Prosecutors recommended 25-year prison sentences for both men. “The court rejects the notion that this was merely talk among friends,” the judge said. Surveillance equipment installed in their Delaware apartment captured Mathews and Lemley discussing an attack at the rally at Virginia’s Capitol in Richmond. and a third member of a group called The Base four days before a pro-gun rally in Virginia in January 2020.
(AP) - Two neo-Nazi group members were sentenced on Thursday to nine years in prison each in a case that highlighted a broader federal crackdown on far-right extremists.įBI agents arrested former Canadian Armed Forces reservist Patrik Jordan Mathews, U.S. discussing an attack at the rally at Virginia’s Capitol in Richmond.(U.S.
Surveillance equipment installed in their Delaware apartment captured Mathews and fellow Base member Brian Mark Lemley Jr. FBI agents arrested Mathews and two other members of a group called The Base four days before a pro-gun rally in Virginia in January 2020. 28, 2021 to nine years in prison in a case that highlighted a broader federal crackdown on far-right extremists.
Attorney detention memorandum, shows Brian Mark Lemley Jr, driving, and Patrik Mathews, passenger seat, passing through a toll booth near Norfolk, Va., en route to Georgia. Facebook Twitter Email FILE - This image taken from a Sept.
