Satnampal Chawla the man at centre of biggest Shoppers Drug Mart takedown ever handed conditional sentence — and likely won’t serve jail time

The man at the centre of a multimillion-dollar crime ring that stole items from Shoppers Drug Mart and resold them on Amazon won’t serve any jail time, as long as he follows a list of court-appointed rules.

Satnampal Chawla pleaded guilty to trafficking stolen property, after Halton Police orchestrated the biggest police takedown ever at Shoppers Drug Mart, dismantling an organization that had been stealing from 148 locations across Ontario in 2022.

… Chawla also forfeited nearly $2 million in cash and property that had been seized in police raids, Virk said last week. “He is extremely remorseful.”

h/t MP

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Trump is now urged to release the Jeffrey Epstein files after order to declassify ‘everything’ on JFK

Donald Trump is being urged to release the Jeffrey Epstein files a day after he signed an executive order divulging all files related to John F. Kennedy’s murder.

Tennessee Republicans Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Rep. Tim Burchett revealed to DailyMail.com they are pushing to have evidence on the nefarious financier unveiled.

The senator has been advocating for the sealed Epstein documents to be released for years, an effort Burchett joined early on.

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HUNTER: Why was killer who shot U.S. Border Patrol agent so close to Canada?

American law enforcement officials are different from their Canadian counterparts.

Names of accused killers are only rarely withheld, which makes the tragic shooting death on Monday of U.S. Border Patrol agent David “Chris” Maland just 32 km from the Canadian border all the more a mystery.

The feds have yet to release the triggerman’s name.

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Just the cost of doing business? Hundreds of B.C. criminals hit with repeat civil forfeiture lawsuits

On an unseasonably hot September day in 2023, a Surrey police officer spotted Daniel Cluett on an electric standup scooter, helmetless and allegedly riding into oncoming traffic.

RCMP officers caught up with him outside the Lookout Shelter on 135A Avenue, where they alleged he was hanging with “other individuals in front of a No Loitering sign.”

They ran his name in a police database and learned that “he was the suspect in a file from the night before where a firearm was pointed at an individual and had extensive drug and weapon possession files.”

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Toronto to stop cracking down on illegal cannabis dispensaries

Toronto’s bylaw officers will no longer crack down on cannabis stores that are operating illegally.

The head of Toronto’s licensing department, Carleton Grant, made it clear during Wednesday’s budget committee meeting that due to the lack of funding and dangers of dealing with criminal activity surrounding these storefronts, bylaw officers are “no longer effective” in stifling these shops from running.

In 2018, the city received just shy of $9 million in provincial funding, through the Ontario Cannabis Legalization implementation Fund (OCLIF), to crack down on dispensaries selling products to customers without a licence. In 2024, that funding ran out.


Welcome to Chowtown where criminals rule.

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Noise cameras needed to crack down on late-night revving and racing in Toronto streets, advocates say

Ingrid Buday, founder of the group No More Noise Toronto, says her launch into pro-quiet activism came during the pandemic, when the emptier-than-normal streets near her west-end home started to sound like a nightly drag race.

The whine of racing motorcycles and the growl of illegally modified mufflers, echoing off nearby underpasses, left her so sleep-deprived she was unable to return to her job in IT as COVID-19 restrictions were lifted.

Good.

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Passenger who grabbed wheel of taxi and hit transport charged: OPP

A 45-year-old man is charged after video posted online shows a passenger grabbing the wheel of a vehicle and hitting a transport.

… Police, who did not release his name, said he was in custody pending a bail hearing in Oshawa court Friday morning.

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Emerald Haze: How a Health Canada-Licensed Cannabis Firm Linked Politicians, Lawyers, and Convicted Narcos to US Fraud Prosecutions

In October 2020, British Columbia police raided three agricultural properties, targeting Health Canada–regulated marijuana grow operations in Richmond—a once blue-collar farming community that, since the 1990s, has rapidly transformed into a hotbed of transnational narcotics trafficking and money laundering linked to China, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Thousands of U.S. and Canadian records reviewed by The Bureau reveal that Delta Police’s “Big Smoke” raids barely scratched the surface of a corporate structure unfurling from a façade of Hells Angels paraphernalia and Health Canada weed licenses. The investigation suggests an unsettling reality: in modern-day Canada, the boundary between legitimate commerce and organized crime is perilously hazy—especially when political and legal elites, alongside a national regulator, appear complicit.

Everything got worse under Trudeau.

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Suspect in wild Toronto cop car crash has 75 criminal convictions: ‘Beyond frustrated’

The man accused of ramming numerous Toronto Police cruisers near Moss Park on Thursday night has dozens of criminal convictions and was out on bail for auto theft at the time of his arrest.

Police say the suspect, behind the wheel of stolen white Hummer, slammed into police vehicles on George St. between Queen St. E. and Richmond St. E. just before 10:15 p.m.

The man, who the Sun has learned is 32 years old, has 75 criminal convictions against him.

If I didn’t know better I would suggest an unspoken cultural component may be a factor.

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Legal arguments to begin for 4 girls accused in death of homeless Toronto man

TORONTO — Lawyers are set to begin legal arguments today for four girls scheduled to face trial this year over their alleged role in a deadly group attack on a homeless man in Toronto.

The teens are part of a group police allege swarmed and stabbed Kenneth Lee, a 59-year-old man who was living in the city’s shelter system, in December 2022.

Eight girls between the ages of 13 and 16 were arrested in the hours after Lee’s death.

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In the UK And The US, Racial Subgroups Refuse To Address The Criminals Among Them

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last week (or just living in the UK), you know about the sudden earthquake of activity surrounding the Asian Grooming Gangs (Rape Rings) that have been operating in Britain for more than 25 years. Everyone is referring to them as Asian, but that’s a disservice to 47 out of 48 of the countries in Asia because most of these “Asian” rapists are from just one country, Pakistan. In America, we, too, have a group of people disproportionately responsible for crime: blacks.

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