Crime

The three men accused in the suspected murder-for-hire killings of a Bowmanville couple possess blood-stained criminal CVs, the Toronto Sun has learned.

Three suspects are in custody in connection with what police say was a “targeted killing” in Bowmanville last year that left a pregnant woman and her husband dead.

During a news conference on Friday morning, police said Aram Kamel, 28, and his wife, 26-year-old Rafad Alzubaidy, were “shot multiple times at close range” at their home in Bowmanville in the early morning hours of Feb. 4, 2023.

Their bodies were discovered on the main floor of the residence more than 12 hours later after officers were called to the Crombie Road home to conduct a wellness check that afternoon, Det.-Sgt. Brad Corner told reporters during Friday’s update.

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New York’s subways aren’t safe. Three stranger-on-stranger homicides occurred during the first two months of the year, making a total of 34 killings in four years. Violent felony subway crime, overall, was 61 percent higher in January compared to January 2019, the start of New York’s last normal year. But Governor Kathy Hochul’s latest idea, deploying the National Guard on the platforms and trains, is no solution. The National Guard is a military force; it exists to respond to natural disasters and external threats, including terrorism. Subway crime and disorder are neither of these. They’re the predictable result of New York’s pullback over the past half-decade in incapacitating recidivist criminals. We don’t need to send in the troops. We just need to do what we did until 2019: keep anti-social and violent people off the subways.

… Febrio De-Zoysa, 19, is facing six counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder. He cannot have contact with five people, including the surviving husband and father.

De Zoysa did not have a lawyer when he appeared in court Thursday afternoon. He was represented by duty counsel.

Police say De-Zoysa is a Sri Lankan national who is believed to be in Canada as a student.

In 1984, Robert Mailman and Walter Gillespie were convicted for second-degree murder in Saint John. Forty years later, a New Brunswick judge confirmed their innocence. What happened?

A con woman dubbed the “Gucci Goddess” has pleaded guilty to swindling the US Army out of $108 million to buy dozens of homes and luxury cars, in one of the biggest fraud cases the military has seen.

Janet Yamanaka Mello, 57, allegedly created a fake company to siphon US government funds intended for the children of army personnel, according to prosecutors.

Go big or stay home.

A new report says the crisis in Canada’s bail system has worsened over the last decade, with more people in pre-trial custody and some spending weeks in detention before being released.

A report released today by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association says that by 2021-2022, the proportion of people in provincial and territorial jails who were awaiting bail or trial was more than 70 per cent — and nearly 79 per cent in Ontario.

Whenever Dennis Wilson wants to take a drive in his new SUV, he has to set aside an extra 15 minutes. That’s about how long it takes to remove the car’s steering wheel club, undo four tire locks and lower a yellow bollard before backing out of his driveway.

His Honda CR-V is also fitted with two alarm systems, a vehicle tracking device and, for good measure, four Apple AirTags. Its remote-access key fob rests in a Faraday bag, to jam illicit unlocking signals.

As a final touch, he mounted two motion-sensitive floodlights on his house and aimed them at the driveway in his modest neighborhood in Toronto.

The roster of characters arrested in the biggest gun bust in Canadian history has populated police blotters for years with their criminal capers.

Project Saxom was unveiled to the public on Thursday and the OPP-led probe announced 16 arrests and 279 charges. Cops also seized 274 illegal firearms, including 168 in the United States and 106 in Ontario.