The Justice Department announced charges against a third person who allegedly participated in a firebombing attack on a California Planned Parenthood last spring
Xavier Batten, 21, of Brooksville, Florida, was arrested Friday and is being held in custody, according to prosecutors. He is charged alongside Chance Brannon, a 23-year-old active-duty Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton, and Tibet Ergul, 21, of Irvine, California. All three men are charged with conspiracy and malicious destruction of property by fire and explosion, each of which carries between five and 20 years in prison.
Brannon and Ergul allegedly identified which building they wanted to attack and bought materials to assemble a Molotov cocktail. Brannon and Ergul allegedly put the Molotov cocktail together, while Batten “advised and directed” Brannon on the process, according to prosecutors. On March 13, prosecutors said, the two threw the Molotov cocktail at the door of the clinic.
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