A knife-wielding man who killed six people in a Sydney shopping centre before being shot dead has been identified by Australian police.
Joel Cauchi, 40, sent the crowded Westfield Bondi Junction complex into panic on Saturday when he began stabbing people with a long blade.
Five women and a man died. Several others, including a baby, were injured.
Authorities said the attack was most likely “related to the mental health of the individual involved”.
Live by the gun. Die by the gun.
Sadly, Ibrahim Abdikarim, known on the street as Jason GGG, is the latest example of just that.
As the Greater Toronto Area confronts an auto theft crisis, some residents are considering bold – or arguably radical – action.
Kamran Hussain, who moved to Canada from India on an international student visa in 2017 and has completed the arduous process of becoming a permanent resident, said he has thought about leaving the country after he woke up on the morning of Jan. 11 to find nothing but the shattered glass of his car window on his east Toronto driveway.
Truong My Lan, a Vietnamese property developer, was convicted of taking out $44 billion in “ghost loans” from the Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB) and was sentenced to death. She managed the feat over 11 years as the Communist country relaxed its strict controls on the economy.
Go big or stay at home they say.
Sam Bankman-Fried, facing the prospect of spending much of his adult life behind bars, on Thursday appealed his conviction and 25-year prison sentence for stealing $8 billion from customers of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange he founded.
Defense lawyer Marc Mukasey had announced plans for the appeal to the Manhattan-based 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals during Bankman-Fried’s March 28 sentencing hearing. The 32-year-old former billionaire crypto wunderkind was convicted in November on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy in what federal prosecutors have called one of the biggest financial frauds in US history.
Girl, 13, and boy, 16, charged in armed Brampton carjacking, 11-year-old girl also involved
Two youths aged 13 and 16 were arrested, and another 11-year-old girl was released from custody following an armed carjacking in Brampton that saw the victim stabbed and injured in a high school parking lot.
Peel Regional Police say the incident happened on Feb. 22, 2024. It’s alleged that four suspects lured the victim through social media to a high school near Kennedy Road and Queen Street.
h/t Mauser
Every time I click on YouTube, it seems like I get another Sandy Hook Promise gun control ad. I’m sympathetic to parents who have suffered the worst possible loss and want to feel like they can do something to redeem it. Without agreeing with them.
Why pretend we have a Bail system?
Two men wanted for machete attack in North York
Two unidentified men are sought for an assault last month in North York that involved a machete.
Toronto Police say the attack occurred near Jane St. and Sheppard Ave. W. around 12:30 a.m. on March 7.
There are fake stats everywhere—climate metrics, economy numbers, inflation rates, employment/unemployment… and what else?
Well, of course, crime.
Two-thirds of Canadians doubt the ability of police to recover stolen vehicles, according to a new poll from Nanos Research.
The survey found that 68 percent of Canadians lack confidence in law enforcement’s ability to deal with the increasing number of car thefts across the country. Only 29 percent said they had faith in police recovery efforts while 3 percent said they were unsure.
In the summer of 2022, police got a tip from Shoppers Drug Mart. Security at the pharmacy chain had spotted a pattern in a string of shoplifting incidents at suburban stores outside Toronto.
According to police, Shoppers reported that a group of thieves was repeatedly going into stores and picking out expensive items, like electric toothbrushes, vitamins and breast pumps. They scanned the items through a self-checkout kiosk so none of the staff got suspicious but didn’t actually complete the transaction, they just walked out with the merchandise.
Germany recorded a large rise in violent crime in 2023, the first year without pandemic restrictions, police statistics published Saturday showed.
Welt am Sonntag, which gained exclusive access to the data, said violent crime climbed 8.6%, to 214,099 cases — a 15-year high.
The newspaper said there was a nearly 7% increase in cases of dangerous and serious bodily harm, with 154,541 cases recorded — the highest number ever.
Cases of intentional simple bodily harm increased by 7.4% to 429,157.
It’s a real mystery apparently.
An employee who works at the site of one of the largest bank heists in Los Angeles history has suggested the Ocean’s Eleven-style break-in was an ‘inside job’.
The FBI and LAPD are still trying to piece together how burglars breached the roof of GardaWorld in Sylmar on Easter Sunday without triggering any alarms.
The mysterious crew gained access into the massive vault where they looted and escaped with around $30million, LAPD officials said.
Who doesn’t enjoy a good heist?
Nearly 600 stolen vehicles have been recovered from shipping containers in the Port of Montreal over the past few months as part of an interprovincial auto theft investigation, and 75 per cent of them were stolen in Ontario.
Speaking at a news conference Wednesday, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced the results of “Project Vector” – an operation to recover stolen vehicles that made it to the Port of Montreal and were intercepted before they could be illegally exported.
