Former Marine pleads guilty in California Planned Parenthood firebomb attack
A former Marine pleaded guilty Thursday in a 2022 firebombing attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic in California, federal prosecutors said.
A former Marine pleaded guilty Thursday in a 2022 firebombing attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic in California, federal prosecutors said.
Chance Brannon, 24, is one of three men charged in the Molotov cocktail attack on the building in Costa Mesa, which occurred while Brannon was an active-duty Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton, officials said.
No one was hurt in the March 13, 2022, incident, which occurred in the early morning when no one was there. The front entrance had some burn damage, and the clinic had to reschedule about 30 appointments.
The Planned Parenthood clinic in Costa Mesa, Calif.Google MapsThe U.S. attorney’s office for Central California said Brannon discussed other attacks, which were not carried out.
That included discussions about trying to burn down a second Planned Parenthood facility and that Brannon and another person who was charged “discussed starting a race war” by attacking a power substation, the U.S. attorney’s office said in a statement.
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