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A former Navy SEAL was convicted Monday of leaving Texas with the intent of throwing explosives at law enforcement officers during the summer’s “No Kings Day” protests in San Diego, federal investigators said.
Gregory Vandenberg stopped at a New Mexico travel center on his way to the local protests and told the cashier he was buying dozens of fireworks to cause explosions that would hurt officers, officials said.
Vandenberg was convicted by a federal jury in Albuquerque of transportation of explosives with intent to kill, injure or intimidate and attempted transportation of prohibited fireworks into California. He faces a maximum sentence of 10 years behind bars.
“People in this country are free to hold their own beliefs and to express them peacefully,” said New Mexico Acting U.S. Attorney Ryan Ellison. “What they are not free to do is use explosives to threaten or terrorize others. Vandenberg intended to turn explosives into a tool of intimidation, and this verdict sends the message that attempts to substitute violence for expressing one’s opinion has no place in our communities and will be met with federal consequences.”
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