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Lawyer Chad Williamson discusses updates to the Coutts blockade legal defence
When demonstrators found out there were potentially violent individuals within the region of Coutts, Alberta, they called an end to the blockade and advocated for peaceful resolution.
On February 14, a warrant was acted on in the town of Coutts, Alberta. Guns and other materials were seized and 13 people were arrested around the same time by the RCMP, who claimed the group to be a criminal organization.
This occurred during the timeframe of the Coutts blockade, a peaceful demonstration that had the border crossing between Canada and the U.S. closed on and off through the days of January 29 to February 15, 2022.
Once the blockade demonstrators found out there were potentially
violent individuals within the region of Coutts, they called an end to
the blockade, and expressly advocated that violence was not on the
docket for blockade demonstrators, and that peaceful resolution was
paramount to their successes.
On Tuesday, March 15, the Lethbridge courthouse saw an appearance of those arrested in the Coutts area who face conspiracy charges. This court appearance brought a crowd of supporters, who stood in solidarity with accused individuals. Some protesters mention Joanne, the Coutts resident who hosted other accused individuals on her property.
Prior to her arrest, we spoke with Joanne while attending Coutts blockade demonstrations, at which time she attests that she played a supportive role in hosting people within her property, and provided laundry and meals to those she saw as being in need of support.
After the arrest, we spoke with two residents of Coutts who said Joanne was likely not aware of the situation, but rather, was trying to support individuals she saw as being in need of help.
Many individuals facing charges, other than conspiracy to murder, have sought the legal representation of Williamson Law, who in partnership with the Canadian civil liberties charity The Democracy Fund, have crowdfunded legal defence for individuals through TruckerLawyer.ca.
We reached out to Lawyer Chad Williamson for further comment, as Chad mentions, there may be more tickets and charges that lay ahead in relation to the Coutts blockade, and TruckerLawyer.ca continues accept donations for the legal defence of peaceful blockade supporters targeted by authorities over these matters.
Chad expresses that though the last few years have been demoralizing for Canadians across the country, “The wheels of justice grind, but they grind slowly.”
UPDATE: Rebel News is crowdfunding the legal defence for Alex Van Herk and George Janzen.
Coutts protest leaders to go on trial in 2024
Fort Macleod town councillor Marco Van Huigenbos and 2 others accused of mischief
A three-week trial has been set for the three Alberta men accused of organizing the border blockade and protests last year at Coutts, Alta.
Marco Van Huigenbos, 32, a Fort Macleod town councillor, faces a charge of mischief over $5,000, as do Alex Van Herk, 53, and George Janzen, 43.
Lawyers for the men appeared in Lethbridge court on Monday and booked a jury trial for April 2, 2024.
In March, Van Huigenbos was reprimanded for what Fort Macleod Mayor Brent Feyter described as "unacceptable behaviour."
In a letter posted to the town's website, Feyter expressed "grave concerns" about Van Huigenbos's role as a blockade organizer.
The on-again, off-again blockade at the busy Coutts crossing started on Jan. 29 and ended Feb. 15 after police raids resulted in more than a dozen arrests and the seizure of a cache of weapons, ammunition and body armour.
When interviewed the day after the raids, Van Huigenbos told CBC News the protest was "infiltrated by an extreme element" and said the remaining protesters had decided to "peacefully leave Coutts and return to [their] families."
In his testimony at the Emergencies Act inquiry in November, Van Huigenbos told the commission he felt the discovery of weapons tainted the movement.
"For me, it became very clear that every objective we were looking to achieve was no longer possible and our message had been lost," he said.
Charges dropped against 3 men
Initially, RCMP laid charges against 14 people. Four men — Chris Carbert, Chris Lysak, Anthony Olienick and Jerry Morin — are facing the most serious offences, conspiracy to murder RCMP officers.
Since then, prosecutors have dropped the charges against Luke Berk, 63, Johnson Law, 40, and Janx Zaremba, 19, who were facing mischief and weapons offences.
The four men accused of plotting to murder police officers will go on trial in June.
Unsealed court documents show RCMP ran an undercover operation and used an "imminent harm" wiretap to justify the execution of search warrants and the laying of charges.
