HARRISBURG, PA. — An anti-abortion extremist already serving a lengthy federal prison sentence for sending hundreds of letters with fake anthrax to abortion clinics was sentenced today to 33 years and four months for carjacking, robbery and weapons offenses in four states.
Clayton Lee Waagner, 50, pleaded guilty in April to a Mississippi carjacking, weapons charges in Mississippi and Tennessee and robbing banks in Harrisburg and Morgantown, W.Va. The sentence will run concurrently with his prior federal sentences.
The cases were consolidated in federal court in Pennsylvania. Waagner, who once said he was on a mission from God to kill abortion providers, is currently imprisoned at the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary.
Waagner’s attorney, federal Public Defender James V. Wade, did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment today.
The Mississippi case involved using a .40-caliber handgun to carjack a van in a Tunica casino parking lot on Sept. 7, 2001. In Tennessee the same day, Waagner, a convicted felon at the time, allegedly possessed a pipe bomb, a rifle and a shotgun. The other Tennessee firearms charge occurred in May 2001, prosecutors said.
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