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Sweden aims to lower age of criminal responsibility to 13 as gangs recruit children

Sweden is moving forward with plans to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 13 in serious cases as it grapples with a growing number of children recruited into gangs to carry out violent crimes without facing serious legal repercussions.

Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer said the country was in an “emergency situation” and stopping the use of children in criminal networks was a “crucial task” for the government.

But several authorities, including police, prison officials and prosecutors, have opposed the plan, with some worried that it may lead to even younger children becoming offenders.

by Blazingcatfur•January 28, 2026January 27, 2026•0•"Immigration from incompatible cultures", Crime, Sweden

Canadian ex-Olympian pleads not guilty to 17 felonies including drug trafficking

Ryan Wedding, the Canadian former Olympic snowboarder accused of cocaine distribution and orchestrating several murders, appeared on Monday in a southern California courtroom for arraignment.

The 44-year-old has been charged with drug trafficking, conspiracy to murder, witness tampering and money laundering, among other charges. Authorities allege that after his snowboarding career, Wedding “turned to a life of crime” as a narcotics trafficker and led an organization that moved cocaine from South America to the US and Canada.

by Blazingcatfur•January 27, 2026January 26, 2026•0•Crime

Inside Ryan Wedding’s alleged rise through the narcotrafficking world

Before Ryan Wedding was arrested last week as one of the FBI’s Top 10 most wanted fugitives, and before he was charged a decade earlier for masterminding a plot to sail thousands of kilos of cocaine up from the Caribbean to Canada’s East Coast, Canadian police viewed the former Olympic snowboarder as one of the many middling profiteers in Metro Vancouver’s massive underground cannabis trade.

It was 2006, and Mounties, acting on an anonymous tip given to the Vancouver police, raided a farm in the eastern suburb of Maple Ridge. There they found thousands of pot plants and dozens of kilograms of dried flower, worth roughly $10-million at the time.

by Blazingcatfur•January 26, 2026January 26, 2026•0•Crime

After allegedly killing a ‘rat,’ could Ryan Wedding turn FBI informant himself?

As an alleged cocaine kingpin on the run, Ryan Wedding is accused of ordering the murders of rival drug traffickers and an FBI witness who he considered a “rat.”

He’s even said to have placed a $5 million US bounty on the informant’s head.

After all that, could Wedding now be the one to spill what he knows about the cartels?

More … Ryan Wedding arrested: The full story of the arrest of the ex-Olympian turned international drug lord
h/t Canuknucklehead™

by Blazingcatfur•January 24, 2026January 24, 2026•0•Crime

Accused of murdering of her would-be son, Becky Hamber admits telling boy he ‘subtracts value from everyone’s lives’

Last week, Becky Hamber told her murder trial that text messages were the only times she and her wife spoke about the two brothers they were seeking to adopt in such offensive terms as “idiot,” “dumbass,” and “it” — but that she never spoke that way to the boys’ faces.

On Thursday, she conceded that this wasn’t always the case.

by Blazingcatfur•January 23, 2026January 23, 2026•0•Crime

FBI to give update on ‘major’ investigation amid U.S. media reports Ryan Wedding in custody

…Wedding’s apparent capture brings to an end a search that began in 2015, when the RCMP sought to arrest him on cocaine trafficking charges after the Mounties’ large-scale Operation Harrington investigation into drug imports to Canada.

by Blazingcatfur•January 23, 2026January 23, 2026•0•Crime

Ghislaine Maxwell is finally going to face Congress

Ghislaine Maxwell is set to testify before Congress over her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring.

Maxwell, who is in a Texas prison camp serving a 20-year sentence, is expected to appear virtually before the House oversight committee on February 9.

by Blazingcatfur•January 21, 2026January 21, 2026•0•Crime

Murders dropped sharply in several major Canadian cities last year, data show

Homicides fell by about half last year in Toronto and Winnipeg, police data show, part of a remarkable downturn in lethal violence across Canada that experts say politicians must consider as they push stiffer sentences for violent offenders.