RCMP believed the men accused of conspiring to murder police officers were stockpiling weapons to arm themselves and others in preparation for a standoff with police.
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Alberta men accused in plot to murder Mounties saw undercover cops as 'girls' who could help: court records
Female undercover officers befriended protesters acting as ‘security’ for Coutts border blockade
Newly released records show police believed the Alberta men now accused of plotting to murder RCMP officers debated having two women smuggle a hockey bag filled with guns into a protest against pandemic-related restrictions, suggesting they would go unnoticed by police because they were "girls."
However, those two women were actually undercover police officers.
The next day, RCMP launched a rare "imminent harm" wiretap, which is permitted to be executed without a judge's sign-off when there is an immediate threat to safety.
The blockades and protests at the Coutts border crossing in southern Alberta began on Jan. 29 and ended following the Feb. 14 pre-dawn execution of warrants on trailers and property, which resulted in RCMP seizing more than a dozen firearms, as well as ammunition and body armour.
In the aftermath of the searches, 14 people were charged criminally, with four men — Jerry Morin, 41; Chris Lysak, 48; Chris Carbert, 45; and Anthony Olienick, 40 — facing the most serious offence: conspiracy to murder RCMP officers.
The four men also face a weapons and mischief charge.
Additionally, Olienick faces a charge related to an allegation he had a pipe bomb that police say they seized from his rural property in the Municipality of Willow Creek outside Claresholm, south of Calgary.
These new details are revealed in search warrant applications, also known as ITOs, which describe the two key investigative tactics — the undercover operation and the wiretaps — used to justify charges, raids and further searches.
Four ITOs were unsealed and filed with Lethbridge Provincial Court on Wednesday after a legal challenge from a group of news organizations, including CBC, Global, CTV, the Globe and Mail, Postmedia and the New York Times.
Although the documents were unsealed, redactions and an interim publication ban prevented many of the details from being reported — most notably, information gleaned from wiretaps, statements made by the four accused to police and inflammatory statements made to undercover officers.
The media consortium will have a full hearing on Sept. 29 to determine if the publication ban will be lifted for remaining redactions.
Police allege guns to be shipped in hockey bag
The unsealed documents show that when they were filed, RCMP believed Olienick, Carbert and Morin were part of a sub-group of protesters who "were arming themselves for a standoff against police."
Police believed three of the four men facing conspiracy to murder charges knew each other and made plans prior to the Coutts border blockade, according to the documents.
On Feb. 10, two female undercover officers — referred to in the document by pseudonyms — posed as protesters and befriended Olienick and Carbert at a Coutts bar called Smuggler's Saloon. The two officers reported that they had witnessed the planning of a suspected shipment of guns in a hockey bag that night, according to the undercover officers' notes.
The documents say Carbert then asked Olienick if he "preferred to use guitar cases like they usually did," but "Olienick said the package was too big and they needed a hockey bag."
The plan was to meet Morin at a check stop along the train tracks near the protest site, where he would hand over a "heavy" delivery.
The documents detail a conflict over whether the undercover officers would help. Carbert felt the hockey bag would be too heavy for the women to lift, but Olienick believed it was a perfect cover.
"Olienick believed that the police would not think much of it if [the two women] carried the bag because they were 'girls,'" reads one of the ITOs.
Officers ordered to leave suspected 'gun exchange'
When the undercover officers told the men they were "fine with guns," the document states that neither Carbert nor Olienick denied the bag contained firearms.
Although the undercover officers did arrive at the checkpoint with Olienick, Carbert and Morin, their supervisor told them to leave and not be involved in what they believed was going to be a "gun exchange," the records say, so they did not see the hockey bag.
Based on the undercover officers' observations, RCMP "[believed] Morin provided firearms to Olienick and Carbert for the purpose of using those firearms to shoot at and kill police officers."
From
left to right: Chris Carbert, 44; Anthony Olienick, 39; Jerry Morin,
40; and Christopher Lysak, 48. They are each accused of conspiring to
murder RCMP officers near Coutts, Alta., during the border blockade and
protests earlier this year. (Carbert/Facebook, Coutts Convoy Restart/Facebook, Morin/Facebook, Instagram)
The situation at Coutts was intensifying leading up to the Valentine's Day police raids.
