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Oct 28, 2021 7:17 PM - The Canadian Press

Ex-reservist, neo-Nazi member sentenced to 9 years in prison

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This undated photo provided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police shows Patrik Mathews is seen in an undated RCMP handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-RCMP

A neo-Nazi group member has been sentenced to nine years in prison in a case that highlighted a broader federal crackdown on far-right extremists.

FBI agents arrested former Canadian Armed Forces reservist Patrik Jordan Mathews and two other members of a group called The Base four days before a pro-gun rally in Virginia in January 2020.

Surveillance equipment installed in their Delaware apartment captured Mathews and fellow Base member Brian Mark Lemley Jr. discussing an attack at the rally at Virginia's Capitol in Richmond.

The judge who sentenced Mathews to prison concluded that he and Lemley intended to engage in terrorist activity.

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