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by KATHERINE RODRIGUEZ
\nBreitbart<\/p>\n
Three men who reportedly have ties to a neo-Nazi group and had allegedly discussed attacking a Virginia gun rally next week were arrested and charged with breaking federal gun and immigration laws on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Of those arrested, one of the detained was\u00a0Patrik Mathews, a former reservist in the Canadian Army who U.S. officials say entered the country illegally after Canada kicked him out of the service over his suspected ties to white supremacist groups, ABC News\u00a0reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n The CBC\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that while in the force, Mathews\u00a0worked as a combat engineer and had basic explosives training while serving with the Winnipeg-based 38 Canadian Brigade.<\/p>\n The other two arrested were American citizens \u2014 Brian Mark Lemley and William Garfield Bilbrough IV \u2014 but what the three of them had in common is that they all had suspected ties to the white supremacist group The Base, according to a federal criminal complaint filed in Maryland District Court.<\/p>\n Prosecutors say Mathews entered the U.S. illegally in August 2019 and was sheltered by Lemley and Bilbrough while they lived in Maryland until they moved to Delaware in November that same year.<\/p>\n \u201cWithin The Base\u2019s encrypted chat rooms, members have discussed, among other things, recruitment, creating a white ethno-state, committing acts of violence against minority communities, the organization\u2019s military-style training camps, and ways to make improvised explosive devices,\u201d the complaint\u00a0stated<\/a>.<\/p>\n