The day after the hockey bag handover, RCMP launched an imminent harm intercept, meaning they could set up wiretaps of the suspects without the typically required court authorization, because they believed their officers were in danger.
But under the heading "Imminent Harm Interception of Private Communication" in one of the ITOs, 54 paragraphs and subparagraphs are blacked out with redactions.
'Arming themselves for a standoff'
The four released ITOs contain very little information about the fourth man, Lysak. There is a fifth ITO, which prosecutors successfully argued should remain sealed because it relates to an ongoing investigation.
Social media posts have connected two of the men to a network called Diagolon, an American-style militia movement birthed in Nova Scotia with white supremacist beliefs.
Members of the network want to establish a white nationalist state through violence, according to experts in extremism.
The social media accounts belonging to Carbert and Lysak connect the pair to Diagolon, including a photo of Lysak posing with the group's founder, Jeremy MacKenzie.
Two Diagolon patches were found on body armour seized during the execution of RCMP search warrants at Coutts on Feb. 14.
This
cache of firearms, body armour and ammunition was found in three
trailers near the blockade of the Canada-U.S. border, police say. (Submitted by Alberta RCMP)
The main searches were conducted on trailers on the property of Joanne Person, halfway between Smuggler's Saloon in Coutts and the protest site.
Person, who faces less serious charges connected to the blockade, had been hosting several of the protesters, including Olienick, Carbert and two other men who were not identified in the documents. A gun registered to Lysak was seized from Person's property during the search.
Men involved in sophisticated security team
By the second week in February, RCMP had identified a sophisticated security team that allegedly included Olienick, Morin and Carbert.
Olienick kept watch over several live surveillance feeds that showed RCMP officers' movements within the protest area and at various checkpoints, undercover officers noted.
Those officers spotted body armour, a laminated map and the live video feed in Olienick's truck, which led to police commenting on "the sophistication of the security role," according to the ITOs.
RCMP are seen policing the Coutts, Alta., border protests on Feb. 9. (Nassima Way/CBC)
Olienick, who communicated with protest leadership through an intermediary, told undercover officers that protesters had "access to hundreds of firearms and ammunition within Coutts," the court records allege.
"I believe that Olienick's involvement as security within the Coutts blockade involves structure, hierarchy and organization," the document says.
Police also believed they would find "documents and data related to planning, organization and operations of the protest group's security for the Coutts blockade" at one of Olienick's properties.
The search warrant application also alleges Olienick disclosed that protesters had brought in more semi tractors and farm equipment to "barricade themselves from the RCMP because they were breaching the borders of the town."
'Search by night' raids
Late on Feb. 13, police arrested Lysak outside Smuggler's Saloon and charged him with uttering threats toward a police officer.
By this time, police had applied to search Person's property and stated in their application they wished to do so at night, when fewer protesters would be present.
"I believe there will be a significant risk to police, public and protestor safety when executing this search warrant, including protestors attempting to swarm, obstruct and attack police," the document said.
Protesters
from the blockade at the border crossing near Coutts, Alta., pass
through the Milk River blockade site on Highway 4 on Feb. 15, as police
officers look on. (CBC)
In the early hours of Feb. 14, officers raided trailers on Person's property and seized a weapons cache, including a handgun registered to Lysak. Olienick and Carbert were arrested in the course of the raids on the property.
'This is war'
The morning after the raids, police surveilled Morin's home and followed him discreetly for nearly an hour and a half before pulling his truck over in Calgary at 12:23 p.m.
Police found two weapons in his truck, but also applied for a search warrant for Morin's home because, the documents allege, he had disclosed in previous days that he had more firearms than what police recovered during his arrest. Another gun was seized at Morin's house, according to the ITOs.
The ITOs also referenced social media posts made by some of the accused, including Morin, who posted a video to Facebook during the protests.
In a video titled "Call to Action" posted the day before his arrest, Morin encouraged others to join the protest.
