Archive for June 2021

Police say 59 vehicles illegally towed and/ or seized. That’s latest chapter in ongoing saga of GTA tow truck criminality, that includes murder, arson and corruption allegations.

The Wolfpack, my new book with Luis Najera, can be pre-ordered here from Chapters at a 30% discount until Sunday, July 4:

A drug networking was using transport trucks with secret, X-ray proof compartments, to funnel massive amounts of illegal drugs north from Mexico. The gang was multi-ethnic and operated coast-to-coast, police say as they announced what they call the largest illegal drug bust in Toronto police history.

Was Carmine Lapello murdered a century ago in Toronto for informing on top bootleggers, Rocco Perri and Bessie Starkman? An ancestor mines archives for answers in dusty cold case.

Giuseppe (Pino) Ursino, 68, loses appeal after parole denied in his 11 1/2 year prison term on cocaine conspiracy conviction. The Bradford grandfather claims to be confused about COVID-19 testing and misunderstood by the courts. Court heard he was a senior ‘Ndrangheta boss in the GTA.

Borja Vilalta-Castellanos of Mississauga was arrested in 2014 and convicted for being a maanager of Sinaloa cartel operations in southern Ontario. He has been granted full parole.