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$50Gs reward in 2022 Toronto murder makes wanted man’s world ‘a little bit smaller’

A reward of up to $50,000 is being offered leading to the arrest of a man wanted in a fatal shooting near Sheppard subway station last spring.

Toronto Police, Bolo and Crime Stoppers representatives say they’re renewing efforts to catch Kiarash Parzham, 30, of Richmond Hill, who is accused of first-degree murder in the June 15, 2022 death of Kian Hoseyni, 28, of Toronto.

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Black GTA man will not go to jail in self-defence killing of ‘racist’ attacker

A young Black Ajax man who shot and killed a “racist” white Kingston man in a case of self-defence will not spend time in jail after pleading guilty to a firearms charge.

Vaughan Oscar Roberts, 21, initially faced a second-degree murder charge, which was formally withdrawn along with other charges Tuesday at the conclusion of a Kingston trial and sentencing hearing that included expert evidence about the impacts of anti-Black racism.

Drug dealer + illegal gun = Get out of jail free card.

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Wild video captures rowdy NYC ‘wolfpack’ trashing Chinese restaurant

Shocking video footage captures the moment a young mob violently trashed a Chinese restaurant in Queens over the weekend, overturning tables and breaking chairs as terrified staff and customers helplessly looked on.

The heinous hooligans left Fish Village in College Point in shambles Saturday, according to a video posted on Twitter by community activist Yiatin Chu.

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Disgraced ex-lawyer Alex Murdaugh sentenced to life in prison

Disgraced former lawyer Alex Murdaugh has been sentenced to life in prison, a day after being convicted of murdering his wife and son.

Judge Clifton Newman gave Murdaugh two life sentences at a hearing in Walterboro, South Carolina. They will be served consecutively.

Mr Newman called the case “one of the most troubling” he had seen.

Murdaugh spoke briefly in court twice, to maintain his innocence.

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Soros funded St. Louis prosecutor Kim Gardner scorched online after execution-style shooting of homeless man

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner was torched online after a video went viral showing a suspect fatally shoot a homeless man execution-style in broad daylight in the Missouri city.

Several social media users noted Gardner’s campaign was funded by George Soros, blaming the prosecutor for what they described as a sad state of rampant crime and violence.

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Alex Murdaugh convicted for murdering wife Maggie and son Paul

Disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh was found guilty of the grisly 2021 murders of his wife and son Thursday evening at Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro.

As the jury reconvened at 7 p.m. local time —after just three hours of deliberations —Murdaugh sat ashen-faced in the stand. The foreman announced they had reached a unanimous verdict, which they passed to judge Clifton Newman.

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The new age of the con man

In 2023, the hustlers are everywhere

In the precarious world economy of 2023, everyone is selling you something — and much of that something doesn’t amount to anything. Companies, of course, sell you products and services; much of their junk amounts to solutions for problems that didn’t previously exist, though at least there’s still some sort of deliverable. Meanwhile, in worlds as essential to human flourishing as personal finance and bodily fitness, an ever-expanding class of so-called “influencers” are selling a whole lot of nothing dressed up as something. Their underlying success, ostensibly tied to their ability to help people become richer or fitter, depends in actuality on their ability to sell advice or investment opportunities that are likely only to enrich themselves.

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Idaho murders update: More Bryan Kohberger documents released in Pennsylvania, knife, phone, masks seized

A Pennsylvania court has unsealed additional documents in the Idaho student murders case, revealing that police seized a knife during a raid on the suspect’s parents’ home in Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania State Police and the FBI arrested suspect Bryan Kohberger at his parents’ house in the Pocono Mountains on Dec. 30 during a nighttime tactical raid.

They searched the home, his car, the garage and a shed on the property.

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Violent British Criminals Let off the Hook With Apology

A record number of criminals, including robbers and sex offenders, are being let off with an apology, government figures show. This offers a stark contrast to the tough rhetoric espoused every election time by the governing Conservative Party.

Ahead of his election as prime minister, Rishi Sunak promised a “major crime crackdown” to tackle rising fears of criminality among the British public. Two years before this, Boris Johnson, like other Tory and Labour leaders who preceded him, also vowed to “come down hard on crime” by “coming down hard on criminals.” But data from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has revealed that more criminals than ever are avoiding punishment—even so much as a criminal record—simply by apologising for their wrongdoing.

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‘Far from justice’: why are nearly half of US murders going unsolved?

Every night since May, two-year-old Nylah Cheese has slept with a crocheted doll wearing a white tee, black pants and a silver chain. The toddler’s aunt, Silvia Lopez, had the figurine made in the likeness of Nylah’s father, Brandon Cheese, who was shot and killed at a park in San Francisco the month before.

“She instantly knew it was him and screamed, ‘It’s Dada!’” Lopez, Brandon Cheese’s older sister, said. The toddler has since named it “Dada doll”.

Since Cheese’s killing, Lopez and her family have been working to ensure Nylah knows who her father was and how much he loved her. But for the past 10 months they’ve also been searching for answers about who killed Cheese and why.

San Francisco police have yet to make any arrests.

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FTX’s ex-engineering director agrees to plead guilty to US criminal charges

Nishad Singh, the former director of engineering at now bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has agreed to plead guilty to US criminal charges, his lawyer said in court on Tuesday, as US prosecutors ramp up their investigation into members of Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle.

Bankman-Fried, FTX’s founder, was charged in December with eight counts of fraud and conspiracy. Prosecutors say he stole billions in FTX customer deposits to plug losses at his hedge fund Alameda Research, and lied to investors and lenders about his companies’ financial condition.

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Alex Murdaugh trial: Power, privilege, murder and the downfall of a dynasty

In the fifth week of his murder trial, Alex Murdaugh took the stand.

Over nearly 10 hours testifying in his own defence, the crowded courtroom in Walterboro, South Carolina, would see two versions of Mr Murdaugh. One seemed tired, his voice lilting and thin. His clothes hung loose; months in prison had whittled down his formerly heavy frame. He rocked back and forth, shook his head from side to side, and wept.

The other seemed much more like the man that other witnesses had described – savvy and charming, once a formidable player in the state’s clubby legal circuit. This Mr Murdaugh addressed the jury directly, was relaxed and in control.

“What a tangled web we weave,” he told them.

This was one creepy family with a new rumour that the sons beat a local boy to death for fun.

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Toronto Police Chief stands by promotion of officer who killed two Black men in the 1990s

Toronto’s police chief is standing by the decision to appoint an officer cleared after killing two black men and accused in court of beating a third in the 1990s, even as a city councillor is asking questions about the hiring decision.

In answers to questions from CTV News Toronto at an unrelated press conference, Chief Myron Demkiw said Supt. Rick Shank was investigated decades ago by police watchdogs.

Based on the most wanted list ya gotta admit the odds favour one outcome over others.

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