It would probably be fair to describe Anthony Oliveira as a ticking time bomb.
The volatile Durham Region man is now being hunted for the vicious stabbing death of Ashkan Pournasir-Roudbane, 36, of Toronto.
Crime
CRIME SHOWDOWN: Fed-up cities (not Toronto) cracking down
Summers in the big cities of North America have traditionally been sweat-soaked bloodbaths – particularly among the young.
Hot weather, booze, youthful exuberance and white-hot tempers contribute to busy days for the coroner.
Chicago, London and Montreal are all trying to enact measures aimed at tempering summer crime waves.
Toronto? Not so much.
Ford’s Folly
Doug Ford says masked suspects tried to steal a car out of his driveway
“4 thugs come racing down my street, masks on, ready to take the car out of the driveway. Surprise surprise two police cars are there. The chase is on” pic.twitter.com/SnFL0RnkD4
— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) June 17, 2025
He is getting hammered in the comments. h/t all who sent this in.
Doug Ford credits his OPP detail for foiling ‘stupid’ car thieves in his driveway
A gang of “stupid criminals” got more than they bargained for when they allegedly tried to steal a car from Premier Doug Ford’s Etobicoke driveway.
Ford’s OPP security detail, which guards him around the clock, pounced when masked men attempted to snatch a family vehicle early Tuesday morning.
“Do you want to hear about stupid criminals? You’ve ever seen that show about stupid criminals out there?” Ford told reporters at transit station construction site hours after the incident.
WARMINGTON: TPS chasing stolen Rolls-Royce and suspect jumping from Gardiner not movie
That was not a Gone in 60 Seconds movie being filmed in Toronto overnight.
But with a pursuit on the Don Valley Parkway and an alleged car robber jumping from the Gardiner Expressway to try to get away, it sure looked like it.
#BREAKING: Carjacking Suspect Injured After He Jumped 40 Feet To The Ground On TheGardiner Express. Toronto Police Located The Stolen Vehicle In Connection To The Armed Carjacking, Suspects Fled On Foot, Jumper Transported To Hospital. pic.twitter.com/LJJ0j0m4jM
— 401_da_sarpanch (@401_da_sarpanch) June 17, 2025
Also in TO: Rats are your neighbors.
Rats spotted at a restaurant in Toronto pic.twitter.com/qxx8bPFHci
— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) June 11, 2025
Help The Murderer Of An Innocent Bystander? No Jail For You In Toronto!
A Toronto judge has sentenced a former harm-reduction worker to two years less a day of community supervision for helping a man involved in a daylight shootout that killed a bystander and sealed the fate of a now-closed Leslieville safe-injection site.
Karolina Huebner-Makurat, 44, was walking to lunch with a friend on July 7, 2023, when alleged drug dealers exchanged bullets outside the South Riverdale Community Health Centre on a busy Queen Street East.
Last December, Khalila Mohammed, 25, pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to manslaughter, admitting she aided Ahmed Ibrahim by treating his wounds, hiding his clothing and helping him leave the scene and then lying to police about him.
Canada’s world junior trial saw juries tossed, intense testimony. Here’s a recap
Five members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team will wait weeks until their fate in their high-profile sexual assault trial is determined.
Michael McLeod, Alex Formenton, Carter Hart, Dillon Dube and Callan Foote have been on trial since late April inside a London, Ont., courtroom – accused of engaging in non-consensual group sex with a then-20-year-old woman in June 2018.
All five men pleaded not guilty to sexual assault when the trial began on April 22; McLeod also pleaded not guilty to an additional charge of being a party to the offence of sexual assault.
Mafia charges paint surprising picture of who killed whom in power struggles
The charges filed in Thursday’s roundup of significant organized crime figures on Thursday suggest past ties mean nothing during underworld power struggles.
The charge that stands out the most is one that accuses alleged Montreal Mafia leaders Leonardo Rizzuto, 56, and Stefano Sollecito, 57, of the first-degree murder of Lorenzo LoPresti, a man who was killed at his condo in the St-Laurent borough on Oct. 24, 2011.
Toronto police turn to AI tool to investigate the murders of Barry and Honey Sherman
The Toronto police homicide unit has recently turned to an off-the-shelf program with AI capabilities to try and solve the double murder of billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman.
More than seven years into the investigation, with dozens of people still considered “persons of interest,” the lone detective working the case says he got the idea last month after attending a seminar at police headquarters by the Toronto police intelligence unit.
Is the UK getting more lawless? We examined the crime data
Only 52 per cent of British people believe the police are doing a good job, down from 70 per cent in 2019, a poll has found
Perhaps the most heated rows before Wednesday’s spending review have concerned the future of policing.
After weeks of negotiating, Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, agreed to a real-terms increase to police budgets over the next three years — but has stopped short of stumping up further cash.
Why does this matter? Because without extra money, ministers argue, Labour’s ambitious law and order pledges will be unachievable.
Ontario police bust alleged dark-web trafficking network that used Canada Post to ship drugs
Ontario Provincial Police say they’ve dismantled a drug ring that allegedly used the dark web and Canada Post to ship drugs across the country.
At a news conference on Tuesday, police announced they seized more than $2.5 million worth of drugs destined to be shipped to “marketplace” buyers in British Columbia, Nunavut, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island.
For some, it’s #MeToo vs. #HimToo at the Hockey Canada sexual assault trial
Outside the London, Ont., courthouse where five former world junior hockey players are on trial on sexual assault charges, supporters of the complainant — carrying signs reading, “I believe you E.M.” and “We Believe Survivors” — have been confronted by #HimToo movement backers with signs of their own: “5 careers ruined” and “E.M. cheated.”
‘I had 30 Lamborghinis’: Pablo Escobar’s top cocaine pilot gives first interview
A man who eventually became Pablo Escobar’s go-to cocaine pilot has revealed that he first turned down an employment offer from the notorious Colombian drug lord because he was content with the $4m a month he was earning while flying for a competitor.
But, in a new podcast containing what is believed to be his first interview since authorities arrested him at his Florida mansion in 1988, Tirso “TJ” Dominguez recounted how he changed his mind about working for Escobar when the so-called Patron – or boss – offered him a salary that was five times higher: $20m monthly.
“I had 30 Lamborghinis, and I dressed well,” Dominguez says of his ensuing lifestyle during the eight-part documentary podcast titled Cocaine Air, a copy of which was provided to the Guardian. “They brought me the car that matched the shirt that I decided to wear that day.”
HUNTER: Almost all accused in Ontario online child luring sweep released
“A country, a movement, a person that does not value its youth and children doesn’t deserve its future.” — Oliver Tambo
And Canada is just such a place if recent developments in the nation’s courtrooms are any indication.
Canadian cities are becoming more lawless than the U.S.
Despite Canada’s reputation as a safer version of the U.S., newly compiled data is showing that crime has worsened to the point where, on some metrics, Canadian cities are becoming more lawless than the U.S.
Americans are still getting shot and murdered at higher rates than Canadians, but when it comes to theft, carjackings and break-ins, figures show that some Canadian cities are doing worse than their American counterparts.