Archive for June 2020

B.C. man Farogh Sadat, 37, was shot dead near a bakery in the Corsa Italia neighbourhood last Friday. His life almost ended 5 1/2 years ago, when he came under fire outside his parents home in an attack that killed a companion. He did jail time for a 2014 kidnapping, in which one of his…

Four men burst into the London, Ont. home where Toronto man Bill Horace was sleeping early Sunday morning. Shortly afterwards, he was dead of a gunshot wound. African media reports say Horace was a general under convicted war criminal Charles Taylor.

Organized crime charges were laid against a veteran Toronto cop and 10 others in Toronto police crackdown on towing industry. It started as a look into how tow truck drivers ended up with encrypted Toronto police radios. The business has been hit with murders, arsons, assaults and massive fraud.

Local tow truck drivers are bumping shoulders with hard core bikers, mobsters and scammers in a rush for the fraud connected to the GTA industry. Dirty professionals also in the trough as police probe murders, arsons, drug deals and threats in ongoing tow truck wars.

Police have charged an alleged member of the Red Devils MC with taking a baseball bat to a man in the Outlaws Motorcycle Club in broad daylight near a mall in St. Catharines. There are roughly 100 Red Devils in the province and they’re not the same Red Devils who used to hang out on…

International police probe of mega-syndicate that allegedly supplies illegal synthetic drugs around the world leads to ex-Toronto man, Tse Chi Lop, dubbed “Asia’s El Chapo.”

A nice mention for Bad Blood on Netflix by John Doyle of The Globe and Mail (10 June 2020): “Finally, this column continues with a “stay-at-home-period daily-streaming pick.” Today’s pick is Bad Blood (Netflix). At two seasons, a handful of episodes a season, Bad Blood is a great Canadian mafia/crime drama… Gripping, richly textured and…

Expect to see more arrests soon in ongoing tow truck wars, where Mafia and bikers have to fight hard to maintain their market share. Fighting fuelled by insurance scams and honest insiders say things could be fixed, if there was political will.