A judge has denied bail to a man accused of conspiracy to commit murder in a border blockade south of Alberta.
Chris Carbert, 45, appeared on video at Queen’s Bank Court in Lethbridge on Friday to hear the decision after a bail hearing last week.
The reasons for Judge Johnna Kubik’s ruling are protected by a publication ban.
Carbert and three other men are accused of conspiring to kill police officers in a blockade near Coutts, Alta, in protest of COVID-19 vaccine warrants and other pandemic restrictions.
One of the men, Christopher Lysak, was denied bail in March.
Anthony Olienick, whose bail hearing began this morning, and Jerry Morin also remain in custody.
The Crown has already indicated that it plans to try the four men together.
They will return to court on June 13.
The protest near Coutts began in late January and lasted nearly three weeks.
Fourteen people were charged in February after the RCMP found a stockpile of long weapons, pistols, body armor, large quantities of ammunition and high-capacity magazines in three trailers.
Police allege that a protest group was willing to use force if the blockade was disrupted. Officers called the threat “very serious.”