Thread by @jonnywakefield

Breaking: the RCMP Integrated National Security Enforcement Team has charged an Alberta man who was posting extremist content online and had a cache of guns and explosives. They believe Kelvin Benjamin Maure was a a "threat to critical infrastructure, the police and the public."

Here's a full list of charges.

A few more shots of what police seized.

The RCMP don't go into what sort of extremist stream this person is allegedly part of but I'm hoping to speak with the head of INSET later this afternoon. If you have any info about this, my DMs are open.

He was arrested after a police operation in February the Heatherlea Estates area of Parkland County, near Township Road 540 East of RR 20. If you happened to see anything please reach out.

A quote I missed on first read through, from the head of the Alberta INSET unit. "As the investigation continues, we are attempting to determine whether the accused’s actions were motivated by a specific ideology or if there were broader intentions to his activities.”

Close up of the patches on some of the clothing police seized. I can't find any other examples of the "Doug's Darlings" patch online.

Also, anyone have any guesses what this thing is?

Correction from RCMP: the accused's middle name is Gregory, not Benjamin.

Just got off the phone with RCMP Insp. Scott Issac. He said police are still determining what circles this person ran in but he said there was an anti-government flavour to some of his posts. He said the explosives police seized were homemade, but he would not go into detail.

Just to confirm the weapons seized are
• An AK-47
• AK-74
• Cooey bolt action rifle
• SKS rifle
• A Viking brand pistol

NEWS: Court records show Maure was in possession of triacetone triperoxide, the same material used in the 7/7/05 bombings in London. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_20…

An odd, additional detail: the day before his arrest, Maure is accused of breaking into a shed owned by oil and gas company Obsidian Energy, and damaging a propane tank.