Irvine Man Gets 6 Years in Prison for Firebombing Clinic, Plotting Electrical Substation Attack

Prosecutors say Tibert Ergul and an accomplice made a Molotov cocktail and threw it at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Costa Mesa.

A Planned Parenthood clinic in Inglewood, Calif., on May 16, 2023. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

An Irvine, California, man was sentenced to six years in federal prison May 30 for firebombing a Planned Parenthood clinic and planning an attack on an electrical substation.

Tibet Ergul, 22, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney, who also ordered him to pay $1,000 in restitution, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles.