Federal authorities said the Marine, Chance Brannon, and another man sparked a small fire last March at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Costa Mesa
On Wednesday morning, agents from the FBI and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service arrested Cpl. Chance Brannon, a 23-year-old San Juan Capistrano resident, as well as Tibet Ergul, 21, of Irvine, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles.Both were expected to make an initial appearance Wednesday in federal court in Santa Ana, according to prosecutors.
“The depraved act of launching an improvised explosive device into a public facility put lives at risk and will not be tolerated,” Donald Alway, the FBI’s assistant director in charge of the Los Angeles field office, said in a news release. The Marine Corps said it does not comment on legal matters but provided Brannon’s service record, which showed he enlisted in 2018 and is assigned to 1st Radio Battalion, I Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group with a military occupational specialty as a Persian-Farsi cryptolinguist.
In a statement citing the criminal complaint, prosecutors said Brannon and Ergul, dressed in hoodies, masks and gloves, approached the facility around 1 a.m. on March 13, 2022, and ignited a glass bottle filled with gasoline that they threw at the building’s front door. The device landed against a wall and sparked a fire that spread up the wall and across the ceiling above the clinic’s glass doors, prosecutors said.
Brannon is at least the fourth local Marine charged or convicted of federal crimes this year. Last month, Cpl. Micah Coomer
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