A southern Alberta man is facing a number of charges, including inciting hate in public, after police were called to a Medicine Hat business.
On July 31, the Priority Street Crimes Unit of the Medicine Hat Police Service responded after a local business reported a man passed money that had what police are calling “hate markings directed toward unnamed persons of the Jewish religious faith.”
Police said the bills were stamped with “Jews = ESAU, Jewish White Genocide” and a website promoting the Zionist Occupation Government conspiracy theory.
Officers searched the man and said he had a number of $5 and $20 bills that had the same markings in his backpack.
Police executed a search warrant at the man’s home and seized a number of computers, USB drives, white supremacy documents, four firearms, over 1,200 rounds of ammunition, high capacity magazines and stickers displaying the text “Immigration = White Genocide.”
Police said two of the guns seized were SKS high-powered rifles with the serial numbers removed. A search of the seized electronics is underway, police said.
Loki Hulgaard, 35, is facing 14 charges, including incite hatred in public, two counts of possess firearm with serial number removed and four counts of unauthorized possession of a firearm.
Police said he was released on cash bail on Aug. 2 with a number of conditions. He’s scheduled to be in court again on Thursday.