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