He entered the US illegally in November 2019...
CBC
Former Manitoba army reservist Patrik Mathews has been sentenced to nine years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for charges related to what the FBI has described as a neo-Nazi plot to instigate a race war in the United States.
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Mathews pleaded guilty in June to gun charges linked to what the FBI has described as a neo-Nazi plot to attack a gun-rights rally in Virginia last January, which he and Lemley were hoping would lead to clashes between police and tens of thousands of heavily armed protesters.
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American prosecutors had said the pair wanted to instigate a civil war that would "decimate racial and ethnic minorities and subjugate women," court documents say.
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Mathews crossed into the United States and was missing for several months until he was arrested in Maryland in January 2020.
Sentencing took into consideration a “terrorism enhancement”...
CBS Minnesota
The judge who sentenced Mathews to prison concluded that he and Lemley intended to engage in terrorist activity. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang’s decision to apply a “terrorism enhancement” to their sentences significantly increased their recommended prison terms under federal guidelines.
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The closed-circuit television camera and microphone in their apartment also captured Mathews and Lemley talk about breaking racist mass killer Dylann Roof out of prison where he is on death row, assassinating a Virginia lawmaker, destroying rail lines and power lines, derailing trains and poisoning water supplies, prosecutors said.
“We’ll give them bad guys. We will give them white supremacist terrorists, if that’s what they want,” Mathews said on a video that he recorded in November 2019.
Yes, these are bad guys...
Task & Purpose
U.S. Army veteran Brian Mark Lemley Jr., 35, and former Canadian Armed Forces reservist Patrik Jordan Mathews, 29, are due to face a sentencing hearing on Oct. 28, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland. A third co-defendant, William Garfield Bilbrough IV, 21, was sentenced to five years in prison in December after helping Mathews enter the United States illegally.
All three men are members of the violent white supremacist group “The Base,” which is attempting to recruit military veterans as foot soldiers for a planned race war that it hopes will result in the collapse of society, Task & Purpose reported in October 2020. The group looks for members with military experience so it will have an army of vigilante soldiers ready to seize power in the anticipated chaos, experts said.
The FBI said Lemley, Mathews and Bilbrough were working to set that chaos into motion, the Associated Press reported. The FBI planted a camera and microphone in Mathews and Lemley’s apartment in Delaware and heard them discuss plans to attack a gun rights rally in Richmond, Va., destroy rail and power lines and assassinate a Virginia lawmaker, according to the Associated Press.
It’s a good thing they’re stupid...