In 2025, several shocking killings prompted promises by politicians to deter violence by amending the Criminal Code. In April, a mass vehicle attack killed 11 people in Vancouver. In August, an eight-year-old Toronto boy was killed in his bed by a stray bullet.

by Blazingcatfur•January 21, 2026January 20, 2026•0•"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", Crime

Inside Canada’s Diaspora Extortion Pipeline—How Organized Crime Fraud in Student Visas, International Schools, and Mass Migration Became a Recruiting Stream for Shooting Squads

OTTAWA — Canada’s spiraling extortion crisis targeting Indo-Canadian communities is being driven by international organized crime that has exploited a whole industry of designated learning institutes and immigration consultant shops through massive fraud, coercing vulnerable student migrants into serving in extortion squads that are terrorizing families and businesses, with brazen shootings now occurring on a near daily basis in Surrey, B.C., the epicenter of a national security threat now spreading through communities in Toronto, Edmonton, and Winnipeg, The Bureau’s investigations have revealed.

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2026January 16, 2026•0•"Immigration from incompatible cultures", Crime

Western Standard investigation exposes Hezbollah allegations and overthrow plot in Alberta’s ‘Corrupt Care’ scandal

“Is that David Wallace?” Western Standard Publisher Derek Fildebrandt asked reporter David Wiechnik after he had muted the Zoom call they were on.

“Yeah,” Wiechnik replied.

“Holy shit,” Fildebrandt said.

“That guy is the most untrustworthy guy there is.”

(Incognito)

by Blazingcatfur•January 16, 2026January 16, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Crime, WTF?

Bettors and players fixed dozens of NCAA basketball games, prosecutors say

Sports bettors worked with dozens of players across NCAA men’s basketball to rig the outcome of at least 29 games, federal prosecutors alleged in an indictment unsealed Thursday.

The athletes played for schools across the country, prosecutors claim, including Tulane, St. Louis University, DePaul, Fordham and others.

Among the defendants named by prosecutors are Shane Hennen and Marves Fairley, who were previously charged in a case involving an NBA coach and players. Prosecutors say Hennen and Fairley were at the head of a gambling ring that recruited college basketball players around the country to manipulate their performances in games that Fairley and Hennen bet on.

Tip of the iceberg extending to all pro sports?

by Blazingcatfur•January 15, 2026January 15, 2026•0•Crime, WTF?

Canadians increasingly frightened in their own neighbourhoods: poll

Canadians are increasingly concerned about rising crime in their communities, according to a new Angus Reid Institute poll.

“New data from Angus Reid,” says Shachi Kurl, president of the institute, “shows that three-in-five (62 per cent) Canadians believe crime has been rising in their communities over the last five years. That’s a lot more than the number of Canadians who say there’s been no change (24 per cent) or a decrease (five per cent).”

by Blazingcatfur•January 12, 2026January 12, 2026•0•Canada, Crime

As couple’s trial resumes, advocate questions Children’s Aid Society’s ‘outrageous’ decisions before boy died

With the trial for two women accused of killing a 12-year-old boy they were trying to adopt now in its final weeks, the public deserves to know if and how the Children’s Aid Society (CAS) has been held accountable, says Ontario’s former child advocate.

But full transparency from the CAS is very unlikely, said Irwin Elman, who was in the independent watchdog role from 2008 until the Ford government closed his office in 2019.

“The child protection system is a closed system,” said Elman, who’s not involved in the trial but has been closely following it.

No one will lose their job over this horror story.

by Blazingcatfur•January 12, 2026January 12, 2026•0•Crime, WTF?

Why Canadians feel unsafe despite crime rates dropping

I am one of those people who suffers from an acute, yet ephemeral, fear of flying, which washes over me the precise moment I feel the plane’s wheels lift off the tarmac. “What type of idiot risks her life in a metal box flying 30,000 feet above the ground?,” I think to myself as I look around the cabin, seeking comfort in the seemingly calm faces of the imputed idiots around me. I forget about this fear right around the moment the plane completes its ascent, only to be suffused with it yet again when the pilot announces he is ready to steer the flying metal box back down to Earth.

by Blazingcatfur•January 9, 2026January 9, 2026•0•Canada, Crime

He was an aspiring rapper just getting his life together…

Accused in fatal Yorkdale GO bus shooting has extensive criminal history

The man accused of fatally shooting a passenger on a GO bus in North York over the weekend has an extensive criminal history, including convictions for attempted murder and firearm offences.

Shots were fired on board the packed Oshawa-bound bus around 7 p.m. on Sunday. Officers who responded to Yorkdale Station found a man suffering from gunshot wounds. The victim, who police have not yet identified, was pronounced dead at the scene.

by Blazingcatfur•January 7, 2026January 7, 2026•0•Crime, WTF?