Crime

Seven GTA residents, including ServiceOntario employees, are accused of taking part in a major auto theft ring that involved widespread identity theft.

Some 73 charges were laid in the police investigation, called Project Safari, which began in February 2023.

“As the project progressed, investigators learned that suspects were conspiring with employees at ServiceOntario, who were trafficking in driving and vehicle data taken from the Ministry of Transportation database,” Toronto police said in a prepared statement.

B.C. is seeking a court order to compel property owners to explain where $1 million came from to buy a Salt Spring Island house in 2017.

B.C. Solicitor General Mike Farnworth said the application filed in B.C. Supreme Court on Thursday is the first in a series of so-called unexplained wealth orders he expects the province to file.

On the evening of November 25, three young men of Palestinian descent were accosted by Jason Eaton in Burlington Vermont and shot. All three men survived their wounds. Their attorneys and the mother of one of the victims claim that the shootings should be investigated as a hate crime.

An incarcerated former gang member and FBI informant was charged Friday with attempted murder in the stabbing last week of ex-Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin at a federal prison in Arizona.

John Turscak stabbed Chauvin 22 times at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson and said he would’ve killed Chauvin had correctional officers not responded so quickly, federal prosecutors said.

A 48-year-old man pleaded not guilty to attempted murder in the shooting of three Palestinian college students in Burlington, Vermont on Saturday night — as the alleged gunman’s mother revealed he had previously struggled with depression.

Jason Eaton, 48, was taken into custody Sunday afternoon after he was identified as a suspect. He pleaded not guilty to three counts of attempted murder in the second degree on Monday and is being held without bail.

A suspect has been arrested over the shooting of three Palestinian college students in Vermont – as the life of one hangs in the balance.

Jason J. Eaton, 48, was seized on Sunday afternoon near the site of Saturday’s attack and is expected to appear in court on Monday, Burlington Police revealed.

In a teen-on-teen killing that has shocked Las Vegas, four teenagers have been charged as adults in the beating death of 17-year-old Jonathan Lewis, who was set upon by ten boys in what police say was a fight over headphones and a vape pen.

Police have arrested nine of the ten boys believed to have been involved in the fight. The four boys ages 16 or older – Dontral Beaver, 16, Damien Hernandez, 17, Gianni Robinson, 17, and Treavion Randolph, 16 – have been charged as adults with second degree murder.

This is being memory holed.

A tiny Canadian town is on edge after three friends mysteriously vanished – but cops won’t link their cases.

Lawrence Bertrim, 43, Robbie Thomson, 34, and Steve Tate, 34, have disappeared in the past 14 months from Smith Falls, Ontario.

Residents have been left uneasy as no arrests have been made and the Ontario Provincial Police insist on investigating each case separately.

Sometimes, as Sigmund Freud never quite said, politics is just politics.

One would not always know this by reading the American press. Unencumbered by extraneous talents and achievements, a sizeable number of this country’s journalists have come to exhibit an excessive faith in the only tool that they are capable of wielding: words. These days, to open up a newspaper or website is to get the feeling that the authors and editors who are featured within believe that reality is optional, that the truth must be subordinated to the narrative, and that all human experiences have been crafted out of soft putty. Once, we described members of the media as “reporters.” Presently, “scriptwriters” might be more apt.