"This is war," Morin said.
Investigators believed group had more members, weapons
The RCMP's investigation into the alleged planned attack continued after they arrested the four men. Police also applied to search a rural property belonging to Olienick near Claresholm. Officers said they believed he had guns there and "was part of a group that spoke about using firearms against police."
"Police have not yet identified all members of the group and I believe there were members of the group that were not present in Coutts," police said.
Police also learned that in the months leading up to the protests, Olienick had ordered different accessories for a handgun, despite not having one registered in his name, according to the documents.
According to the records, this included magazine holders, a holster that could accommodate a handgun with an attached light, and a shot timer, which police noted are typically used for exercises "intended to improve shooting speed and accuracy while shooting quickly."
Police believed Olienick had equipment stored outside of Coutts, which members of his "group" were planning to transport into the protest area.
"I believe equipment intended for Coutts did not arrive," wrote one investigating officer.
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Clarifications
- After publication, the court issued additional redactions. This article has been updated.Oct 05, 2022 5:07 PM MT
Corrections
- Undercover officers allege they met Chris Carbert and Anthony Olienick on Feb. 10. A previous version of this article incorrectly said Feb. 11.Mar 08, 2023 2:38 PM MT
Bail hearings held for 13 charged in Coutts convoy
LETHBRIDGE, AB – ***Update – Additional individuals charged.
A bail hearing marathon was held in Lethbridge Provincial Court on Tuesday for a group of protesters who were arrested after weapons and ammunition were seized at the protest location.
The 13 accused were apprehended early Monday morning on weapons-related charges.
RCMP claim the individuals had formed a small organized group within the larger convoy, had a “militant mindset” and were willing to use force against police if attempts were made to break up the blockade on Highway 4.
READ MORE: RCMP arrest 11 Coutts protesters on weapons-related charges
As the entire group was in COVID-19 isolation in custody at the time of their court appearances, lawyers spoke on their behalf.
Nine of the 11 suspects were released on conditions that include having no contact with the other accused, not attending the area south of Milk River where the convoy protest took part, not being within 200 metres of other public protests, being prohibited from possessing weapons, reporting to their probation officers, and residing at their specific addresses.
The other four, who each face one count of conspiracy to commit murder in addition to other charges, are being kept in custody for the time being.
The accused are:
- Chris Carbert, 45, Lethbridge
- Conspiracy to commit murder
- Possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose
- Mischief over $5,000
- Christopher Lysak, 48, Lethbridge
- Conspiracy to commit murder
- Possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose
- Mischief over $5,000
- Uttering threats
- Anthony Olienick, 40, Claresholm
- Conspiracy to commit murder
- Possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose
- Mischief over $5,000
- Jerry Morin, 40
- Conspiracy to commit murder
- Possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose
- Mischief over $5,000
The accused who have been released on conditions are:
- Ursula Allred, 22, Magrath
- Possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose
- Mischief over $5,000
- Luke Berk, 63, Red Deer
- Mischief over $5,000
- Evan Colenutt, 23, Raymond
- Possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose
- Mischief over $5,000
- Johnson Chichow Law, 40, Calgary
- Possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose
- Mischief over $5,000
- Justin Martin, 23, Raymond
- Possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose
- Eastin Stewart Oler, 23, Raymond
- Possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose
- Mischief over $5,000
- Joanne Person, 64, Coutts
- Mischief over $5,000
- Janx Zaremba, 19, Raymond
- Possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose
- Mischief over $5,000
- Jaclyne Martin, 39
- Possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose
- Mischief over $5,000
Four facing conspiracy to commit murder charges, as Coutts, Alta. border blockade ends
COUTTS, Alta.—Charges against four people of conspiracy to commit murder are among those laid in connection with the Coutts border blockade, after RCMP officers swept through and seized a large assortment of guns and ammunition.
Court records obtained by the Star detail the names, charges and hometowns of the first 11 people arrested Monday — and show that three of those facing the conspiracy charge are Alberta men. The RCMP updated media late Tuesday and indicated that a fourth person is facing that same charge.
