Former Canadian Armed Forces reservist accused of plotting attack at pro-gun rally in Virginia with two alleged white supremacists ordered to remain in federal custody.
Patrik Mathews, 27, who authorities say entered the country illegally last year, was ordered to be detained on two federal gun charges pending a Jan. 30 preliminary hearing.
One of Mathews' co-defendants, 19-year-old William Garfield Bilbrough IV of Denton, Maryland, was also ordered to be detained until his preliminary hearing. The third defendant, Brian Mark Lemley Jr., 23, of Newark, Delaware, waived his right to a detention hearing.
All three men are alleged members of "The Base," which an FBI agent described in court documents as a white supremacist group founded in 2018 that espouses the creation of a white ethnostate committed to acts of violence against African Americans, Jewish Americans and other minority groups.
"This is a domestic terrorism investigation. This does involve firearms," U.S. Attorney Thomas Windom said in court on Wednesday.
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