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Police probe gun, SUV used in Ryan Wedding-linked homicide for ties to unsolved cases

Two years after the killing of a suspected drug trafficker in Niagara Falls, Ont. — purportedly targeted by a gunman hired by Ryan Wedding’s alleged criminal network — police are still trying to unlock the victim’s iPhone and identify at least one other suspect.

Investigators are also seeking to piece together how the homicide, allegedly carried out by a hitman known as Mr. Perfect, fits into a web of unsolved crimes suspected of being linked to the drug-trafficking organization allegedly led by Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder for Canada.

by Blazingcatfur•April 7, 2026April 7, 2026•0•Crime

Inside the battle over Barry Sherman’s billions. Why a court may soon open the books on the murdered tycoon’s family legacy

A dispute has broken out over who should manage $2 billion of assets left behind by murdered business tycoon Barry Sherman.

On one side is his son Jonathon and his nominee on the board of the Sherman family trust, Toronto lawyer Michael Woollcombe.

On the other is Jonathon’s sister Alexandra, along with her former husband, and a money manager Barry trusted for years to handle the fortune he built up as founder of generic drug giant Apotex.

by Blazingcatfur•April 5, 2026April 5, 2026•0•Crime

Young man and teen boy shot dead outside Brampton school

A man in his 20s and a teenage boy were killed when gunfire erupted Friday night on the grounds of an elementary school in Brampton.

Peel Regional Police say officers responded to the deadly shooting near Rutherford Rd. and Weybridge Tr. – east of Kennedy Rd. N. – around 10:20 p.m. and located the two victims soon after.

Crime? In Brampton? I’m Shocked!

by Blazingcatfur•April 5, 2026April 5, 2026•0•Crime

Huge profits drawing organized crime to black market tobacco

The Hells Angels and other organized crime groups are increasingly involved in the lucrative black market cigarette business. The revelation comes after two recent seizures of illegal cigarettes and nicotine vapes in Southwestern Ontario.

Police identified 173 organized crime groups – including the mafia, the Hells Angels, the Outlaws and their support clubs – involved in black market tobacco, said Rick Barnum, chief executive of the National Coalition Against Contraband Tobacco.

Boy am I SHOCKED!

by Blazingcatfur•April 5, 2026April 5, 2026•0•Canada, Crime

Why is this alleged Toronto hit man being extradited to the U.S. over a Canadian murder? Defence presses court over Ryan Wedding co-accused

A lawyer for a small-time Toronto criminal facing extradition to the U.S. for allegedly murdering an enemy of Ryan Wedding’s cocaine empire is asking the Attorney General of Canada to disclose key evidence behind what he says is an entirely made-in-Canada investigation.

The defence request on Thursday casts a spotlight on a question that’s been at the forefront of other Ontario court proceedings in the sprawling FBI-led case: Why would someone like Malik Cunningham be extradited to the U.S. over an alleged offence against a Canadian victim that happened on Canadian soil — and was investigated by Canadian authorities?

No need to go Elbows Up over a criminal is there?

by Blazingcatfur•April 4, 2026April 3, 2026•0•Canada, Crime, USA

Canada’s Epidemic of Failed Fentanyl Prosecutions Contributes to Mounting Death Tolls

OTTAWA – More than 55,000 Canadians have died from opioid overdoses since national surveillance began in 2016. More than 7,000 died in 2022 alone. British Columbia has been in a declared public health emergency since 2016. The fentanyl death epidemic — driven by an alliance between Chinese Communist Party-connected chemical producers and Triads, Mexican cartels, and Snow Cartel proxies like the Wolfpack Alliance and Ryan Wedding — exploded from the epicenter of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in 2012. Fourteen years on, the toll continues to mount. South of the border, in the world’s largest consumer drug market, nearly 1.3 million Americans have died from drug overdoses since 1999 — mostly fed by cartel trafficking and drug lab networks operating in Mexico, but increasingly in recent years by production networks rooted in Canada.

by Blazingcatfur•April 4, 2026April 3, 2026•0•Crime

Ryan Wedding’s alleged Ontario ‘cocaine lawyer’ got bail. The Court of Appeal is set to decide whether that was a mistake

Federal prosecutors are set argue Wednesday why bail should be revoked for a Toronto-area lawyer accused of abusing his professional status and network to help alleged drug kingpin Ryan Wedding run a billion-dollar trafficking empire.

