I don’t know if anyone else is covering this or not so I know residents are grateful for 6 ABC being there. more importantly residents are very grateful in East Whiteland for law enforcement and their handling of this. It has been a little unsettling for residents near that house, which is understandable.
Kevin Krebs has TWO separate court dates coming up.
I still haven’t seen anything posted to state whether or not Mr. Krebs will be facing Federal charges as well since the media reports also report the involvement of Federal law-enforcement agencies.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there was more media on this. And when I listened to the 6ABC reporter, I was somewhat gob smacked at the number of guns that the family turned in to law-enforcement that belonged to this man.
Also a related issue is I am sure we would all like to know why West Chester Borough Councilmen Bernie Flynn and Brian McGinnis allowed the Mayor of Downingtown to speak at a June meeting, but did not allow West Goshen Sunshine to ask a couple of simple questions?
West Goshen Sunshine attended this public meeting and got up and tried to speak at public comment to inquire as to the timeline of events at the No Kings Rally. She was interested in when Mr. Krebs was detained and arrested, and where that was in the whole scheme of the event that day. She also wondered when elected officials and event organizers were told about this?
Allow me to quote her:
The irony is hard to ignore: in the same town that held a “No Kings” rally, I was silenced at the Borough of West Chester meeting last night. Councilmen Bernie Flynn and Brian McGinnis have clearly crowned themselves gatekeepers of free speech–deciding who gets to speak and who doesn’t. That’s not leadership. That’s arrogance.
Fortunately, not every official in West Chester in as bombastic as Flynn and McGinnis.
https://www.dailylocal.com/2025/06/18/mayor-council-thank-police-for-response-at-no-kings-rally/ West Chester Borough Police Department
Edit Council member Nicole Scimone tried to let me speak but was drowned out by Flynn and McGinnis even though she was presiding over the meeting. Thanks for trying Nicole Scimone!
West Goshen Sunshine is well spoken and polite. I am appalled, but not necessarily surprised by the behavior of these two gentlemen in West Chester Borough.
I am not some Luddite, and I understand there are certain things the public are not going to be privy to at this stage of an investigation, and the same goes for West Goshen Sunshine. However, lots of people want to know what the timeline is for notification concerning this incident. Let’s face it if someone hadn’t blown up the original social media video so that we all saw it , how long would it have been before we knew this incident even happened?
I have felt since this happened that politics, not necessarily law enforcement tried to keep a lid on this.
Now to me, it would’ve made sense that the event organizers wanted everything to remain calm that day, because face it if lots and lots of people there on that day had known they just arrested a man with weapons it might have been chaos. And law enforcement did a tremendous job in a huge crowd.
However, I also wonder if politics kept this from getting out until that social media video from TikTok or whatever was released everywhere so we all saw it? And along those lines until people like myself and others started publicly thanking law enforcement, it seems like a lot of politicians weren’t.
Law enforcement has been amazing through this.
Anyway, if you listen to the media reports, it looks like there was at least one more weapon seized today and computers and who knows what else. People are still asking questions like was Krebs egged on by some group or something like that or did he always act alone on his own?
This has been a sad and scary situation. I hope that as Krebs has been a guest of the county that he has perhaps been getting mental health treatment? Because anyway you slice it, what almost happened that day and what they found in his house after that is not the act of a rational human being.
UPDATE: situation is resolved, and no one was hurt as per my information.
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Wherever Southern Drive is, other than West Whiteland Township, please stay out of the area and if you are in the area stay in your homes, there is serious police activity, and an emergency alert went out that is the equivalent of a shelter in place. My late father always said crazy things happen in extreme heat. Please be careful everyone.
We have seen this scene of the opening screenshot so many times now. It’s captured in time. It’s a tragedy that didn’t happen, but could have.
The law enforcement, a lot of whom were local, did an amazing job. There are people who went to the protest who have sort of fluffed this off as not being a big deal, and they need to get their head out of their asses because it could’ve been a very big deal. It could have been horrible beyond imagination here in our corner of the world.
And while I have seen article after article and TV story after TV story, talking about the perpetrator and what he was carrying, and then last evening they conducted a search of his house and found more things, but I haven’t had to read about, and I think there should be some public officials standing up and really praising those who keep us safe in our communities.
Law enforcement was simply amazing here. It might be their jobs, but they are heroes.
So you have from the date of the protest which was Saturday, June 14th, West Chester Borough Police Department, Chester County Sheriffs office, FBI. Then yesterday add East Whiteland Police Department, the county and a bomb squad, which would be the one from Montgomery County that Chester County has access to – they serve Montgomery , Chester and I think Bucks Counties. I think they are then part of a larger task force, so after things were discovered where the man originally arrested from Saturday lives, who knows who all else was there, which had to include ATF at this point and Chester County Detectives and more.
My point is all of this law enforcement did this smoothly and by the book, avoided serious catastrophe, death, injuries, mass panic and where please are the elected officials? One would have thought a presser would have at least occurred by yesterday given maybe by Mayor Lillian DeBaptiste of West Chester Borough and perhaps the Chester County Commissioners, since this happened literally in the county seat with say a backdrop of the Old County Courthouse or in front of the Chester County Justice Center thanking these brave law enforcement folks for living their training so excellently, right? But where is it?
