An ex-reservist, neo-Nazi member gets nine years in U.S. prison. The Manitoba man had already pleaded guilty to weapons charges related to his role in a white supremacist plan to disrupt a gun-rights rally
Patrik Mathews, the former Canadian Armed Forces reservist at the centre of a violent plot to trigger a race war in Virginia, has been sentenced to nine years in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
The judge said the U.S. is full of patriotic, law-abiding people and is not on the verge of collapse, contrary to what some might think. Both men pleaded guilty in June to charges that included illegally transporting a firearm and obstruction of justice. A third co-defendant, William Garfield Bilbrough IV, pleaded guilty in December to helping Mathews enter the U.S. illegally. He was sentenced to five years in prison.
Rather, they were “specific, serious and calculating in the actions they intended to perpetuate,” the judge said.
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