RCMP Chief Supt. Trevor Daroux said that the conspiracy to commit murder was directed at police.
HO - The Canadian Press
Weapons and ammunition seized by the RCMP are shown in this recent
handout photo. RCMP say they have arrested 11 people at the main United
States border crossing in southern Alberta after becoming aware of a
cache of firearms and ammunition. Demonstrators have been protesting
against COVID-19 vaccine mandates for cross-border truck drivers and
broader health restrictions near Coutts, Alta. A blockade of trucks and
vehicles has been at the crossing since Jan. 29. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO -
RCMP
Police have said that people involved were willing “to use force against the police if any attempts were made to disrupt the blockade.”
The arrests took place at various locations around Coutts, where an anti-vaccine-mandate blockade had snarled cross-border traffic for more than two weeks.
On Tuesday, heavy farm equipment and trucks moved off the location of the blockade and the Canada Border Services Agency said the Coutts crossing was operational again.
One blockade organizer, Marco Van Huigenbos, said the decision to leave had been made after “the infiltration of extreme elements” was made evident by the arrests and that they wanted to “leave peacefully” in what he said was the original spirit of the protest.
Police said they seized 13 long guns, handguns, multiple sets of body armour, a machete, a large quantity of ammunition as well as high-capacity magazines, all of which werephotographed by the RCMP and distributed to media. It is not clear who owns the items, nor whether they belong to any of the named accused.
There’s been no link drawn by police between those arrested and a specific extremist group. Further, none of the allegations against them have been proven in court.
Extremism experts, however, have begun raising concerns about some of the patches visible on the sets of body armour.
Kurt Phillips with the Canadian Anti-Hate Network said the patches on one vest matched the symbol for the Diagolon movement, which the network says is “an accelerationist movement with members and chapters across Canada.”
The patches are black with a white diagonal line through them.
National security expert Stephanie Carvin summarized accelerationism as a belief that society is ultimately corrupt, on its way to collapse and that violent revolution is the way to achieve that goal faster.
She said she’s wary of the narrative that the blockade was subverted by extremists.
Carvin added that while the broader “Freedom Convoy” movement has successfully framed itself around a populist message in relation to government overreach and mandates, several of the leaders have expressed extremist views.
“This is a movement that is effectively led by anti-government extremists with conspiratorial world views, who have unsurprisingly engaged in extremist tactics … ones that are not necessarily about mandates, but are about mayhem,” Carvin said.
Those charged with conspiracy to commit murder include Jerry Morin, 40, who is also charged with posession of a weapon and mischief, as well as Chris Carbert, 44, of Lethbridge, who is charged with possession of a weapon and mischief.
Anthony Olienick, 39, of Claresholm, Alta., is another facing the conspiracy charge, as well as a charge of possession of a weapon and mischief. Christopher Lysak, 48, of Lethbridge, Alta., is also charged with conspiracy to commit murder, as well as with uttering threats, a possession of a weapon charge and a mischief charge.
Nine others have been charged with possession of a weapon and mischief. They include: Ursula Allred, 22, of Magrath, Alta.; Johnson Chichow Law, 39, of Calgary; Alta., Evan Colenutt, 23, of Raymond, Alta.; Luke Berk, 62, of Red Deer, Alta.; Janx Zaremba, 18, of Raymond, Alta.; Joanne Person, 62, of Coutts, Alta.; Stewart Eastin Oler, 22, of Raymond, Alta.; and Justin Martin, 22, of Raymond, Alta.
And finally, Jaclyne Martin, 39, has been charged with mischief over $5,000.
Yoav Niv, a lawyer who is representing 11 of the accused, said seven have been released on bail and four are still in custody.
Niv said he’s working to secure a bail hearing either this week or next for three named accused charged with conspiracy to commit murder. One other accused did not receive consent from the Crown to be released Tuesday.
Correction — Feb. 25, 2022: This file has been updated to correct charges of one of the accused after clarification from Alberta RCMP.
