Alberta far-right extremist who stockpiled weapons given another year in jail for possessing child pornography
An Alberta man serving a six-year sentence for stockpiling weapons and explosives as part of what police believe was a far-right extremist plot has been sentenced to additional time behind bars for possessing child pornography.
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Kelvin Maure, 30, was sentenced Monday to a year in jail, months after Court of King's Bench Justice Steven Mandziuk found him guilty of possessing hundreds of files containing child sex abuse material on his cellphones.
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The Crown had asked for two years in prison, while the defence sought a two-year conditional sentence order to be served in the community.
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During a sentencing hearing last year, prosecutor Craig Krieger said police came across Maure's collection of child sex abuse material after seizing his devices following a probe by the RCMP's Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET). At the time of his arrest, the agency said Maure 'presented a threat to critical infrastructure, police, and the public.'
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Investigators searched Maure's father's Parkland County property, where they found the younger Maure had stashed assault rifles and materials for homemade bombs. He also built a complex of tunnels on the property, which he often talked about on the message board site 4chan using the handle ' Moleman.'
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Police learned about Maure from his 4chan posts, which displayed what a judge later called a 'potential association or fascination with extreme right-wing groups' with 'fascistic or neo-Nazi predilections.' In early 2021, Maure posted about doing 'something to get more guns banned,' as well as infiltrating TransAlta's Keephills gas power plant outside Edmonton, where he fantasized about using explosives to topple transmission towers.
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'Moleman' also posted photos of himself wearing masks and posing with guns outside the Alberta legislature. Shortly before his arrest, police observed Maure driving around Parkland County shooting at road signs, trees and oil and gas facilities.
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Maure eventually pleaded guilty to eight of the 34 charges against him, including possessing a pistol, fully automatic AK-47 and AK-74 assault rifles, firearms suppressors and extended-capacity magazines.
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His weapons collection also included erythritol tetranitrate and triacetone triperoxide (TATP), used for making improvised explosives, as well as police arm patches.
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A police probe of Maure's cellphones turned up 1,200-plus files of child sex abuse material. The materials included images and videos of sexual violence against what the Crown described as 'very young girls.'
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At trial, defence lawyer Jordan Titosky argued the Crown had not proven Maure knew about the files, noting many had nondescript file names and were contained in larger caches of other material.
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