Well, that didn’t take very long.
Within hours of high-risk offender Medhani Yohans being sprung from the Maplehurst Correctional Complex, he was back behind bars.
h/t Patti Jo
“Diversity Crime”
Boy, 15, wanted for double murder in deadly Stoney Creek shootout
A 15-year-old boy is now wanted for the murders of two teenagers killed in a shootout last week in Stoney Creek – possibly while they were retaliating to a bear spray incident from hours earlier.
Indian man who’d been studying in Canada sentenced in connection to multimillion-dollar fraud scheme targeting seniors
An Indian man who came to Canada on a student visa has been sentenced to prison in the U.S. for his involvement in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme targeting seniors, American officials say.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin said in a press release Wednesday that a federal judge sentenced 22-year-old Roshan Shah to 48 months in prison for conspiring to commit money laundering.
Usual suspect linked to Toronto police corruption probe has global drug-trafficking ties, court documents say
A Toronto man investigated for potential involvement in a murder plot targeting a senior jail officer — and facing extradition to the U.S. on drug conspiracy charges linked to alleged cocaine kingpin Ryan Wedding — has far-reaching criminal ties and is believed to have killed people, according to the RCMP.
Newly unsealed court documents provide fresh insight into the purported underworld connections of Gurpreet Singh, an accused cocaine smuggler whose name also appears in files stemming from a high-profile Toronto police corruption probe.
Man accused of murdering Etobicoke woman was awaiting trial for alleged intimate-partner assault against her
A man charged with first-degree murder in the Friday shooting of a Toronto woman was awaiting trial for an alleged intimate-partner assault against her last year.
Sharnjeet Singh, 37, of Brampton, is accused of fatally shooting Navneet Kaur, 26, in north Etobicoke on Friday.
According to court documents obtained by the Star, Singh was arrested on July 17, 2025, for allegedly assaulting and harassing Kaur by repeatedly following her from place to place.
They publish her photo but not his.
Ismail Abrahimzada drove through a playground packed with children at Ajax park
A 23-year-old man from Aurora has been charged after allegedly driving through a playground and walking paths that were packed with children at a park in Ajax earlier this month.
Durham Regional Police said a call came in shortly before 6:30 p.m. on July 18 for a white Toyota sedan that was driving dangerously through Rotary Park on Lake Driveway West.
“The suspect vehicle drove through the playground, splash pad, and walking paths, which were filled with pedestrians, including young children,” police allege in a news release on Monday.
h/t Patti Jo
Most Suspects in 2026 Killings of Irish Women Were Foreign-Born
Official information on murders in Ireland so far this year indicates that, were it not for foreigners living in Ireland, the murder rate—at least of women—would be astronomically lower.
h/t Kiki9
The RCMP Said ‘No Appetite’ in 2019. Now Ontario Police Describe Cartel Brokers Inside Canada’s Trucking Industry — at the Center of a $139 Million Bust
TORONTO — In the first days of June, Ontario’s highest court quietly affirmed the release of Deepak Paradkar, a Toronto-area criminal lawyer accused by United States prosecutors of serving as a senior operative inside Ryan Wedding’s billion-dollar drug organization — the man who, the indictment alleges, introduced the former Canadian Olympian to the “trusted couriers” who carried cartel cocaine and methamphetamine into Canada through the arteries of the commercial trucking industry.
The math of Canada’s immigration enforcement no longer works—and organized crime knows it
When U.S. prosecutors unsealed indictments against 37 people tied to India-based crime syndicates earlier this month, they exposed a distinctly Canadian vulnerability: nearly every accused Bishnoi gang foot soldier arrested here entered from Punjab on a study or temporary work permit—many, the indictments allege, obtained with fraudulent information. As Hub senior correspondent Graeme Gordon reported, the years-long Operation Hard Ball investigation traces how Canada’s immigration system became a recruitment pipeline for transnational organized crime—one running through what criminologist Kelly Sundberg calls “a broken, and in places effectively non-existent, security screening process.”
HUNTER: Cross-border dope smuggling bust ignores elephant in room
No one was talking about the elephant parked in the corner of the room. If they were, it was in the most hushed of tones.
A murmur could get one cancelled, so better to keep quiet, even when cops should be taking a bow for shattering a cross-border dope smuggling ring and seizing an eye-popping $139 million in drugs.
But then, there is that elephant.
Among the firearms seized by the Ontario Provincial Police from the organized crime group during Project Bay was a Lahti L-39 Anti-Tank rifle. https://t.co/jxgowz7941 pic.twitter.com/zFfbUncoCn
— Toronto Crime Watch (@CrimewatchTO) July 23, 2026
h/t Mauser
Suspect sought after youth sexually assaulted on TTC bus: police
Toronto police are working to identify a suspect who allegedly sexually assaulted a young person on board a TTC bus last week.
According to police, the incident happened in the area of Victoria Park and Danforth avenues at around 4 p.m. on July 16.
Police allege that a youth boarded a TTC bus at Victoria Park Subway Station and sat in the first row behind the driver.
Two Doctors with alleged ties to MS-13 charged with human trafficking in the Greater Toronto Area: police
Two men allegedly associated with the notorious criminal organization MS-13 are facing charges after police say they trafficked and sexually exploited a victim throughout the Greater Toronto Area.
In November 2025, police launched Project Mermaid after one of the suspects—who was serving a “lengthy sentence” at a Kingston, Ont., prison at the time—used an unauthorized cellphone to communicate with the victim and his co-accused.
“Investigators allege the two men used intimidation, manipulation, and threats of violence to control the (female) victim while financially benefiting from her exploitation,” police said in a news release issued Wednesday.
Prime suspect in brutal murder of Punjabi pop star hiding in Canada?
There were suspicions and problems with the Calgary contractor courting Punjabi pop star Yashinder Kaur.
For starters, the 29-year-old Indian woman discovered that her long-distance lover of five years had a wife and children in Canada. At one point, family members told CBC News there had been embryonic marriage plans between Kaur and 37-year-old Sukhwinder Singh Brar.
Community processes shock, debates future of Salsa on St. Clair after deadly shooting
In the minutes after gunfire broke out at a Toronto street festival last week, a young woman was seen walking unsteadily toward an ambulance, her outstretched arms held by a paramedic. Her white dress was streaked with blood.
She had been among the revellers at the Salsa on St. Clair festival, a summer weekend party that for years has featured hundreds of people dancing together in the street. In an instant, that evening was shattered by gunfire that left two men dead, the young woman and four others wounded and the city of Toronto shaken.
For those who were there it will remain a seminal shooting until the next one.
But face it reckless public shootings by the usual suspects are common as dirt in Toronto.
If you’re a smart Torontonian you have learned to avoid formerly safe public events where the mass shooting set are likely to be in attendance.
This is the real diversity.
Rapist who beat Calgary woman into coma should spend 10 years in prison: Crown
A Calgary man who beat a woman unconscious and then raped her created “a scene of stark horror” for his victim and will spend between seven and 10 years in prison.
A sentencing hearing took place Thursday for Kepra Udup Bang, who was convicted earlier this year of aggravated sexual assault on a woman in July 2019.
“Calgary Man”
And … Man arrested for multiple firearms charges after asking police for change in North York