1/17/2024 0 Comments Undercover detective bomb planned![]() ![]() 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 allege guns to be shipped in hockey bag The media consortium will have a full hearing on Sept. 29 to determine if the publication ban will be lifted for remaining redactions. 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.įour 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.Īlthough 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 four men also face a weapons and mischief charge.Īdditionally, 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.Īt the border: The trucks and tractors have left the border town of Coutts, Alta. 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. 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.Ĭoutts arrests: new details on the men and women charged in border blockade The blockades and protests at the Coutts border crossing in southern Alberta began on Jan. 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. However, those two women were actually undercover police officers. 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." ![]()
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