Where is the Governor of Pennsylvania or State Senators and State Representatives serving the area, including East Whiteland where the defendant lives praising law enforcement for doing something so amazing and preventing catastrophe that you quite frankly don’t see enough do you?
Law enforcement on any level doesn’t do their job for glory, it’s what they are trained to do. But people need to say thank you, and what their actions has averted and by “people”, I mean elected officials. On the TV interviews every day residents and people are all saying thank you, but where are those folks elected to public office and I do not mean local supervisors and borough officials because they do say thank you. I mean the state, county, and higher.
I am saying thank you but I am just a blogger. So time to step it up officials, as our men and women in our corner of the world have done something amazing.
Now onto other things. The accused as far as I can tell is still out on bail and one of the TV reports said his whereabouts are unknown, which after all that has happened is not comforting. I was told he made bail because bond was posted. It was high bail ($250,000), it was made. We don’t have to be comfortable with this, but that is the system, and maybe for certain kinds of arrests, the system needs to change? I don’t have those answers.
Then people are talking about why his house wasn’t searched completely after Saturday? Again, from what we can tell from media reports, law enforcement at first only had a warrant to search his personal space with the home, his bedroom I guess? It is not solely his home, and public records show the home is owned by family member, probably parents? And from the 6ABC report Leland Pinder did last evening where the accused’s brother was interviewed, it is in fact a family home so they would have had to have obtained a second warrant to search the whole house as far as my research would indicate.
Then as to the gotcha armchair warriors on social media talking about the accused’s 2nd Amendment rights, the answer is pretty clear: no concealed carry permit. Take a gun safety glass, it’s one of the things people are taught. This will undoubtedly raise a back and forth on guns in this area again, but the thing is this: there needs to be better mental health requirements surrounding gun ownership. And for things like this when people are out on bail, would it be the worst thing to have the people accused of things like this to be on ankle monitors?
For sure, this sequence of events has indeed shaken Chester County and various municipalities up. But let’s take a moment to THANK law enforcement for what they have done with no loss of life, etc. It’s remarkable in today’s world.
Thanks for stopping by.
Allow me to preface what I am about to show you with this was a public post. It was sent to me then I found it and all little 🌎 globe meaning all public. I’m not infringing upon anyone’s copyright and you can see who posted it. I do not know if the same person who posted it was the same person who took the video.
Now I can answer that question above for this woman whom I don’t know about no media reports yet, and I will say based upon what she posts, her political views in the majority are completely different from mine. And that’s fine, to each their own, but she’s not wrong in questioning was this guy planning.
Now back to her asking why no media picked it up so far. That’s a simple answer because there are two reporters for the Daily Local. One does courts and crime, and the other does more generalized stories and has occasional overlap with the aforementioned crime reporter. But people, as far as a local paper, that’s it for the entire county. The paper is owned by a hedge fund that owns a mash up of a bunch of other local papers, and they miss a lot. Simply put, all of what is left of these local papers are lacking feet on the street and it’s not the editors’ fault there are NOT ENOUGH feet on the street. It’s because they’re owned by a hedge fund. A hedge fund in my opinion is not in it for the news, they’re in it because these are like distressed assets or something, aren’t they?
As for regional and television media, I think they were more interested in major metropolitan cities/areas because that’s where they expected a problem which is common sense in a way. Honestly, I don’t think they expected anything like this to turn up in West Chester. However, I’m jaded and I expect things like this to turn up anywhere.
I was not at the protest yesterday. And I had a feeling about all of these protests and figured this was simply not my scene. Maybe I just watch too many Nordic noir and ITV/BBC crime dramas. I actually asked a friend in her upper years to stay home. I know that probably annoyed her on some level, but she is treasured by me so I told her how I felt.
Anyway we don’t know why this happened or who this male person was. None of us are medical health professionals, so we can’t opine on that, and you hear about that in the video I’m about to share. I will say, however, in defense of whomever that was speaking in the background, that political extremists on either side are gaslighting things on message boards and social media in my opinion. It is also my opinion they are artificially inflating at times what is happening politically in this country, and honestly, the truth is bad enough.
We don’t know what political persuasion this person who was arrested was, or what they were doing there. But is this a first time people have exhibited extreme and potentially dangerous behavior like this? No, it is simply that social media didn’t exist in those times.
We don’t know what they were carrying other than what you could hear the police discussing on the video. And what you could see them removing from his person.
Either way that’s kind of something that really gives you pause doesn’t it if we can’t even have our inalienable right to a peaceful assembly, what are we coming to in this country?
And do I believe that this was a person on the same side as the people peacefully exercising their right to protest yesterday in West Chester? Honestly, no. I think it falls into the same category of the people who turned up at the protest in Philadelphia and then trashed the city. Individuals and seperate groups like this are more opportunistic or separatist. Perhaps I’m not explaining that eloquently enough, but that’s my gut check on it. This was ONE person yesterday as far as anyone knows.
All I do know is this puts regular people and law enforcement at risk.
Above all else it makes me sad to think that occurred in West Chester.
A little shout out to West Chester‘s public information officer. He deserves much credit for not ignoring this and addressing it. So many public information officers in municipalities everywhere today like to pretend things like this don’t happen. They only want to share the happy fluffy things and we definitely don’t live in a happy fluffy world.
Please be safe out there. Once again as Americans we are relearning the lesson that liberty and freedom aren’t necessarily free.
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