The Attorney General of Canada, representing U.S. prosecutors, contends that a Superior Court of Justice made several “serious reviewable errors of law” and “materially misapprehended” evidence in granting Deepak Paradkar bail last December, according to a notice of application.

h/t MW

by Blazingcatfur•April 2, 2026April 2, 2026•0•Crime

WARMINGTON: K9 cop helps take bite of out of jewelry thieves on Oshawa shopping spree

This was a dog day afternoon in Oshawa for five alleged jewel thieves who ended up wearing the collar and being put on a leash!

Let’s just say, this Durham Region cop helped take a bite out of crime on Sunday — and collar some suspected thieves too.

Four Oshawa Centre jewelry store robbery suspects in custody. https://t.co/4I5KLLgCuu pic.twitter.com/eUtGIzAEjM

— Toronto Crime Watch (@CrimewatchTO) March 30, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•March 31, 2026March 30, 2026•0•Crime

Sadistic lesbian foster moms made boy, 12, wear soaking wetsuit and joked ‘Shiver, shiver dumb f**k’ before his horrific death, murder trial hears

Two lesbian foster moms tortured a 12-year-old boy by forcing him to wear a soaking wetsuit as they mocked him in gut-wrenching messages before he was tragically found dead, prosecutors claim.

The disturbing claims about the death of the Canadian child, identified only as LL, have come to light during the murder trial of Becky Hamber, 44, and 46-year-old Brandy Cooney.

LL, who died on December 21, 2022, was found soaking wet, unresponsive, and emaciated in the basement of the couple’s Toronto-area home before being pronounced dead at the hospital, the court was told.

by Blazingcatfur•March 31, 2026March 30, 2026•0•Canada, Crime, WTF?

Internal RCMP report warns nitazenes could surpass fentanyl as ‘defining issue in Canada’s opioid crisis’

An internal RCMP report says that nitazenes — synthetic opioids police describe as “20 to 40 times more powerful than fentanyl” — could become a defining feature of the opioid crisis in Canada in the coming years.

Those drugs, which have been linked to hundreds of deaths in Canada, “are emerging as a growing threat,” the report says.

by Blazingcatfur•March 30, 2026March 30, 2026•0•Canada, Crime, Drugs

She had a family and a business in Mississauga’s Afghan community. How did Mezhgan Aini vanish and no one reported it for three years?

Mezhgan Aini had a husband and three children she cared about, family in Afghanistan who she talked to regularly, and a thriving seamstress business in Mississauga.

Then she was gone.

Mezhgan, 38, was reported missing by her sister in August 2025. Seven months later, Peel police issued a news release: The probe into her disappearance was now a homicide investigation.

Maybe the same reluctance that lead to the torture and death of a child was at work on this case?

by Blazingcatfur•March 30, 2026March 30, 2026•0•Crime

Douglas Todd: Unsolved murder of Chinese spiritual group worker justifies ‘passionate’ scrutiny, B.C. judge rules

The unsolved murder of an employee of a giant spiritual health organization — which a Mountie ranked as one of the most “strange” cases he’s ever seen — is back in the spotlight after a B.C. judge ruled the matter of significant public interest.

The killing of Bo Fan, an employee of Create Abundance, has drawn international media attention over the past six years, including from Canadian news outlets, Le Monde in France, the South China Morning Post in East Asia, Newsweek in the U.S., and The Sunday Guardian in India.

Very weird.

by Blazingcatfur•March 29, 2026March 29, 2026•0•"Canada - China's 24th Province", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Crime

Inside the Trans-Atlantic Trade in Iranian Weapons for Colombian Coke

In February last year, Antoine Kassis checked into the Windsor Golf Hotel & Country Club, a Victorian-style resort an hour north of Nairobi. Wearing an ill-fitting hooded sweatshirt, with gray stubbles and baggy eyes, he didn’t look like a typical upscale tourist.

The disheveled 58-year-old, who went by Tony, was a cousin of the recently deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. He had traveled to Kenya planning to meet a supposed arms inspector from a Colombian rebel group and complete a $14 million deal to import 500 kilos of cocaine to Syria in return for military-grade weapons supplied by Iran and Russia.

Kassis didn’t know the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency had been watching him for two years. As he waited in a cafe, U.S. agents accompanied by Kenyan police approached him. Two months later he was extradited to the U.S., ending a lengthy sting operation.

by Blazingcatfur•March 29, 2026March 29, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Colombia, Crime, Drugs, Iran

Judge seals ‘person of interest’ records from Barry and Honey Sherman murder investigation. Thousands of pages remain redacted

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.

by Blazingcatfur•March 27, 2026March 27, 2026•0•Crime

US Indictment Says China’s Fentanyl Suppliers Engineered Addiction Through Cartels. Their Websites Are Still Online

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.

by Blazingcatfur•March 26, 2026March 25, 2026•0•Crime