2022 Coutts border blockade participant Chris Carbert testified that he unknowingly bought a prohibited rifle during his trial with Anthony Olienick for conspiring to murder RCMP officers.
Chris Carbert, one of two men charged with conspiring to murder RCMP officers during the Coutts, Alta., border blockade in 2022, testified that he was unaware the custom-made rifle he had purchased, a DPS Panther A15, was a prohibited weapon. Carbert claimed he paid $5,000 for the rifle found under his mattress during an early morning police raid of a trailer in the village the night he was arrested. Carbert and Anthony Olienick are being tried together before a jury in Court of King's Bench in Lethbridge.
July 23, 2024
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