SANTA ANA, Calif. — A former U.S. Marine was sentenced Monday to 9 years in jail for firebombing a Southern California Planned Parenthood clinic in 2022, federal prosecutors prosecutors stated.
Chance Brannon, 24, pleaded responsible in November to 4 felony counts, together with malicious destruction of property by hearth and explosives and intentional injury to a reproductive well being companies facility.
Brannon, of San Juan Capistrano, California, additionally admitted that he made plans for further assaults on a second Planned Parenthood clinic, a Southern California Edison substation and an LGBTQ satisfaction night time celebration at Dodger Stadium, the U.S. Attorney’s Office stated in a assertion.
Brannon was an active-duty Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton on the time of the bombing on the clinic in Costa Mesa on March 13, 2022. Surveillance footage confirmed Brannon and one other particular person throwing a Molotov cocktail on the entrance door of the medical facility. The clinic was closed on the time and nobody was injured.
During the sentencing listening to, U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney stated Brannon “engaged in cruel and indefensible domestic terrorism.”
He has been in federal custody since his arrest in June 2023.
Brannon conspired with two others to make use of an explosive machine to destroy a industrial property, in response to his plea settlement.
His co-defendants, Tibet Ergul and Xavier Batten, have pleaded responsible to the costs in opposition to them. They are scheduled to be sentenced in May.
