
Defence suggests some of the guns seized from Coutts border blockade used for hunting
LETHBRIDGE, AB – A defence lawyer for one of two men accused of conspiracy to commit murder at the border blockade at Coutts, Alta., has suggested some of the guns seized by police were rifles used for hunting small game.
Katherin Beyak made the comment Wednesday during cross-examination of an RCMP firearms expert.
Her client, Chris Carbert, and his co-accused, Anthony Olienick, were arrested in 2022, after police seized a cache of weapons, ammunition and body armour from trailers near the blockade.
Beyak said some of the weapons were small calibre rifles that fire the same ammunition. She produced a chart listing bullets and said the rifles would normally be used for hunting small game.