House arrest sentence for Chilliwack man caught with firearm arsenal in bedroom after posting militia-style videos online
Any connection Landon Preik has to far-right extremist group Diagolon appears tenuous at best
March 20, 2026
Landon Preik had a haphazard unsecured arsenal of firearms in his Chilliwack bedroom mid-pandemic in 2021, including semi-automatic handguns, rifles, over-capacity magazines.
In quasi-militia videos shared online, he showed off some of those weapons, which prompted the attention of Canada’s national security unit focused on terrorism.
At issue initially was whether Preik is a far-right extremist with an arsenal or just an angst-ridden man with a firearm fetish who made bad choices. Based on the tone from all involved in courtroom 204 on Friday morning (March 20, 2026), including Judge Peter Whyte, it seems like it’s a lot closer to the latter.
Preik was scheduled to go to trial facing 10 firearms charges in September 2025, but before the trial began, his lawyer David Ferguson said he would be calling no evidence and he "invited the court to convict.” Different than pleading guilty, an invitation to convict is not an admission of guilt and leaves the door open to appeal, sometimes on Charter challenges. However, this might not happen as Preik was in court on Friday for sentencing with no suggestion this was planned.
Judge Whyte had convicted Preik of two counts of possession of a firearm without licence and/or registration, three counts of possession of non-firearm unauthorized, and five counts of careless use or storage of a firearm.
Crown asked for two years less a day in jail, while Ferguson said his client deserved a conditional discharge. Judge Peter Whyte said a conditional discharge was not available, but for various reasons gave Preik a conditional sentence, which is a jail term served in the community, under house arrest. He will spend the first six months under full house arrest, the second six months under a curfew of 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. every day.
Tangential link to Diagolon
Preik was indirectly connected to the white nationalist Diagolon movement based on the quasi-militia videos he posted online back in 2021, but that connection is tenuous and may not exist at all. His problem that led to the connection is that the well-known anti-semitic provocateur who founded Diagolon, Jeremy Mackenzie, bragged about ratting Preik out.
An investigation into the now 42-year-old Preik started back on Sept. 14, 2021, and was prompted by videos posted online and shared to social media.
“The videos allegedly depicted masked individuals identifying themselves as militia, anti-establishment messaging and the display of multiple firearms,” according to a 2022 RCMP statement.
A five-year-old social media post under Landon Preik’s name referred to the “LYNX movement,” representing “Liberate your [neighbourhood]. Liberate your nation.”
Another post vaguely encouraged people to support the movement and urged action.
“Actions definitely speak louder than words. Are you doing anything.”
The videos got the attention of the RCMP-led Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET), a multi-agency unit focused on detecting, preventing, and disrupting criminal threats to national security, including terrorism, foreign actor interference, and terrorist financing.
As for the Diagolon connection, Mackenzie bragged in a video that he was the person who notified the RCMP about Preik’s social media videos. Preik was arrested on Jan. 28, 2022, a day after Mackenzie had been arrested for his own firearms charges. Mackenzie was apparently immediately released, prompting conspiracy theories that he’s a government agent.
“The story from MacKenzie – about ratting [Preik] out in Fall 2021 – makes no sense,” Alexandra Moore told me via email. Moore is not a lawyer but she ran CanuckLaw.ca, a website created in 2020 focused on legal matters and conspiracy theories. On the site she said she was stopping working on it as of this week, March 17, 2026. “He contacted RCMP about Preik to prevent an armed conflict. And that's a story he tells anyone who will listen…
“The obvious conclusion one can draw is that Jeremy ratted on [Preik] in January 2022 in order to get himself released. It stands the ‘public hero’ narrative he tells on its head. He's just a prison rat.”
Whatever led to INSET getting involved, they conducted a “non-custodial interview” with Preik in late 2021 then applied for a warrant to search the Henley Avenue home in Chilliwack where he lived with his mother.
That’s where they found the arsenal of weapons with high-capacity magazines, some loaded, most unsecured. During the search while Preik was at the Chilliwack RCMP detachment, officers seized his possession and acquisition licence (PAL), six bullets for a .44-calibre handgun, and a key to a safe.
In Preik’s bedroom at the house, police opened a gun safe and seized a number of prohibited weapons: an Armi Jager AP series semi-automatic rifle with an empty magazine; and a CZ 858 tactical semi-automatic rifle.
From a backpack beside the gun safe, they found prohibited and restricted devices, including:
• five black handgun magazines each capable of holding 15 cartridges;
• four CZ magazines capable of holding 30 cartridges; and
• a K100 dynamic shotgun.
From beside a trunk in Priek’s bedroom, the following prohibited items were seized:
• a CZVZ 58 sportster semi-automatic rifle that was insecure and loaded with a full 35-round magazine; and
• a CZ detachable magazine capable of holding 30 cartridges
From a black backpack behind the door in the room police seized a Rossi Ranch Hand rifle, which is not restricted, and from behind a bed, a Mossberg shotgun fully loaded.
Finally, from inside a desk drawer the seized a CZ 75 Luger semi-automatic handgun, which was not secured and had no trigger lock.
Serious heart condition
Judge Whyte explained Preik’s personal circumstances at the sentencing decision Friday, including that he suffers from “significant” health issues, namely, advanced coronary artery disease. He suffered multiple heart attacks over the course of the prosecution.
Preik works with his partner doing construction and had several letters of support submitted to the court from people who know him that said things such as that he is “kind, thoughtful and gentle.”
He also suffered negative media coverage, the court heard – Something Worth Reading being the only outlet that covered the case – despite the lack of violence in the case. However, he apparently understood how is intentions “could be misinterpreted.”
As for aggravating factors, as a PAL holder, Preik knew more than anyone about the strict rules around keeping and storing firearms.
“Mr. Preik is clearly not a responsible gun owner,” Judge Whyte said, adding that he had “an inexplicably cavalier approach to storing these firearms.”
The danger of unsecured firearms is obvious, but includes being a target for thieves as he openly shared his cause while holding his guns online.
“Mr. Preik’s conduct was inherently dangerous,” Judge Whyte said. “He knew, or ought to have known better.”
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