73 yr old Illinois man receives5 yr prison sentence after driving into abortion clinic, trying to set it on fire

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

A 73-year-old man was sentenced to five years in prison on Monday after he tried to prevent the construction of an abortion clinic in Illinois by crashing his car into a building and attempting to set it on fire, authorities said. O

After his prison sentence Philip Buyno, of Prophetstown, must pay $327,547 in restitution and will be under supervised released for three years, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Springfield. He pleaded guilty in September to attempting to a federal charge of using fire to damage a building a building used in interstate commerce.

Last May, officers responding to an alarm found Buyno "stuck inside a maroon Volkswagen Passat" that he had backed into the entrance of a building in Danville, a city about 120 miles east of Springfield, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

FBI agents searched the car and discovered gasoline, a hatchet, road flares, a pack of matches and that Buyno fortified the trunk of his car with wooden beams.

Investigators soon determined Buyno crashed into the building "for the purpose of burning it down before it could be used as a reproductive health clinic."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/02/06/illinois-abortion-clinic-philip-buyno-sentenced/72489841007/

[ProfessorGAC]

1. Danville

If Champaign/Urbana wasn't in the way, Danville would be where Illitucky starts.

[Emile]

8. So right.

Remember I live just east of the airport. LOL

There are really stupid hicks living in this area.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Yeah, I Remember

You & i reminisced about the balloon races.

[Emile]

10. I guess the clinic this happened at was the old

Dillman eye clinic on Logan Street. Logan Street runs along side of the lake.

[LiberalFighter]

2. I know it doesn't matter at his age. He needs to be neutered.

[rurallib]

3. 5 years seems pretty light for what he was trying to do

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

6. indeed. Picture a younger man doing this to a government building.. he'd get 20 years

[Blue Idaho]

7. Good chance

He’ll be dead in five years. Convicts age much faster than the general population and they get far worse healthcare.

[MagickMuffin]

4. Buyno, bye bye now

What a way to spend your golden years behind bars. Ah, actions have consequences!

[Midnight Writer]

5. There are a bunch of Women's Health Clinics newly opening in Illinois.

Not to be confused with phony Crisis Pregnancy Centers.

I think healthcare organizations expect to see a lot of women patients from outside Illinois coming here for healthcare. Danville, the city in this story, sits right on the border with Indiana, which has draconian laws against women's healthcare. Indiana is currently trying to prosecute a doctor who performed an abortion on a ten-year-old. It is no wonder women in Indiana want to get healthcare from out-of-state.

Illinois is a Blue Oasis in a Red Desert of States with laws discriminating against women needing healthcare.