Crime

In the 1990s and 2000s, the Department of Justice played a critical role in halting the violence plaguing American cities. Federal prosecutors used programs like Operation Ceasefire and Project Exile to target convicted criminals caught with guns for long prison sentences, helping to initiate the great American crime decline. Now, with cities once again beset by rising violent crime, it’s a good time to check on the DOJ’s activity. A new report from researchers at Syracuse University does just that, tracking and ranking 90 federal districts based on prosecutions of weapons offenses—generally, convicted criminals caught with guns. The results are revealing.

Was the heist an Ocean’s 11 caper or an inside job?

A major heist at Pearson Airport in Toronto has left a major bank out $22 million and a leading airline wondering what went wrong.

Seems the value is going down.

Tim Yergeau, 36, the former director of strategic communications at the Southern New England branch of Planned Parenthood, died by suicide on Tuesday amid a child pornography investigation in Connecticut last week.

“The person who died was definitely the suspect in a child pornography investigation and the person who committed suicide,” New Haven Police Chief Karl Jacobson told the New Haven Registrar.

Five days earlier, members of the Special Victims Unit investigating the child pornography case reportedly broke down the door of Yergeau’s neighbor — and handcuffed the woman before realizing they had raided the wrong apartment.

Abortionist & child pornographer does not seem a moral stretch at all for that progressive circle.

San Francisco police have arrested a fellow tech executive for the stabbing murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee.

Lee was stabbed in the street last week. He was visiting the city from Miami, where he lived.

Police are yet to confirm an identity for the suspect, but Mission Local reports he was a fellow tech executive who lives in the Bay Area.

The Toronto Police Service was joined by other Ontario police services and Canadian and American law enforcement agencies to announce the results of a major firearm trafficking investigation.

Forty-two people were arrested and 422 criminal charges laid following a year-long cross-border investigation known as Project Moneypenny, which also saw illegal narcotics, cash, and 173 firearms seized in Canada and the United States.

Very multicultural crew.

The vast majority of Canada’s neighbourhoods and communities have historically been regarded as safe and secure. Recent violent events in several cities have caused some Canadians to wonder if that vivid lustre has finally worn off.

Gabriel Magalhaes was fatally stabbed at the Keele Street subway station in Toronto on March 25. The 16-year-old had reportedly been out that evening with some friends, and was waiting to go home. Toronto Police have said this senseless attack was completely unprovoked.

Some good news …

WARMINGTON: Sometimes it’s the armed carjacker who gets jacked

Oh, to be a fly on the wall at the Brampton gas station, where one of these armed car thieves got a giant taste of his own medicine.

It’s not often a carjacker gets jacked themselves. It happened Sunday morning.

Senseless violence has become increasingly common in the nation’s capital

Afew weeks before Easter, a staffer for Republican senator Rand Paul was randomly and brutally attacked in downtown Washington, DC. The staffer, Phillip Todd, was leaving dinner with his friend when an assailant stabbed him four times in the abdomen, skull, brain and lungs. He suffered a punctured lung and potential brain bleeding. Todd was rushed to hospital, where he was operated on and ultimately survived the attack. 

Ripped from the Headlines … ‘Targeted’ shooting leaves funeral-goer dead, 3 injured after service for murder victim

A federal judge has denied Elizabeth Holmes’s latest attempt to stay out of prison, ruling that she must begin serving her more than 11-year sentence on April 27.

The Theranos founder had argued she should be allowed to remain free while she appeals her fraud convictions for misleading investors in her now-defunct blood-testing startup.

Two minors have been arrested in connection with a shocking triple homicide in Florida that left a trio of teens dead in a rural area of the state last week, police announced Friday.

An emotional Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods said the victims and their alleged killers were known to each other prior to the carnage — and the group had been taking part in burglaries before the violence exploded.

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio took the stand and testified in the federal trial of Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, founder of the hip hop band Fugees, and his alleged involvement in a money laundering scheme that included a huge — and illegal — donation to Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.

Woke Austin, Texas granted a key to the city to a radical defund the police protestor who doesn’t think anyone should be placed in jail — even murderers.

Despite the city setting a record for homicides in 2021 after dramatically cutting its police budget and 911 response times climbing to hours even for serious crimes, Chas Moore, head of the Austin Justice Coalition, believes police and prisons should be abolished.

Canada’s police chiefs are sounding the alarm over public safety.

In a letter obtained by Global News, the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police said it urgently needs to meet with premiers from across the country to look at how to protect Canadians, police officers, and combat a spike in guns, gangs, drugs, and violence.

HUNTER: Suspect in Vaughan murder’s astonishing record of violence

Alexander Mills-Smith did not survive the triggerman’s handiwork. Dead at 22.

That was in Vaughan. Later, cops twigged to two gunshot victims in Toronto and determined they were at the scene of the 905 gunplay. They were luckier than Mills-Smith that early morning of March 9.