Two protesters are on trial in Lethbridge, Alta., charged with conspiring to kill Mounties at the Coutts border blockade in 2022.A truck convoy of anti-COVID-19 vaccine mandate demonstrators block the highway at the busy U.S. border crossing in Coutts, Alta., in February of 2022. A man accused of conspiring to kill Mounties at the border blockade at Coutts, Alta., had 40,000 rounds of ammunition on his property along with a shotgun, a rifle and two pipe bombs, court heard Friday.
Evans said that while looking through a shop on the property, officers found the rounds of ammunition in plastic bins. They were for shotguns, .308-calibre rifles and a Winchester rifle. In a vehicle on the property, they found a shotgun and a rifle. The defence is contesting the vehicle doesn't belong to Olienick.