TORONTO — A fourth teen accused in the fatal stabbing of a Toronto homeless man has pleaded guilty.
The girl, who was 14 at the time of the incident, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of 59-year-old Kenneth Lee.
Police have alleged that Lee, who was living in the city’s shelter system, died after he was swarmed and stabbed by a group of girls in December 2022.
Outside a retirement complex in east Toronto, where all but shift workers are asleep in the early hours, a dramatic police takedown is about to unfold.
In less than five hours, a police officer will be in hospital, a suspected car thief in handcuffs and a second suspect – a wanted fugitive.
This is the frontline in the war against auto theft in Canada — where a car is stolen roughly every five minutes.
The 400 kilograms of stolen gold disappeared from view on a country road outside Toronto, somewhere past a golf course and an apple orchard.
In the days after the brazen April 2023 robbery at Pearson Airport, Peel Police canvassed 225 homes and businesses, looking for security camera footage, hoping to trace the path of the white five-ton truck that had ferried away the pallet of gold bars.
Hitmen were given medical ‘murder kits’, while A&E staff had to write fake reports of accidents for insurance scams
When the mafia quietly took over the running of San Giovanni Bosco hospital in Naples, the plan was less about saving lives and more about making money and killing people.
Creating what one magistrate called an “anti-state”, the mob dealt drugs and held summits in wards, gave fast-track treatment to patients for cash, ran accident insurance scams in the emergency wing and used ambulances to deliver cocaine.
It was the middle of the pandemic, and the dizzyingly complex criminal case against Arash Missaghi was falling apart.
A looming trial was about to test the most substantial set of charges Missaghi — a man who would become known as a “prolific fraudster” — had ever faced. But in the midst of the pandemic, as courts struggled to hear proceedings on Zoom, the case was collapsing in a virtual Ontario courtroom.
Ten weeks out from a jury trial, Justice John McMahon heard reservations from Crown attorney Mitchell Flagg about several of the accused, including Missaghi, having yet to retain a lawyer, and the prospect of running a trial with several self-represented people, including one who would need the entire hearing translated into Farsi.
The Associated Press is receiving media and public backlash after it left out of a story that the two men who were arrested for allegedly murdering a young Texas girl were illegal aliens from Venezuela.
A toddler and a 40-year-old were killed in a quadruple shooting at a Vaughan, Ont. residence Friday morning, as police announce an arrest in what they’re describing as a “targeted” incident.
Police said the two other victims are in stable condition.
41-year-old Toronto resident Van Viet Duong has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder in connection with the shooting.
A businessman shot dead in an altercation with a former client on Monday victimized hundreds of people through myriad enterprises that sparked three major police operations, netted at least $100-million and triggered dozens of lawsuits, according to interviews and court records.
For all that, Arash Missaghi seemed immune from consequence. His voluminous court records show no convictions, no jail time and no successful lawsuits against him in Canada, while providing few – if any – indications why criminal charges against him were withdrawn on multiple occasions.
Update: Mom, dad, 2 kids were the four people found dead in rural Ontario home, mayor says
Ontario Provincial Police are investigating after four people were found dead in the town of Harrow, just south of Windsor.
Essex OPP officers were called to a residence on County Road 13 at approximately 1:30 p.m. on June 20, where they located four deceased individuals.
Vaughan shooting: Four people injured in daylight shooting
Four people have been taken to hospital after a daylight shooting in Vaughan Friday morning, York police said.
Officers were called to the Woodbridge area of Davos Road and Fossil Hill Drive just before 9 a.m. for a shooting.
Two people reportedly have life-threatening injuries while the extent of the injuries of the other two is unknown.
Update – One dead, 3 others injured in ‘targeted’ shooting at Vaughan home
Law enforcement officials in Utah are searching for a transgender suspect after two people were found murdered in their home this week.
Just after 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Washington City Police were called about shots fired in a local neighborhood, police said in a statement.
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A triple shooting in North York saw one man take the lives of two people he believed had defrauded him and his family of his life savings, the Star has learned.
Toronto police have not released the name of the shooter, saying only that he was 46 years old, but a source with knowledge of the investigation identified him as Alan Kats.
Kats’ wife, Alisa Pogorelovsky, told the Star in an emailed statement that her husband was devastated after court records show their family lost $1.28 million in a mortgage fraud scheme.
Neocon has the details.
The girls who swarmed Kenneth Lee in a downtown parkette filmed the bloodied, disoriented man on their phones during the attack, a courtroom heard Monday.
This was hours after the group had begun sharing bottles of Crown Royale, Sour Puss and Bacardi, as well as five marijuana blunts, one of the girls testified.
Three adults have died after shooting inside the in the lobby of an office space in North York’s Don Mills neighbourhood on Monday afternoon, police say.
The incident happened near Don Mills and Mallard roads, south of York Mills Road, at around 3:30 p.m.
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has deployed a new, mobile x-ray scanning machine to the Greater Toronto Area as part of an effort to crack down on the soaring number of auto thefts.
Officials unveiled the $3.5-million unit during a news conference at the CBSA’s regional headquarters in Mississauga Sunday afternoon.
Authorities said in a statement the mobile x-ray unit was bought as part of a national plan to combat auto theft which partly relies on “non-intrusive inspection technology.”
