Two-thirds of Canadians doubt the ability of police to recover stolen vehicles, according to a new poll from Nanos Research.
The survey found that 68 percent of Canadians lack confidence in law enforcement’s ability to deal with the increasing number of car thefts across the country. Only 29 percent said they had faith in police recovery efforts while 3 percent said they were unsure.
In the summer of 2022, police got a tip from Shoppers Drug Mart. Security at the pharmacy chain had spotted a pattern in a string of shoplifting incidents at suburban stores outside Toronto.
According to police, Shoppers reported that a group of thieves was repeatedly going into stores and picking out expensive items, like electric toothbrushes, vitamins and breast pumps. They scanned the items through a self-checkout kiosk so none of the staff got suspicious but didn’t actually complete the transaction, they just walked out with the merchandise.
Germany recorded a large rise in violent crime in 2023, the first year without pandemic restrictions, police statistics published Saturday showed.
Welt am Sonntag, which gained exclusive access to the data, said violent crime climbed 8.6%, to 214,099 cases — a 15-year high.
The newspaper said there was a nearly 7% increase in cases of dangerous and serious bodily harm, with 154,541 cases recorded — the highest number ever.
Cases of intentional simple bodily harm increased by 7.4% to 429,157.
It’s a real mystery apparently.
An employee who works at the site of one of the largest bank heists in Los Angeles history has suggested the Ocean’s Eleven-style break-in was an ‘inside job’.
The FBI and LAPD are still trying to piece together how burglars breached the roof of GardaWorld in Sylmar on Easter Sunday without triggering any alarms.
The mysterious crew gained access into the massive vault where they looted and escaped with around $30million, LAPD officials said.
Who doesn’t enjoy a good heist?
Nearly 600 stolen vehicles have been recovered from shipping containers in the Port of Montreal over the past few months as part of an interprovincial auto theft investigation, and 75 per cent of them were stolen in Ontario.
Speaking at a news conference Wednesday, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced the results of “Project Vector” – an operation to recover stolen vehicles that made it to the Port of Montreal and were intercepted before they could be illegally exported.
Three down and one to go.
… Police on Tuesday night said officers were interviewing the suspects and that charges were pending against Akashdeep Singh, 28, Sourav Sourav, 28, and Ramanpreet Massih, 23.
Convicted double murderer Alex Murdaugh was slammed with a 40-year prison term Monday morning for a slew of financial crimes he pleaded guilty to last year.
The disgraced former attorney has already been sentenced to two life terms for the shocking murders of his wife and 22-year-old son in one of the most closely watched criminal cases in recent history.
There’s something wrong when more and more GTA residents feel compelled to hire private security firms to patrol their neighbourhoods, watching for auto thieves, a city councillor says.
“It’s a terrible sign of a terrible problem,” Coun. Dianne Saxe of University-Rosedale Riding said in an interview.
“Clearly, it’s an enormous problem.”
I guess the Hamas Support Marches are depleting resources.
Or is the TTC overwhelming the TPS?
Maybe diversity is making Toronto stronger!
After playing a key role in securing Sam Bankman-Fried’s conviction, three former members of his inner circle must now await their fate on fraud charges related to the multi-billion dollar collapse FTX.
Caroline Ellison, Nishad Singh and Gary Wang admitted their roles in defrauding customers and clients of FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange, and its sister company Alameda Research of an estimated $8 billion and are due to be sentenced in the coming months.
All three of the former crypto executives provided damning testimony at Bankman-Fried’s trial in return for leniency.
It was late on a December 2021 evening when Joshua Junior Carter was shot in the leg and torso. He collapsed in a Winston-Salem, N.C., field. He didn’t have a phone to call for help.
No one called 911 to report the gunfire at a time when killings in the city were near record highs, according to reports. So, Carter remained in the field, alone and bleeding.
Before Jeffrey Epstein died in jail while awaiting charges for sex-trafficking minors, and in the years afterwards, a trail of documentary evidence identified associates and famous friends of the financier who visited his Caribbean island.
Flight logs named passengers aboard his jet, his calendar showed meetings planned at Little St James with a scientist, a prominent diplomat and a venture capitalist. Emails revealed in court documents showed a banker lounging in a hot tub there with a glass of white wine.
The cost of living has soared since COVID, owing to supply line disruptions, the war in Ukraine and climate-related disasters. Many Canadians feel the pinch of inflation, which is unpleasant enough. However, the rising cost of living may lead to another problem: higher crime.
Why would higher costs of living lead to increased crime? We can summarize this prediction in one word: desperation. When living is expensive, there are more people who are at risk of not affording their rent, mortgage, groceries and other necessities. Some Canadians barely have enough money to make it to payday, or don’t have enough. And as the saying goes, desperate times call for desperate measures.
Sam Bankman-Fried has learned nothing, and I’m not sure any of the rest of us have, either.
At his sentencing, I sat several rows behind Bankman-Fried, clad in prison khaki and clanking faintly when he walked from the shackles on his feet, while he gave his statement to the court. “I’m sorry about what happened at every stage,” Bankman-Fried said. “I failed everyone I cared about.”
I assume SBF is hoping that his appeal will be helped if he refuses to admit to the crimes committed or he’s just an entitled rich kid without boundaries.
Probably not a good plan when the Judge cites 3 instances of perjury during sentencing.
I am curious about Caroline Ellison’s conviction, one account suggested she may get off with no jail time at all.
The Stuttgart Higher Regional Court on Thursday found that Mercedes Benz staff had deliberately fitted unauthorized devices to rig emissions levels in some models.
The “Dieselgate” scandal, revolving around the revelation that automakers were cheating when it came to emissions tests, first rocked Volkswagen in 2015 and then spread to other carmakers.
Judge Kaplan: It is the judgment of the court that you are sentenced to 240 months then consecutive 60 [etc] for a total of 300 months [25 years]
— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) March 28, 2024
Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
Sam Bankman-Fried, the former cryptocurrency mogul who was convicted of fraud, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday, capping an extraordinary saga that upended the multi-trillion-dollar crypto industry and became a cautionary tale of greed and hubris.
Mr. Bankman-Fried’s sentence was shorter than the 40 to 50 years that federal prosecutors had recommended, but above the six-and-a-half-year sentence requested by the defense lawyers. A federal probation officer had recommended 100 years, just under the maximum possible penalty of 110 years behind bars.
I thought he would go down harder the Judge really ripped into him
‘Remorseless’ Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison — as judge rips him as power-obsessed scammer
A Manhattan judge ripped Sam Bankman-Fried as a “remorseless” scammer obsessed with political power as he sentenced the fallen crypto mogul to 25 years in prison Thursday — five months after he was found guilty of stealing more than $8 billion of funds from customers of his now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
Judge Lewis Kaplan said the 32-year-old convicted fraudster “presented himself as the good guy” all in favor of “appropriate regulation of the crypto industry” — but it was just an “act.”
Judge Kaplan: I find the Mr. Bankman-Fried gave perjured testimony at trial – he falsely testified that until the Fall of 2022 he had no knowledge that Alameda had spent FTX customer funds. He falsely testified that he first learned of the $8 billion in Oct 2022
— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) March 28, 2024
Well done.
Crypto Crook Sam Bankman-Fried Sentencing Set For Tomorrow pic.twitter.com/1VWK1QrNAB
— @stevenvoiceover (@stevenvoiceover) March 27, 2024
