VANCOUVER — A British Columbia government lawsuit seeks to merge almost a decade of litigation into a single, high-stakes test of whether the province can finally seize a fortified mansion near the U.S. border that was first swept up in a 2014 fentanyl investigation, raided in 2016, and is now at the center of a new synthetic-opioid case alleging its occupants contracted with the leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel to flood narcotics into Canada.
Sometime in the late 1980s or early ’90s, a man borrowed his girlfriend’s car and promptly crashed it, sending the vehicle plummeting down a ravine.
The crooks are waving down the servers at the Crime Cafe, sneaking in a few more cheeky offences before last call.
The feds have already proposed tightening bail for baddies; now Ontario is piling on.
Becky Hamber’s 12-year-old foster son was dead – found soaking wet in a wetsuit, emaciated and wasted to the size of a child half his age on Dec. 21, 2022 – and she and her wife Brandy Cooney were facing numerous charges including first-degree murder.
But in a computer note and several videos entered at their trial, Hamber went on endlessly about how difficult and unfair it all was – for her.
The Law Society of Ontario has suspended the licence of the self-proclaimed “cocaine lawyer” accused of working for alleged drug kingpin Ryan Wedding ahead of his extradition case on a U.S. murder charge.
Deepak Paradkar’s lawyer, Ravin Pillay, told a tribunal on Friday that his client accepted the Law Society’s interlocutory application to suspend his licence in the wake of the U.S. criminal charges announced by authorities last month.
However, Pillay said after the hour-long hearing, “I think it’s important to state that Mr. Paradkar denies the allegations, maintains his innocence and intends to vigorously defend against the criminal charges at the appropriate time, in the appropriate forum and based on a full evidentiary record.”
The points cards were popping for members of Toronto’s criminal fraternity this week.
Me? I couldn’t begin to pick the player of the week, but there were two standouts whose dedication to craft is noteworthy. But … we hasten to add, none of the charges have been tested in court.
THE horrific case of Vincent Chan, the north London nursery worker who this week admitted sexually abusing toddlers and hoarding 25,000 indecent images, has rightly shaken the country.
Chan was not a rogue babysitter or an unregulated childminder. He worked at a respected £2,000-a-month nursery. He passed his enhanced vetting. He was subject to all the ‘industry-leading’ safeguarding checks we trust to keep children safe. And yet for years he abused children in a setting parents had every reason to believe was secure.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released never-before-seen images of Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous island.
The photographs and video appear to show several bedrooms in the US Virgin Islands home, as well as a room with masks on a wall and a phone with names written on speed-dial buttons.
In a statement, the committee’s Democratic leader, Robert Garcia, said they collectively form a “disturbing look” into Epstein’s world and are being released to “ensure public transparency”.
More youth under 18 in Canada were charged with homicide in 2024 than the previous year, according to new figures from Statistics Canada — an unexpected rise that comes even as national homicide rates edged downward.
The 2024 homicide report shows 72 youths were charged with homicide last year, up from 65 in 2023. That pushes the youth accused of murder to 0.94 per 100,000 youths.
Among those cases, police recorded 13 incidents involving multiple youth accused, including five homicides with three or more youth charged.
OTTAWA — In less than half a year, a Canadian criminal intelligence report shows, police and partner agencies across the country seized 386 kilograms of fentanyl and analogues in a coordinated national enforcement blitz — with Ontario and British Columbia together accounting for more than 90 per cent of the total.
Border officials stressed they believe the vast majority of the fentanyl seizures were for domestic consumption and not for export to other nations.
The Ontario Provincial Police sergeant who led the investigation into Becky Hamber and Brandy Cooney testified at their first-degree murder trial Monday, outlining evidence collected by police in the case against the couple.
Sgt. Julie Powers told the Milton, Ont., courtroom that she spent weeks reviewing photos, videos, audio recordings, messages and call logs on electronic devices police took from Cooney and Hamber when they were charged in 2023 in relation to two boys they were trying to adopt.
The mass shooting in California that killed four people, including three kids, erupted just as a toddler was cutting cake at her 2nd birthday party, according to her mom — who said the shooters “deserve to go to hell.”
The birthday girl’s mother, Patrice Williams, said partygoers dropped to the floor as soon as the gunshots rang out inside the packed banquet hall in Stockton on Saturday.
… Authorities haven’t identified any suspects but have indicated the shooting was gang-related.
Gang related? That is cartel level violence.
Pretty tough lingo for some pretty bad actors.
“I’ve got a little tip for lowlife criminals out there. If you don’t want to get shot, don’t break into someone’s house. It’s really that simple.
“Isn’t it? It really is.”
Now that’s laying down the law.
There’s an old joke that in the 1970s and 1980s, James Q. Wilson waged a one-man battle against a thousand sociologists, criminologists, and other academics. The punchline: “A thousand to one against Wilson—that’s almost a fair fight.” The quip captures both Wilson’s towering intellect—recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, author of dozens of books, and arguably the most important conservative social scientist of the late twentieth century—and the impact of one major strand of his work, launched in high-profile magazine articles and expressed most powerfully in 1975’s Thinking About Crime.
