Crime

On trial for second-degree murder, the Regent Park rapper known as Big Rax is telling the jury that he was afraid for his life.

In fact, he said “I was scared for my life” at least half a dozen times.

Looks like he’s getting his life together.

VANCOUVER — In a milestone that is staggering for its rarity in a jurisdiction regarded as a global nexus of Chinese transnational money laundering that facilitates fentanyl trafficking for Mexican and Iranian gangs, British Columbia’s anti-gang unit has finally secured its first money laundering sentencing in a decade.

The daughter of slain billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman has purchased the vacant lot in North York that held the house where her parents were murdered. A group of neighbours are concerned it will become a memorial park.

A spokesperson for Sherman daughter Alexandra Krawczyk said no decision has been made on what to do with the half-acre lot.

“It is (Krawczyk’s) desire to work collaboratively with neighbours on Old Colony Road to do something with the property that will be respectful of her parents’ legacy and be in keeping with the neighbourhood,” says a spokesperson for Krawczyk.

There were 188 break-and-enters in Mississauga and Brampton over the last 31 days.

According to Peel Regional Police data, incidents occurred from Oct. 23 to Nov. 23.

Both cities saw their fair share of crimes related to break-ins, with 117 of the incidents happening in Mississauga and the other 71 in Brampton.

h/t Mauser

Another one of fugitive Ryan Wedding’s former accomplices has turned against him, CBC News has learned.

Records filed in Ontario Superior Court reveal the FBI secured the help of a new informant this year who had “trafficked drugs with Wedding and assisted Wedding with committing multiple murders.”

Ten people were arrested this week as part of an FBI investigation into an alleged drug trafficking organization that Wedding is said to head. He remains at large.

In the parking lot of an east-end Toronto apartment building, a detective in plain clothes and a bullet-proof vest empties a bag of potential evidence he and other officers seized moments before from a main-floor unit.

Wrapped in plastic bags are hammers, a replica handgun, a diamond ring in a Peoples Jewellers box, a balaclava, jewelry display boxes and pieces of broken glass police believe could have come from jewelry display cases smashed during a series of 11 robberies and attempted robberies in June and early July.

“It’s disturbing that it seems every time we make an arrest or an occurrence happens, another one seems to follow it,” said Det. Sgt. Ryan Boulay, who leads York Regional Police’s (YRP) holdup unit. York Region is an area north of Toronto that includes Richmond Hill and Markham.

The usual yutes who will only face charges as “minors” are being recruited.

Day 7, coworker called in so I was ALONE and an hour before my shift ended A GROUP OF 12 YEAR OLDS ROBBED THE JEWELRY STORE NEXT TO ME?!? they took my statement and video… I’m so done https://t.co/Tlj9UMfnjQ pic.twitter.com/mRqTZLF3UC

— Tristan Sacrey (@TristanSacrey) November 19, 2025

A network of seemingly legitimate professionals in Canada and abroad are accused of keeping a billion-dollar drug cartel afloat under the violent leadership of former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding.

While Wedding is named as the improbable mastermind behind a vast cocaine empire — compared by the FBI to history’s most notorious drug lords Pablo Escobar and El Chapo Guzman — nine other people were also alleged by the U.S. government to form a “network of enablers” who stop him choking on a mountain of hard-to-use dirty money.

When Brittani Russell contacted Langley RCMP last year about a crime blogger posting veiled threats against her, she expected it would get taken seriously.

Instead, the officer who came to her home last December suggested she just ignore the posts on the Dirty Newz’s website and social media accounts, Russell said Thursday.

Since learning this week that the site’s founder allegedly conspired with an international crime group to get a witness killed in Colombia, she realizes how at risk she was.

The seized blog is The Dirty Newz portions of which are still available via the Wayback Machine.

The son of billionaire murder victims Barry and Honey Sherman has gone to court to remove his fellow trustees from control of part of his late parents’ estate, citing “breach of trust.”

In documents filed in Superior Court, Jonathon Sherman seeks to remove the two other trustees from control of a multimillion-dollar trust set up by his late father in 2016, the year before he was murdered. Jonathon states that his reasons are “grounded in alleged breach of trust, breach of fiduciary duty and failure to act in the best interests of the beneficiaries.”

High-profile Brampton defence lawyer Deepak Paradkar has been arrested after being charged with helping a massive illegal drug organization murder witnesses, enlist corrupt lawyers and streamline drug routes.

Paradkar, who’s nicknamed “Napoleon” by GTA colleagues for his tough courtroom tactics, was charged Tuesday with plotting murders with fugitive drug kingpin Ryan Wedding, who’s accused of running a billion-dollar-a-year drug enterprise.

There’s no doubt Jeffrey Epstein thought he was a very, very smart guy. “He always thought he was the smartest person in the room,” said one associate. Another said Epstein “thought he was smarter than the next guy.” When in 2008 Epstein pleaded guilty to procurement of a minor for prostitution, his defense asked for leniency based on his “unique intellect.”