Activist who mailed fake anthrax to abortion clinics sentenced

CINCINNATI, OHIO - A man who admitted mailing fake anthrax letters to abortion clinics was sentenced Thursday to 19 years and seven months in prison on firearms and theft charges. <br> <br> U.S. District Judge Susan Dlott ordered Clayton Waagner to serve the term after completing a 30-year sentence in Illinois on escape and other charges. Waagner said he would appeal. <br> <br> ``I&#39;m not remorseful,&#39;&#39; he told the judge. ``I&#39;m not begging for forgiveness for what I did, because I thought it was right.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Waagner, 45, of Kennerdell, Pa., was arrested at a copy shop in suburban Springdale on Dec. 5, about 10 months after he escaped from a jail in Illinois. <br> <br> He was convicted of illegally possessing a handgun and a rifle; possessing a stolen handgun; and possessing a stolen car. Authorities said they arrested him in a stolen car with about $9,000 in his pocket, a loaded, .40-caliber handgun and several fake IDs. <br> <br> In November, while Waagner was on the run, anti-abortion activist Neal Horsley said Waagner visited him in Carrollton, Ga. <br> <br> Kelly Johnson, a public defender advising Waagner, argued for a lesser sentence, saying Waagner wasn&#39;t convicted of violent crimes. <br> <br> Federal authorities have said that Waagner claimed responsibility for sending more than 550 letters filled with powder to about 280 women&#39;s reproductive health clinics in October and November, at the height of the nation&#39;s anthrax scare. <br> <br> Waagner had faced from 15 years in prison to life without parole and a $250,000 fine on each count. <br> <br> He also faces federal bank robbery charges in Pennsylvania and West Virginia and charges of car theft in Mississippi and possession of a pipe bomb in Tennessee.