Kieran Leavitt is an Edmonton-based political reporter for the Toronto Star. Follow him on Twitter: @kieranleavitt
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Tears from man accused of conspiring to murder RCMP officers as bail denied
Jerry Morin, 40, goes to trial with 3 other men next June
An Alberta man accused of conspiring with three others to murder RCMP officers during blockades and protests at the Coutts border has been denied bail.
The other three were denied bail earlier this year.
Jerry Morin appeared over closed-circuit television, apologizing for his unshaven appearance, explaining he'd been "in the hole the last week."
Morin cried several times throughout his court appearance Monday, including when lawyers discussed a potential no-contact order with his girlfriend after the judge refused to release him.
In the end, prosecutor Matt Dalidowicz agreed to leave Jacqueline Martin's name off the no-contact list, which includes the other 12 people charged in connection with the protests at the Coutts crossing in January and February of this year.
Court of Queen's Bench Justice Johnna Kubik denied Morin's release after hearing submissions from Dalidowicz and defence lawyer Greg Dunn on June 30.
All of the arguments, evidence and judge's reasons for detention are protected by a publication ban.
Connection to far-right militia group
Morin, Chris Lysak, Chris Carbert and Anthony Olienick each face charges of conspiracy to murder, possession of a weapon and mischief.
They were charged in February after raids on trailers parked near the protest area resulted in RCMP seizing a cache of guns, body armour and ammunition.
On some of the seized body armour were patches belonging to a far-right militia called Diagolon.
A trial for the four men has been scheduled for June 2023. All four have now been denied bail pending trial.
Ten others, including Martin, face less serious charges connected to the protests.
'This is war'
In a video titled "Call to Action" and posted to Morin's Facebook page the day before his arrest, he called the Coutts situation "war" and encouraged others to join the fight.
In the video, Morin and Martin — who faces a charge of mischief over $5,000 — call on people to come to Coutts to participate in the blockade.
"Come on down tonight, there's no excuses, this is war," he says. "Your country needs you more than ever now."
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Man accused of plot to murder Mounties sold his home 'to be part of the revolution,' documents allege
Four men set to go on trial in 2023
One of the men accused of plotting to murder RCMP officers during the border blockade at Coutts, Alta., earlier this year told an undercover officer he had sold his home so he "could afford to be part of the revolution," according to newly unredacted documents.
Anthony Olienick, 40, is charged with conspiracy to murder RCMP officers, alongside Jerry Morin, 41, Chris Lysak, 48, and Chris Carbert, 45. The four men also face weapons and mischief charges.
Additionally, Olienick has been charged with making or possessing an explosive device in relation to an allegation he had a pipe bomb that police say they seized from his rural property in the Municipality of Willow Creek, outside Claresholm, south of Calgary. He is next set to appear in Lethbridge Court of King's Bench on Nov. 14.
On Thursday, a Lethbridge Court of King's Bench justice lifted a publication ban on parts of four search warrant applications after a legal challenge from a group of news organizations, including CBC, Global, CTV, the Globe and Mail, Postmedia and the New York Times.
These new details are revealed in the applications, known as ITOs, that describe two key investigative tactics — the undercover operation and the wiretaps — used to justify charges, raids and further searches.
Information gathered during the undercover operation helped police justify an "imminent harm" wiretap, which is permitted to be executed without a judge's sign-off when there is an immediate threat to safety.
From
left to right: Chris Carbert, 45, Anthony Olienick, 40, Jerry Morin,
41, and Christopher Lysak, 48, are each accused of conspiring to murder
RCMP officers near Coutts, Alta., during the border blockade and
protests. (Carbert/Facebook, Coutts Convoy Restart/Facebook, Morin/Facebook, Instagram)
Police began listening to Olienick and Carbert's conversations on Feb. 11, 2022, with Morin's phone being wiretapped the next day.
"This shows they were communicating regularly while at the Coutts blockade," reads an investigator's notes in one of the ITOs.
As CBC News and The Fifth Estate previously reported, the documents alleged female undercover officers befriended Olienick and Carbert and gathered cellphone numbers from that meeting to wiretap. The officers also came to believe the men were co-ordinating a delivery of firearms to the protest site with Morin, despite not seeing the alleged shipment arrive.
