A feminine undercover officer who infiltrated the 2022 border blockade at Coutts, Alta., instructed court docket the job is surveillance and interdiction, however seduction just isn’t a instrument of the commerce.
“You’re not allowed to use your sexuality or have anyone else use their sexuality at all during the course of the investigation. It’s a non-issue,” the officer testified Tuesday in response to questions from a Crown prosecutor.
“We shut them down right away.
“We’ll quite often use (stories that we have) boyfriends or will be same-sex oriented — something that will take that off the table, so that it never really enters into the equation.”
Anthony Olienick and Chris Carbert are on trial charged with conspiring to homicide cops at the blockade, a protest of COVID-19 guidelines that paralyzed visitors at the Canada-U.S. border in southern Alberta for 2 weeks.
The officer, who can’t be recognized, was known as HQ1298. Media had been moved to a separate room however allowed to pay attention in.
The officer instructed the trial she has been working undercover for 20 years in tasks throughout the nation however primarily in Saskatchewan and Alberta.
She stated she has been educated on home terrorism and crime methods, and how one can memorize quotes, faces and descriptions.
“You memorize it in your head. You play it over and over, so you don’t forget and you can repeat it. Lots of times I’ll play it over,” she stated.
Olienick and Carbert had been arrested after Mounties discovered a cache of weapons, physique armour and ammunition in trailers within the space.
They are additionally charged with mischief and possession of a weapon for a harmful objective. Olienick faces an extra cost of being in possession of a pipe bomb.
It was the second day the jury heard proof. After opening arguments on Thursday, the trial was slowed down in authorized arguments that may’t be instantly reported due to a publication ban.
“Don’t speculate about the reasons for the delay,” Justice David Labrenz instructed the jury. “There’s good reason for it.”
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