A former reservist with the Canadian Armed Forces convicted of gun charges linked to what the FBI called a neo-Nazi plot to attack a gun-rights rally in Virginia is facing up to 25 years behind bars, a judge decided Monday.
Patrik Mathews, 28, of Beausejour, Man., showed little emotion when U.S. District Court Judge Theodore Chuang agreed to the prosecution’s request for a “terrorism enhancement” at sentencing later this week.
Mathews, sporting long brown hair that reaches past his shoulders and a scruffy beard underneath his face mask, looked fully engaged throughout the daylong hearing but had no visible reaction to Chuang’s ruling.
Mathews’s co-defendant,
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