Driven by fake credit applications and identity theft, automotive fraud has surged 54 percent from a year ago, a report from Equifax Canada has found.
“That kind of increase really indicates there’s a specific targeted attack to that sector,” said Carl Davies, head of fraud and identity at Equifax Canada, in an interview.
Caroline Ellison was sentenced to 24 months in prison by a federal judge for her role in the FTX collapse, despite helping prosecutors in the conviction of Sam Bankman-Fried, her former boss and boyfriend.
US District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Tuesday imposed the two-year sentence on the 29-year-old, calling Ellison’s cooperation “remarkable” and praising her testimony during the fraud trial. But Kaplan noted that the case was one of the “most serious” financial frauds ever committed and that her cooperation can’t be a “get out of jail free card.”
The 11 Billion is just for show.
When a justice of the peace grants an accused bail, it’s no guarantee he or she will remain free, pending the outcome of their case.
Sarah Badshaw found this out on Monday.
The good news for the alleged Porsche thief is she was granted bail in a Brampton courtroom Monday.
Violent crime is surging in some of Canada’s major cities, with sexual assault rates showing the largest increase over the short and long term, according to a new report.
Sexual assault cases climbed in eight of nine major cities over the past seven years, with Ottawa being the exception to the trend, according to a study by the Macdonald Laurier Institute (MLI). The incidence of sexual assault has risen since 2016 in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, Peel, Ont., and York, Ont., with the last nearly doubling from 2016 to 2023.
Despite millions in federal spending aimed at curbing gun and gang violence, Canadians report a significant rise in gang-related crime, with many personally affected by it, according to new research by the Department of Public Safety.
“One in five Canadians report they or someone close to them has been affected by gang-related violence,” stated the report Guns And Gangs Awareness Campaign. Additionally, 70% of respondents agreed that Canada has a growing gang violence problem.
York Regional Police say 16 people, who were all out on release orders, are facing more than 1,500 charges between them in connection with several retail thefts at the LCBO and Home Depot.
Police said over a nine-month-long investigation between October 2023 and July 2024, Project Spartan found several suspects “who were believed to be involved in large-scale organized retail theft” across the region and the Greater Toronto Area.
OTTAWA — Sexual assaults and robberies are up in Canada’s major cities, according to a new report.
The Macdonald Laurier Institute’s Urban Violent Crime Report sheds new light on the state of Canada’s increasingly unsafe streets, including an alarming rise in the incidence of urban sex crimes.
Sounds like we have a huge mystery on our hands! Is there some link? Some commonality? Authorities are stumped!
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The first teenager to be sentenced in the death of a Toronto homeless man will not face further time in custody and instead participate in a community-based program.
The girl, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was 13 at the time of the December 2022 attack on Kenneth Lee, was credited for 15 months of effective pre-trial custody and will serve another 15 months of probation under an Intensive Support and Supervision Program, which is designed as an alternative to custody for young people who have been diagnosed with mental health disorders.
h/t Mauser
Once an issue hits the suburbs, federal politicians tend to start paying attention—or at least they should if they have a long-term interest in staying elected. Suburbs are not only often swing ridings, but full of families, high-earning professionals, and seniors who are known to turn out to polls.
The trouble for politicians often is, by the time a historically urban crisis creeps into the suburbs, it’s festered so long, it’s now a systemic failure. This is the case with Canada’s suburban crime surge.
The cost of housing an inmate in a federal prison reached $428 per day last year, according to Statistics Canada, though actual expenses are significantly higher when factoring in additional costs such as equipment and staff pensions.
Blacklock’s Reporter says StatsCan’s data on Operating Expenditures For Adult Correctional Services revealed that the annual cost per inmate in federal penitentiaries amounted to $156,220.
Juan Salcedo was fed up with the endless stunt driving outside his front door. Day and night, young men took over the intersection in front of his house and did doughnuts, sometimes for hours on end. At around five in the morning, Salcedo, a bearded, middle-aged homeowner, walked outside and confronted the drivers, asking them to cut it out. One of them pulled a gun on him and said, “This is Oakland. Go back inside.”
Wild Video from Oakland California sideshow street Takeover last night
(@ppv_tahoe) Video footage was filmed on the 100 block of 10th street overnight.#oakland #sideshow #california
_okpatrick pic.twitter.com/Nc6laXxTEB— PPV_TAHOE (@ppv_tahoe) May 6, 2023
Halton Regional Police say they have disrupted a group believed to be responsible for the theft of at least 40 vehicles in Halton Region and the Greater Toronto Area worth over $3 million.
The vehicles were stolen from the GTA and were destined to be shipped overseas, police say.
The investigation started in May after a stolen Toyota Tundra from Hamilton was recovered in a residential area in Burlington.
We just attract the very best of immigrants!
More than 1,700 prisoners are being released early today. By the end of October, prisons in England and Wales are expected to let out as many as 5,500 offenders prematurely, after they have served just 40 per cent of their sentences.
The threat this prisoner release poses to the public is not in any doubt. Martin Jones, the chief inspector of probation, says it is a ‘certainty’ that many of those let out will reoffend. He expects ‘a third’ to commit further crimes. Many will be back in jail within ‘days or weeks’ for breaching their terms.
She is still frighteningly clueless.
Even now, even after watching and rewatching the horrific video of her part in the senseless swarming attack on Kenneth Lee, where she’s enthusiastically hitting, punching and stomping on the vulnerable man — practically doing everything but actually delivering the fatal knife wound — the pig-tailed teen still has no remorse.
Monsters walk among us.
He internalized the