Anti-mandate demonstrators gather as a truck convoy blocks the highway the busy U.S. border crossing in Coutts, Alta., Monday, Jan. 31, 2022. The jury at the murder-conspiracy trial for two men charged after the 2022 blockade in Coutts, Alta. will begin deliberations for a third day. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. – A jury has found two men not guilty of conspiring to kill police at the border blockade at Coutts, Alta.
But Anthony Olienick and Chris Carbert have been convicted of mischief and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.
Olienick has also been convicted of possessing a pipe bomb.
The two were arrested after police found a cache of weapons, ammunition and body armour near the blockade at the Canada-U.S. border crossing in 2022.
The blockade was one of several held across the country to protest COVID-19 rules and vaccine mandates.
The trial heard statements and text messages from the accused warning that the blockade was a last stand against a tyrannical federal government.
More coming.
