Crime

A Toronto judge has kept sealed portions of thousands of pages of Barry and Honey Sherman murder case documents that reveal the identities of “many” individuals police speculate were involved in the killings, including information Barry provided to his own doctor before he died.

“I am satisfied that the ends of justice would be subverted by the disclosure of the redacted materials at this time,” Justice David Porter said in his recent ruling on the Star’s now eight-year-old request for access to the police files.

I wonder if the person of interest is the son? Two sisters have suggested he may be responsible.

DAYTON – A federal grand jury in Ohio has returned a precedent-setting indictment charging two Chinese chemical companies and six Chinese nationals with conspiring to supply fentanyl precursors and special cutting agents to increase demand for fentanyl distributed across North America — and, for the first time in any prosecution of Chinese chemical suppliers, an allegation of attempted material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.

RCMP officers executed search warrants at the homes of former Calgary mayor Jyoti Gondek and current city councillor Andre Chabot, Global News has learned.

According to Gondek, who served as Calgary’s mayor for a single term between 2021 and 2025, officers executed a search warrant at her home and seized a cellphone.

h/t Mauser

A Burlington couple did not intend to kill the severely malnourished 12‑year‑old boy they were trying to adopt; instead, he likely died from “refeeding syndrome” as they tried to nurse him back to health, defence lawyers argued Monday on the first day of closing arguments at a disturbing Ontario murder trial.

That defense deserves a slap in the face.

A year before he agreed to help the FBI take down alleged drug lord Ryan Wedding, Jonathan Acebedo Garcia appeared in a music video.

A smiling Acebedo Garcia is seen only briefly in the outro, as the bouncing reggaeton beat winds down. Dressed in a branded cap and hoodie, the Montrealer poses with the artist and two others in front of a blue convertible at an auto body shop in Laval, Que. He removes his hands from his pockets to flash the peace sign, and the music fades.

In the dribbling and desultory release of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails over the past few months, one question has risen above the filthy froth: why did brilliant economists, doctors, and chieftains of industry seek Epstein’s counsel and kowtow to him? Shouldn’t they have known better?

Part of the answer is simple: his infamous black book of contacts. Among a certain set—particularly the one I grew up around in Manhattan—we salivated over whose name might be tarnished next. But as it played out, the little book served as a road map of who mattered.

When his trial began in February, Frank Stronach faced 12 counts related to seven female complainants whose allegations included sexual assault and the historical charges of rape and attempted rape.

Now, with all the evidence heard and closing submissions set for the end of the month, those charges have been whittled down to seven — related to four of the initial seven complainants.

That the Crown has decided to drop five charges, and discard the testimony of three complainants, has raised some questions about the initial strength of some of their cases and whether enough was done beforehand to anticipate potential problems.

A staff sergeant at a Toronto super jail has been criminally charged in the wake of the massive police corruption probe, Project South.

Muhamer Oruglica is accused of directing another staff member at the Toronto South Detention Centre to unlawfully search an inmate on the jail’s database last September.

York police arrested the 35-year old in late February, just weeks after announcing the results of a months-long investigation that uncovered Toronto cops had allegedly leaked confidential information used to facilitate shootings, extortion and other crimes — including a plot to murder a manager known for his strict enforcement inside the Toronto jail.

Blocks away from Manhattan federal court, a distraught fashion model sat on a street corner, wiping tears from her face and gesturing in disbelief as a family friend tried to console her.

Only moments earlier, Shani Zigron had sat in the gallery on Monday evening, watching as a jury sealed the fate of her husband, Alon Alexander, and his two real estate scion brothers, Oren and Tal, convicting them on all counts in a sprawling sex trafficking conspiracy dating back more than a decade.

The once high-flying siblings now face the possibility of life in prison.

The brothers were worse than Epstein.