Whether in Congressional hearings or in media “fact checks”, arguments against local cooperation with ICE are often accompanied by the claim that illegal immigrants have a lower crime rate compared to the general population (aside from immigration offenses). The claim itself is dubious — see the addendum below — but the more important point is how little it should matter when deciding whether to turn arrested suspects over to ICE.
AKWESASNE – A federal indictment unsealed in New Hampshire reads like a logistics manual for exploiting cartel-saturated borderlands.
But it is the northern border — the trilateral seam between Canadian, American, and Mohawk lands — and not notorious southern crossings like Laredo or San Diego, that is now drawing increased focus from United States weapons-trafficking agencies.
… According to Canada’s anti-money-laundering watchdog, FinTRAC, organized-crime groups based in India have been recruiting people living in Canada – often vulnerable young men from India on study permits – to launder the proceeds of extortion targeting Canada’s South Asian diaspora. The BCSC only has jurisdiction when the dirty money is linked to an investment fraud, according to Mr. Wu.
A young woman in New York City said she declined pressing charges against a violent suspect because she didn’t want to put ‘another black man in jail,’ weeks before he allegedly killed a 76-year-old retired teacher.
The 23-year-old woman anonymously detailed how she and a friend narrowly escaped Rhamell Burke, 32, after he allegedly attacked them while riding the subway on April 2.
The straphanger told the New York Post she now completely regrets her decision not to work with prosecutors after Burke was charged with murder on Friday for allegedly shoving 76-year-old Ross Falzone down a flight of stairs to his death at a subway station Thursday night.
Rhamell Burke…
2/2 assault
2/4 released by Judge McCormick2/14 burglary
2/25 released by Judge Johnson2/26 drugs and knife
3/1 released by Judge Brown3/2 assault
5/8 released by Bellevue Hospital5/9 KILLED Ross Falzone
Judges must be held accountable or it won’t stop! pic.twitter.com/o4J0X90Ay9
— C3 (@C_3C_3) May 11, 2026
Conestoga College handed out pay raises with no justification, awarded contracts to higher bidders without explanation, allowed an executive to take part in recruiting their daughter into a management position, and had such poor oversight of procurements and purchase orders that one for $11,000 was recorded at $126 billion — and no one noticed.
These are among the damning details contained in a recent, confidential two-part audit of the Kitchener-area college that rates the school as “high” risk, according to executive summaries obtained by the Star.
The foreign student program was pure gangsterism made for Conestoga.
A recently announced federal law enforcement agency dedicated to investigating financial crimes will take years to set up, and to be effective, the Ottawa-headquartered force will need to have a presence in places like B.C., say policing experts.
The new Financial Crimes Agency will be allowed to create offices outside of its head office, under legislation introduced at the end of April, but it’s unclear if that will happen.
The new agency is meant to investigate things like cross-border money laundering, a hot-button issue in B.C. in the past decade and the subject of several government reports and inquiries.
“You can’t investigate this stuff from a distance,” said Peter German, the author of two B.C. government reports on money laundering and a former deputy commissioner of the RCMP.
Three Men Charged With Attempted Smuggling Of 89 Firearms
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, Assistant Director in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), James C. Barnacle, Jr., and Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF”), Bryan DiGirolamo, announced today the arrest of MALIK BROMFIELD, FAIZAN ALI, and KAMAL SALMAN, who are charged with multiple offenses relating to the transporting of 89 firearms, including at least 17 that were reported stolen, and attempting to smuggle those firearms to Canada. BROMFIELD, ALI, and SALMAN were presented before U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith C. McCarthy in White Plains federal court, and detained.
FBI New York, @SDNYnews, @nyspolice, and @ATFNewYork announced the arrests of Malik Bromfield, Faizan Ali, and Kamal Salman, who are charged with attempting to smuggle nearly 90 firearms from the United States to Canada.
"These three defendants, including two foreign nationals,… pic.twitter.com/UQCunh4RgS
— FBI New York (@NewYorkFBI) May 8, 2026
Bromfield and Salman are Canadian.
h/t Patti Jo & Mauser
An appeal court in Alberta has nearly doubled the sentence for a man who cut off a woman’s finger and then forced her to eat her own severed digit, saying in a ruling that the original judge downplayed the victim’s suffering and terror.
Stephen Ralph Potts was convicted of aggravated assault after inviting an Indigenous woman to his home in the northern community of Chateh and attacking her in April 2024.
Court heard during trial that Potts, who is also Indigenous, punched the woman repeatedly in the face without warning or provocation, breaking bones. He then ordered her to splay out her fingers, saying he was going to cut off her finger.
Still seems light to me.
Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged suicide note was finally revealed — and the convicted pedophile appears to claim investigators “found nothing” on him.
“They investigated for month — found nothing!!!” read the barely legible note, released by a New York court order Wednesday in response to a New York Times petition.
Arrests made in Guelph human trafficking investigation
Guelph police have arrested and charged two men from Toronto as part of an ongoing human trafficking investigation.
According to police, the suspects were to have engaged in the trafficking and sexual exploitation of two youths from Guelph.
h/t Patti Jo
An alleged drug trafficker accused of obtaining confidential information from a Toronto police officer, which investigators say was used in an unsuccessful conspiracy to kill a senior corrections officer, was back in custody Tuesday morning after his bail was revoked.
The Crown asked for a Superior Court review of the decision to release Brian Da Costa on a $1.5 million bail in early March. Justice Rita Maxwell ordered his detention and vacated the lower court’s decision, which saw Da Costa released under house arrest supervised by three sureties.
The denial, “with prejudice,” by Judge Lewis Kaplan of a request for a new trial by the imprisoned crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried is yet another setback for the man who once bestrode American financial and political life like a colossus.Bankman-Fried is fighting for his freedom from behind bars at a federal prison in California after his conviction on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy. He contends that new witnesses have emerged whose testimony could make a difference to the question of his guilt.
Becky Hamber, 46, Brandy Cooney, 44, had pleaded not guilty to charges involving boys in their care
It seems no one dared upset the twisted lesbians.
This fall’s Ontario municipal elections are shaping up as the most compelling in years, thanks to stark left-right battles.
Much of the conversation has centred around Toronto, where Councillor Brad Bradford is challenging NDP stalwart Olivia Chow over what he says is a city in quick decline. But TVO’s Steve Paikin has declared that Hamilton, Ontario’s fifth biggest city, may have the province’s best race.
LOS ANGELES — A judge in Los Angeles has named two co-defendants alongside Ryan Wedding — the former Canadian Olympic snowboarder charged with leading a Sinaloa Cartel-linked cocaine trafficking and federal witness murder conspiracy — while pushing the proposed trial date to December 1, 2026, finding that the prosecution is so extraordinary in scale and complexity that it falls outside the bounds of normal federal trial preparation requirements.
