Remaining Coutts protesters sentenced to over six years each
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Justice David Labrenz sentenced Anthony Olienick and Chris Carbert to prison on Monday for their roles in the Coutts border blockade in Feb. 2022.
The two remaining Coutts Four members spent over 900 days in remand awaiting trial.
Two of the four initial members, Chris Lysak and Jerry Morin, accepted a plea deal on lesser charges in Feb. The conspiracy to commit murder charges were dropped, and the two men were released.
Lysak was sentenced to three years for possession of a restricted firearm in an unauthorized place, and Morin was sentenced to three and a half years for conspiracy to traffic firearms. Both sentences amounted to time served awaiting trial for the two men.
Olienick and Carbert both had the conspiracy to commit murder charges dropped about a week before this ruling, but Crown prosecutors are appealing.
Monday’s ruling resulted in Chris Carbert being sentenced to six and a half years in prison for mischief and obstruction and Anthony Olienick being sentenced to six years for the same charges and possessing an explosive weapon. However, after accounting for time served, the remaining sentences are brought down to approximately two years each. Continue…