Yorkdale shooting victim was rapper with ties to Montreal gangs: Report

The man who was shot dead early Thursday in the parking lot of Yorkdale Shopping Centre is reportedly a rapper linked to Montreal gangs.

Montreal’s La Presse reported that the victim is a rapper known as Lil Bentley, whose real name is Kashif Jamal Bentley-Jean.

When we were kids we used to head to Yorkdale just to hang around, get into some minor hijinks and head home, we were kids 10,11, 12. 

Toronto is now a city of vibrant and diverse crime scenes.

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Singh Transport … Again

Speeding transport driver nabbed with $4.4 million in contraband tobacco along Hwy. 401 in Kingston

… Inside, OPP and MTO officers discovered the trailer was filled with over 17,820 kilograms of contraband; fine-cut tobacco with an estimated value was $4.4 million.

According to the officer, that equates to a total federal and provincial tack loss of approximately $9.1 million.

The driver, 60-year-old Joga Singh Dhillon of Puslinch Township near Cambridge, has been charged with trafficking contraband tobacco.

h/t DS

 

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Jeffrey Epstein was an intelligence asset—Eric Weinstein

Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was a “product of one or more elements of the intelligence community,” Eric Weinstein, the mathematician and a former managing director of Thiel Capital, said during an appearance on the Diary of a CEO podcast, hosted by Steven Bartlett.

Weinstein, who said he had met Epstein, described him as “certainly was not a financier in any standard sense. That was a cover story.”

Trump rants that his ‘PAST’ supporters have bought into Jeffrey Epstein ‘Hoax’

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DEA Busts Canadian Narco Whose Chinese Supplier Promised to Ship 100 Kilos of Fentanyl Precursors per Month From Vancouver to Los Angeles

VANCOUVER — A senior Indo-Canadian gangster from an ultra-violent British Columbia–based fentanyl trafficking gang with ties to Latin cartels, Chinese Triads, and Hezbollah was taken down in a stunning U.S. government sting that saw a thick-accented Chinese narco casually promise an undercover agent at a Vancouver café that he could ship 100 kilograms of fentanyl precursors per month from Vancouver to Los Angeles, using his trucking company fronted by an Indo-Canadian associate.

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Police face questions in Quadeville after attack on Ontario child

Residents of a tiny rural community in eastern Ontario pressed police on Saturday for answers about a disturbing attack on a young girl that investigators believed was caused by an animal — until they arrested a teenager in the case.

Nearly 100 people filled a small community centre in Quadeville, about 170 kilometres west of Ottawa, for a town hall organized by Ontario Provincial Police to address residents’ questions and concerns about their investigation.

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10 ways ex-Olympian Ryan Wedding has evaded arrest for 10 years

Once a Team Canada Olympic snowboarder, Ryan James Wedding has spent more than 10 years on the run from authorities, while allegedly leading a murderous, transnational drug-smuggling empire.

Listed as one of the FBI’s ten most-wanted fugitives since March, the U.S. State Department is offering a $10-million US reward for information leading to his arrest.

So, how has Wedding, 43, evaded capture for so long?

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Lies, liars, and lechers

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. I’m from the government and I’m here to help. The check is in the mail.

The Titanic is the safest ship ever built. I never had sex with that woman! If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. The Earth has only 12 years left until it will spontaneously combust. We just need two weeks to flatten the curve. The vaccines are totally safe. The 2020 presidential election was the most secure and accurate one ever. These protests were fiery but peaceful. Hunter’s laptop has all the earmarks of a Soviet disinformation campaign. Donald Trump may be a Russian plant. Jan. 6 was an insurrection! The Chinese balloon was just gathering weather-related information, and was probably just blown off course, anyway. The Coronavirus didn’t come from the Wuhan lab.

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Inside the Virginia Giuffre family’s legal battle over Prince Andrew’s millions

Virginia Giuffre’s family is preparing for a legal battle with her allegedly abusive husband to stop him inheriting her wealth, which includes an estimated $10 million of Prince Andrew’s money.

Giuffre, who died by suicide at her Perth home in April, had built up a multimillion-dollar estate from victim compensation funds and civil lawsuit settlements resulting from abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and his high-profile friends.

The Times can reveal the California-born 41-year-old died intestate, meaning her husband, Robert Giuffre, could be entitled to as much as a third of that estate under Australian law.

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Murder, extortion and a mass shooting: Inside the tow truck wars and the attack on Scarborough’s Piper Arms pub

It was just before sunrise when the shots rang out on Solace Road.

First responders arrived at the sleepy Markham street on March 7 to find debris strewn across the front porch of the Raguthas family home. The front doors had been kicked in.

Inside, Neveeth Raguthas, a GTA tow truck driver, and his sister, Nilakshi, had been shot. Their dog, Lucky, was dead on the floor.

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Mushroom murders and cancer lie: Nine weeks of evidence that gripped a courtroom

For two years, the mystery of exactly what happened at Erin Patterson’s dining table has gripped the world.

Five people sat down to eat lunch at her home in rural Australia on 29 July 2023. Within a week, three would be dead, a fourth would be fighting for his life, and the fifth would be under investigation for intentionally poisoning her guests with wild mushrooms.

After a much-watched trial in the tiny town of Morwell, Patterson has now been found guilty of murdering three relatives at the lunch and attempting to kill another. Those she killed were Patterson’s former in-laws, Don Patterson, 70, and Gail Patterson, 70, as well as Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, 66.

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