To one of the women, Olienick "expressed a willingness to use force against police as well as die for the protest cause," according to the court documents.
The records also noted that the officer said, "Olienick was identified as having access to firearms and ammunition."
Undercover officers reported that Olienick had also sold his semi trucks, and that he said "he was security and had been there from Day 1."
Books on combat, covert communication found: docs
Following two weeks of protests and border blockades, police executed a "search by night" raid, searching several trailers where the men had been staying.
In total, 14 people were charged criminally.
After Olienick's arrest, police executed a search warrant on his Dodge Ram, where they say they seized three books: On Killing, All-In Fighting and The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception.
The books detail tactics in unarmed combat, self-defence, covert communication and how militaries overcome the reluctance to kill.
Police also reported seizing three boxes of .22-calibre ammunition from the truck.
A collection of weapons that RCMP said they seized during the investigation. (RCMP)
The justice also lifted a ban on investigators' references in the ITOs to parts of a widely circulated public Facebook video that had already been published in the media, including in a Fifth Estate documentary, The Convoy and The Questions.
The investigators referred to some specific statements Morin and his partner, Jaclyn Martin, made in the live-streamed video during the blockade, which were widely reported in the media at that time.
In the video dated Feb. 13, Morin and Martin said they were returning from the Coutts protest to their home near Olds, north of Calgary.
In the video, Morin said there were no excuses, the investigator wrote, before adding, "this is war."
Then, the investigator noted, "Martin said it was no longer a keyboard war, that they needed to mobilize people.
A
truck convoy of anti-COVID-19 vaccine mandate demonstrators blocked the
highway at the busy U.S. border crossing in Coutts, Alta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press)
"Morin said he was going home now but knew he needed to be there for the fight."
Martin also said, "this was a citizen army and asked people to come stand and hold the line, that they were not asking people to storm the beaches of Normandy," according to the investigator's summary.
Martin faces a mischief charge for allegedly obstructing Highway 4 near Coutts and a weapons charge for alleged possession of a firearm. She has been released on bail.
The four men are in custody, having been denied release on bail.
Their trials are scheduled to take place in 2023.
If you have tips on this story, please contact rachel.ward@cbc.ca.
Five Coutts protesters to stand trial in July
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on November 11, 2022.
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com
Five people charged in relation to a protest at the Coutts border earlier this year are set to stand trial next year.
Ursulla Allred, Evan Colenut, Jaclyne Martin, Justin Martin and Easton Oler, are scheduled to stand trial for one week beginning July 24, 2023. The accused are charged with mischief to property and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.
RCMP arrested the accused, as well as several other individuals, on Feb. 14 during the blockade of trucks and vehicles at the Coutts border, after becoming aware of a cache of firearms and ammunition. The protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other pandemic restrictions began in late January and lasted until Feb. 15 when protestors began dispersing in response to the discovery of weapons.
The five accused appeared in Lethbridge provincial court Thursday where their lawyers confirmed their not guilty pleas and election for trial by a provincial court judge.
Crown Prosecutor Steven Johnston pointed out that even though the trial is set for five days, more trial time may be required and additional days subsequently scheduled.
Identical charges against two other men, Johnson Law and Luke Berk, were stayed in July, while a Coutts woman, Joanne Person, pleaded not guilty in August to her charges, and elected to be tried by a Court of King’s Bench judge and a jury, with a preliminary hearing. The one-day hearing is set for January of next year.
Person is also scheduled for trial Feb. 16-17, 2023 on one charge of dangerous driving. The charge stems from an incident Feb. 1 when a pickup truck drove through the blockade and headed toward oncoming traffic before becoming involved in a head-on collision.
Another accused, Janx Zaremba, who is also charged with mischief to property and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, is scheduled to stand trial Dec. 6.
Four more accused, Christopher Lysak, Anthony Olienick, Jerry Morin and Chris Carbert, face a charge of conspiracy to commit murder and will stand trial on June 12-30, 2023. The Crown has elected to proceed by direct indictment, which bypasses a preliminary hearing, and all four men have been denied bail in Court of King’s Bench and remain in custody.
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