LOS ANGELES – (INT) – An Ontario man was sentenced Monday May 15th to 30 months in federal prison for firing BB guns at a Planned Parenthood facility in Pasadena.

Richard Royden Chamberlin, 53, was also ordered by a federal judge in Los Angeles to pay more than 42-thousand dollars in restitution. The judge said Chamberlin’s year-long string of BB gun attacks was a “reign of terror” and that Chamberlin had acted “in a calculated and cruel way” against Planned Parenthood, its staff, and patients.


Chamberlin admitted in his plea agreement to driving past the Planned Parenthood facility and firing his BB gun at the clinic on at least 11 occasions between June 2020 and May 2021. His motivation was to intimidate and interfere with the clinic, its doctors, staff, and patients specifically because the clinic was providing reproductive health services, including services related to abortions.

Story Date: May 18, 2023