Crime

U.S., Canadian authorities announce new arrests in efforts to prosecute fugitive Ryan Wedding

U.S. and Canadian authorities announced new arrests, indictments and sanctions on Wednesday in their continuing efforts to locate, arrest and prosecute Canadian ex-Olympic snowboarder turned fugitive Ryan Wedding, who allegedly leads a transnational crime network.

Appearing at a joint news conference in Washington, D.C., with Canadian authorities, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said authorities have worked closely with international partners. Ms. Bondi unsealed a new indictment outlining new charges, including murder and witness tampering, against more of Mr. Wedding’s alleged associates and increased the reward for information leading to Mr. Wedding’s arrest from $10-million to $15-million.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Crime, USA

The Naufrage of Belgium Is a Wake-Up Call for Europe

There are moments when a nation seems to drift, slowly and imperceptibly, into breakdown. Like Mike Campbell in Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises, Belgium has done it “gradually, then suddenly.” The country, once the heart of Europe’s industrial miracle and the quiet administrative seat of the EU, is in big trouble. If Brussels once wished to become the Eurocrats’ Rome, an imperial capital of the new, boring, technocratic imperium that is the Union, the country has, instead, faced a storm of genuinely Gibbonian decay. In Belgium, one senses a fatigue that is deeper than political scandal or economic stagnation. It is the fatigue of a state that no longer quite believes it can govern itself.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBelgium, Camp Of The Saints, Crime

America’s Crime Divide Is Racial, Regional, and Ruthless – The whitest states sleep soundly. The ‘diverse’ ones don’t sleep at all.

America’s crime map is not random. And it is not evenly distributed. It forms a pattern, a persistent outline that says more about the country than any campaign speech or census brochure ever could. When you trace the safest states in America, you trace a corridor of calm: New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont’s shadow, Idaho’s long sweep of farms and foothills. Places where the pace is steady and the population overwhelmingly white. When you trace the most dangerous states, the pattern changes just as sharply — a concentration of chaos in states marked by sprawling cities, fractured communities, and the kind of “diverse” demographic makeup polite society insists you never mention.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity Crime", Crime, USA

WARMINGTON: It doesn’t get any more despicable than stealing from the dead

It doesn’t get any lower and creepier than robbing graves.

This man and woman accused of doing this 300 times in Halton, Hamilton, Niagara and Toronto found a way to make it even more gross, disturbing and evil, according to police. This story is 18-karat crazy in which the accused couple are alleged to have removed jewelry from bodies resting inside GTA mausoleums.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

HEATHER KLEIN: The dangerous rebranding of pedophiles as “minor attracted persons”

A recent shift in how the language around child sexual abuse is being framed has come to my attention, and it is deeply disturbing. The word “pedophile” is slowly being replaced in some academic and therapeutic settings with the term MAP, meaning minor-attracted person. At first glance, it might seem harmless or even compassionate. The idea is that someone can experience an attraction without acting on it, and therefore, reducing stigma might encourage them to seek help.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime, WTF?

Police say about 75 people commit an inordinate amount of crime in Calgary. Who are they?

It’s a statistic floated around by high-ranking police officers and Calgary’s new mayor — a relatively small number of people committing a whole lot of crime.

Ahead of a Calgary police downtown safety blitz Nov. 5, Supt. Scott Boyd said the police have a “high system user group that’s roughly around 75 individuals … [who] do a disproportionate amount of crime on any given day throughout Calgary.”

During his campaign, then-mayoral candidate Jeromy Farkas used a slightly different number, pledging in his platform to “strengthen community policing with a crackdown on Calgary’s top 100 repeat violent offenders.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Hells Angels hitman complains Parole Board of Canada pays too much attention to victims

A Hells Angels hitman who killed a man in Nova Scotia can’t fathom why the Parole Board of Canada takes his victim’s family’s word over his when it comes to granting him freedom.

Dean Daniel Kelsie is serving a life sentence for the October 2000 shooting death of Sean Simmons in the lobby of a Dartmouth, N.S., apartment building. The court heard Simmons was killed for having had an affair with the wife of a member of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime, WTF?

