Crime

A 54-year-old single mother caught crossing the U.S.-Canada border with 25 firearms hidden in the gas tank of her rental vehicle was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday.

Following a tearful apology to family and friends, Rima Mansour was led out of a downtown Toronto courtroom in handcuffs after Superior Court Justice Maureen Forestell said she was imposing the “significant” penalty intended to deter others from what she described as “an exceptionally serious offence.”

Time off for diversity I bet.

Sirhan Sirhan, who assassinated presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy in 1968, is asking a judge to free him from prison by reversing a decision by the California governor to deny him parole.

Sirhan shot Kennedy in 1968 at the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles, moments after the US senator from New York claimed victory in California’s pivotal Democratic presidential primary. He wounded five others during the shooting.

Many retailers are emptying their shelves across the country, but not because of low stock. A concerning increase in thefts has pushed companies to put more products under lock and key, the Wall Street Journal reports.

At one Best Buy store in the suburbs of Houston, where hundreds of items like Bose speakers and Fitbit activity trackers used to sit on the shelves, shoppers will instead find small blue signs that read, “This product kept in secured location.”

Kill are be killed.”

That’s what a spray-painted graffiti message reads on a metal wall a stone’s throw from the 1500 block of Government Street near downtown Baton Rouge. It’s a double testament — both to the scandalously dangerous character of that particular speck of earth along one of the city’s main thoroughfares and to the scandalously dangerous deficiency of the public schools in East Baton Rouge Parish.

Myles Sanderson had racked up quite a criminal record in his three decades on the planet — 59 convictions in all.

And yet, time and time again, Sanderson was given chance after chance after chance.

More sweat lodges and basketball courts is the only answer.

The man police say killed a Toronto police officer and a Milton mechanic in a multi-city shooting rampage Monday was in 2007 placed on a national “flagging system” for being a “high-risk” to re-offend following a conviction on two counts of robbery and carrying a concealed weapon, police said Thursday.

In an update on their sprawling, multi-jurisdiction investigation, Peel Regional Police provided greater detail about Monday’s shootings in Mississauga and Milton —which killed Toronto police Const. Andrew Hong and Milton auto mechanic Shakeel Ashraf — and about the gunman, 40-year-old Sean Petrie.

It was the first time many Ontarians had received an emergency alert on their phones notifying them of an “active shooter.”

The notification, sent at 4:25 p.m. on Monday, said that Peel Regional Police were investigating the situation and a suspect was “armed and dangerous” and in a stolen vehicle. “If seen, do not approach,” it added. What the alert did not include was the location or model of the suspect’s car; a link attached to the message didn’t seem to be working for many residents.

BOSTON (AP) — Federal officials are examining whether the employee who reported an explosion at Northeastern University may have lied to investigators and staged the incident, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.

Investigators identified inconsistencies in the employee’s statement and became skeptical because his injuries did not match wounds typically consistent with an explosion, said one official.

The officials could not discuss details of the investigation publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

The suspected gunman who killed two, including a Toronto police officer, and injured three others, had a lengthy criminal history, according to parole records obtained by Global News.

A Parole Board of Canada decision from 2010 stated that Sean Petrie had previous convictions for violent crimes like robbery and illegally possessing guns, and also suggested he had alleged gang connections.

Mob rule has become the law of the land, according to the results of the George Floyd hearing.

Said Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. of the Atlanta jury that convicted Leo Frank of murdering a 13-year-old female employee in 1913, “Mob law does not become due process of law by securing the assent of a terrified jury.” Frank was Jewish. The jurors were not necessarily anti-Semitic, but they had good reason to be terrified of the mobs that were. After Georgia Gov. John Slaton commuted Frank’s sentence from death to life imprisonment, the mobs stormed the prison, abducted Frank, and hanged him. Slaton and his wife were forced to leave the state.

ROSTHERN, Sask.—The manhunt ended in the grass beside Highway 11, where two RCMP vehicles forced mass murder suspect Myles Sanderson’s stolen white Chevy Avalanche off the road.

His capture and subsequent death in custody on Wednesday was the end of four days on the run for the 32-year-old resident of James Smith Cree Nation, but he was accustomed to life as a fugitive.