Former Marine sentenced to 9 years in prison for firebombing Planned Parenthood clinic
A neo-Nazi former U.S. marine who firebombed a Planned Parenthood clinic in California in an act of "hateful extremism" — and planned attacks on a LGBT event and on Jewish families — was sentenced to 9 years in federal prison on Monday.
A neo-Nazi former U.S. marine who firebombed a Planned Parenthood clinic in California in an act of "hateful extremism" — and planned attacks on a LGBT event and on Jewish families — was sentenced to 9 years in federal prison on Monday.
District Judge Cormac J. Carney said that Chance Brannon, 24, "engaged in cruel and indefensible domestic terrorism" while stationed at Camp Pendleton,
Brannon pleaded guilty in November last year to one count of conspiracy, one of malicious destruction of property by fire and explosives for the clinic attack in 2022, and one count of possession of an unregistered destructive device.
Brannon, from San Juan Capistrano, was also told to pay $1,000 in restitution. He has been in federal custody since he was arrested and charged in 2023.
Mehtab Syed, acting assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office, said that law enforcement efforts prevented more acts of domestic terrorism.
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