Daughter of Barry and Honey Sherman speaks on their deaths ahead of 8th anniversary

Eight years after Barry and Honey Sherman were murdered, their daughter Alex Krawczyk is still holding out hope that justice will be served.

The Shermans were found dead from strangulation in the basement pool area of their home on Old Colony Road in Toronto’s North York neighbourhood on Dec. 15, 2017, and the case has remained unsolved.

“I’m encouraged, to a small degree, that the case is still active, that [the police] haven’t since said. ‘we can’t solve this,’” Krawczyk told CBC Radio’s Metro Morning earlier this week.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Toronto woman moving after home invasion, upset daughter who called 911 left on hold

Maryam Alavinasab sits at the dining room table in her two-storey home near York Mills Road and Leslie Street and cries, explaining she has barely slept in the past six days.

The mother of two daughters, aged 12 and 18, who moved to Canada from Iran seven years ago says she bought the home two years ago before gutting and re-designing it. The main floor bathroom, she says, even earned her a design award.

h/t patthedog

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime, WTF?

The truth about ‘UK-born’ criminals

The police want us to know one thing about Anthony Williams, the alleged LNER knife attacker. We can only speculate about his motives, his record or whether he was responsible for an earlier attack in the London Docklands. But one fact was broadcast almost immediately: he was British-born.

The police put out a statement soon after arresting him (along with a second man, who was released afterwards):

“A 32-year-old man, a black British national, and a 35-year-old man, a British national of Caribbean descent, were both arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Both were born in the UK.

OK, he was born in the UK. So were three of the four 7/7 bombers. So were the men who murdered Lee Rigby outside Woolwich Barracks. So were the Westminster Bridge and London Bridge stabbing attackers, the perpetrators of the Manchester Arena abomination and, of course, the Southport knife killer, Axel Rudakubana.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime, UK

Lunatic stabs female straphanger, 27, at Chicago train station

A 27-year-old woman was stabbed by a lunatic at a Chicago train station Saturday night — nearly three months after Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was murdered by a pocketknife-wielding madman on Charlotte’s light rail system.

The victim was sitting on a bench at the UIC-Halsted Blue Line platform near the University of Illinois Chicago around 11:14 p.m. when the alleged attacker plunged a knife into her chest, according to the Chicago Police Department.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime, WTF?

Fear, fraud and fake safeties — one worker’s nightmare inside Winnipeg’s trucking underworld

This is a follow-up to my previous investigation into organized crime in the trucking industry — a story that revealed how an undercurrent of labour exploitation and immigration abuse has taken hold of a vital piece of Manitoba’s economy. That story described the hidden networks that profit from human desperation, the corruption of safety systems, and a growing web of shell companies used to launder money and evade taxes.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

How an undercover Toronto cop secured a murder confession from an 18-year-old — over ‘chit chat’ about makeup, nails and boys

While talking about nails — by way of eye shadow, boys and her frustrating mother — Brianna Warner confessed to murder.

It was a huge get for Toronto police, one that was months in the making.

While the 18-year-old Warner had emerged as a person of interest in the December 2022 shooting of 20-year-old Jai Parker-Ford, investigators weren’t quite ready to charge her.

She seems all too common a monster.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", Crime, WTF?

U.S. Government Was Aware of Massive Chinese Fentanyl Seizure in Vancouver Long Before Ottawa Disclosure: Source

VANCOUVER — Border officers at Vancouver International Airport have intercepted more than half a tonne of cocaine and methamphetamine bound for Australia, a near record-breaking haul that underscores the deepening role of British Columbia as an export hub in global drug trafficking.

According to the Canada Border Services Agency, officers discovered 560 kilograms of narcotics concealed within a shipment of car parts during a September 3 inspection. The cache included 319 kilograms of cocaine packed into 300 compressed powder bricks and 241 kilograms of methamphetamine sealed in 110 vacuum-packed bundles.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Crime, USA