Toronto police still trying to identify man after ‘random’ assault at Kipling Station

Toronto police have released fresh images following an alleged “random” attack on a woman at Toronto’s Kipling Subway Station.

Police said officers responded to an assault at the station, which is located in the Dundas Street and Kipling Avenue area, around 11:15 a.m. on Thursday.

A man assaulted an 85-year-old woman and the victim was taken to hospital to be treated for her injuries, police said.

Share

Another Year, Another Bloody Summer

The surge in violent crime that began a few years ago continues. It will abate only when Americans demand and get action from local and national leaders.

The crime numbers we’ve seen already this year highlight the problem.

A serious upswing in violent crime often follows significant anti-police protests and less aggressive policing. Researchers call this the Ferguson Effect or the Minneapolis Effect.

The events of the summer of 2020 created a perfect storm. 

Share

The Exoneration Hustle: Are radical prosecutors freeing guilty murderers?

The headline is becoming more common: “Innocent Man Freed After Decades in Jail for Murder!” As a matter of statistical probabilities, it must be true that some innocent defendants are convicted. But experienced law enforcement officials are growing concerned that progressive prosecutors are freeing guilty murderers in their rush to enforce their own politics of decarceration and equity. A close look at how this exoneration hustle works is worth reviewing because the pattern becomes clear.

Share

No motive except violence: The twin brothers who planned the Victoria bank shootout

Precisely one week after a quiet Victoria street exploded into a shootout with heavily armed bank robbers, Saanich Police Chief Constable Dean Duthie told a Tuesday press conference it was sheer chance that the city’s tactical squad just happened to be nearby.

“I don’t want to even think about what could have happened if they had not been there,” he said.

Share

Former Ontario bureaucrats charged in alleged $11M COVID-19 fraud are headed back to court

The Ontario bureaucrats fired after the alleged theft of $11 million in provincial COVID-19 relief funds are headed back to court this week as criminal proceedings continue.

Sanjay and Shalini Madan, a married Toronto couple terminated from the public service in 2020 after the alleged fraud, will be in long trial assignment court on Wednesday.

They were charged last September by the Ontario Provincial Police, but their criminal trial might not begin in earnest until September 2023.

Share

Saanich, B.C. bank shooter was rejected by military, CAF says

One of the twin brothers who was killed in a shootout with police outside a bank in Saanich, B.C., last week had applied to join the Canadian Armed Forces but was rejected, a military spokesperson confirmed Monday.

Mathew Auchterlonie had tried to join the Canadian Army but did not pass the aptitude test, the national defence spokesperson said.

The spokesperson declined to say when he applied.

I’m afraid to ask what’s on the aptitude test.

Share

Brothers in botched B.C. bank robbery had become angry and radical, obsessed with guns and ‘government tyranny’

A portrait has begun to emerge of Mathew and Isaac Auchterlonie, 22-year-old brothers from central Vancouver Island who were named Saturday as suspects in a botched robbery last week at a Bank of Montreal branch in Saanich, B.C.

As children, according to their closest friends, they were shy, a little nerdy and liked fantasy novels and Star Wars figurines. One was rarely found without the other. Following graduation, they seemed to drop off the face of the Earth, ghosting their former friends. According to one of the brother’s online footprints, he was becoming increasingly angry and radical, obsessed with guns, explosives and perceptions of government tyranny.

One man’s perceptions are another man’s policy.

Share

Like just about everyone else in Canada … Justin Trudeau the frequent focus of Saanich bank robber Instagram posts

A now-deleted Instagram feed of one of the Saanich bank shooter suspects contains posts containing anti-government, and pro-gun content.

Twenty-two-year-olds Isaac and Mathew Auchterlonie are the two suspects identified by RCMP.

They were twin brothers, who former classmates say went to Frances Kelsey Secondary School in Mill Bay.

h/t RM

Share

Northrup’s line-of-duty death ‘still affecting’ fellow Toronto cops a year later

Toronto Police Det.-Const. Jeffrey Northrup was remembered by 52 Division on Saturday — the first anniversary of his death.

Northrup, 55, and his partner were investigating a stabbing in City Hall’s underground parking lot when it’s alleged the 31-year veteran was intentionally struck by a vehicle driven by Thornhill accountant Umar Zameer.

Very odd goings on.

Share

Police identify killed B.C. bank gunmen as 22-year-old twin brothers

Twin brothers from Vancouver Island have been named as the suspects who were killed in a police shootout during an attempted armed bank robbery in Saanich,B.C., this week.

On Saturday morning, RCMP released the names of the two suspects: 22-year-olds Mathew and Isaac Auchterlonie of Duncan.

Police said the suspects’ family is cooperating with the investigation.

Crazy.

Share

Three cops, K9 killed in Kentucky shootout

Three Kentucky police officers and a police canine were killed and at least four other officers were hurt in a shootout at a home of what cops called a “terrorist on a mission.”

Lance Storz, 49, was taken into custody after an almost five hour standoff with officers who had showed up at his door in rural Prestonburg with a warrant for his arrest in a domestic violence incident, according to reports.

Storz, who was armed with a rifle, opened fire and hit two officers in the Thursday evening incident, Kentucky State Police said.

Share

‘Ghislaine Maxwell’s judge said no one’s above the law, but men who raped us are’

The sound of shackles as Ghislaine Maxwell entered the courtroom will stay with Sarah Ransome for ever. “The shame and guilt you feel after being raped is deafening. I have been shamed for 16 years. So to hear those shackles was basically like me putting my middle finger up to every single one of those people who have ever called me names, who doubted me and made me doubt myself,” she says. “It was a reality check on the severity of what she has actually done, not only to me, but to so many others.”

Share

Theft victims tracked down their stolen cars. But the police didn’t show up

Adam Westland knows cars and trucks. His friends call him a “petrolhead” — someone who’s obsessed with vehicles.

And so when Julie, his wife, looked out their Toronto window in December and shouted — “Adam, the truck’s gone” — he swung into action. It was a few days before Christmas, and they were about to drive to Prince Edward County to see family.

Using the state-of-the-art tracker he’d installed, Adam precisely located his Ford F-150 Raptor pickup while on the phone to Toronto police. What happened next is becoming a common occurrence in Toronto. The police did not show up.

In a nutshell work on the assumption that your vehicle and its contents are a write-off and hope your insurance company will make it all better.

Share