Tuesday, October 22

Man sentenced for BB gun assaults on California Planned Parenthood clinic

LOS ANGELES — A person who waged a year-long collection of BB gun assaults on a Southern California Planned Parenthood clinic was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal jail.

Richard Royden Chamberlin, 53, was sentenced Monday in Los Angeles federal courtroom, the U.S. legal professional’s workplace mentioned in a press release.

At least 11 assaults focused a Planned Parenthood facility in Pasadena between June 2020 and May 2021. No one was harm however an individual ready outdoors for a affected person was almost struck, employees was terrified and the constructing was broken, prosecutors mentioned.

Pasadena police stopped Chamberlin after a May 7, 2021, assault and located he had eight BB weapons and a backpack containing a loaded .22-caliber pistol.

The U.S. legal professional’s workplace mentioned that Chamberlin, who was convicted in Arizona in 2012 of felony tried transportation of a narcotic on the market, subsequently tried to promote or switch possession of different firearms. A search of his house discovered hundreds of rounds of ammunition, gun powder, a dozen BB weapons, and different weapons-related objects.

Chamberlin pleaded responsible in December 2022 to 1 depend of violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act and one depend of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.

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