Once a week, as predictably as death or taxes, the collector makes his rounds.
He drives to GTA restaurants, coffee shops and businesses, handing out winnings and collecting from losers.
The collector generally travels alone, but it would be dangerous to attack and rob him. He’s acting on behalf of frightening people in the Hells Angels and the Mafia.
If the losers balk at paying, they likely have a small window to reconsider, says a retired GTA-area organized crime cop whom the Star is not naming because he is not authorized to speak on behalf of the RCMP about his investigations into the Toronto collector, and others like him.
