Marine Pleads Guilty To Firebombing Abortion Clinic And Plotting To Bomb LGBTQ Pride Night At Dodger Stadium

From the Justice Department:

An Orange County man pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges for firebombing a Planned Parenthood clinic in March 2022 and admitted to plotting other attacks.

Chance Brannon, 24, of San Juan Capistrano, who was an active-duty Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton at the time of the offense, also admitted to making plans for additional attacks on a second Planned Parenthood clinic, a Southern California Edison substation, and an LGBTQ pride night celebration at Dodger Stadium.

Brannon pleaded guilty to all counts of the four-count indictment: conspiracy, malicious destruction of property by fire and explosives, possession of an unregistered destructive device, and intentional damage to a reproductive health services facility – a violation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.

According to his plea agreement, in February and March of 2022, Brannon and his co-defendants – Tibet Ergul, 22, of Irvine, and Xavier Batten, 21, of Brooksville, Florida – conspired to use a Molotov cocktail to destroy a commercial property.

Brannon possessed several items on the gear list, including a specific rifle with “Total [N-word] Death” written in Cyrillic and a recording of the 2019 Christchurch, New Zealand, mosque shooting, in which a white supremacist murdered 51 people and injured 40 others.

Throughout the early summer of 2023, Brannon and Ergul also discussed and researched how to attack Dodger Stadium on a night celebrating LGBTQ pride, including by using a remote-detonated device.

As part of those conversations, Brannon shared a “WW2 sabotage manual” with Ergul, discussed doing “dry runs” to “case” the stadium, and conducted research on Ted Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber. Brannon and Ergul were arrested two days before the event.

Read the full press release.

Chance Brannon, 24, of San Juan Capistrano and ex-U.S. Marine, pleaded guilty to firebombing a planned parenthood clinic in Orange County and admitted to planning additional attacks. Details here: https://t.co/Cg1DLr6924 pic.twitter.com/hXoxOwQ2iU

— FBI Los Angeles (@FBILosAngeles) November 30, 2023

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