A GTA tow truck operator has denied all responsibility after Peter Petrov Simov, a 19-year-old security guard and aspiring pilot, wasshot to death with illegal handgun. The tow truck operator’s also facing unrelated criminal charges related to towing industry.

Two Ontario Provincial Police officers – including an inspector – have been charged with towing industry corruption offenses. That makes a half dozen facing criminal charges in the GTA and the multiple investigators aren’t over.

Project Sindicato was hailed as the biggest anti-Mafia probe in York Region history. Now, it has been tossed out of court amidst allegations police illegally monitored suspects with their lawyers.

William McIntryre was part of a small, elite police unit called The Sultans who worked undercover against outlaw bikeers. And then someone put a bullet between his eyes.

Mafia boss Vincenzo Macri, 56, has had his 20-year Italian prison sentence cut by five years. His trial heard that he declined to call off thee 2014 mob killing of Carmine Verduci in Woodbridge in 2014.

Harry Lainas, a South Simcoe Hells Angel, was shot dead on the Danforth area of Toronto. It’s natural to wonder what, if anything, illegal gambling had to do with the murder.

Who’s to blame for fatal shooting of 19-year-old guard for tow truck firm? The boss who supplied him with the handgun? The gun smuggler?

Criminals routinely dropping contraband on Collins Bay Penitentiary in Kingston. Marijuana, cell phones, smart watches, knives all airlifted in to inmates.

Charles Gagner, who murdered boxer Eddie Melo and his friend Johnny Pavao for $50,000, was turned down in bid to have unescorted day passes in the GTA, where much of his victims’ families live. Gagne earlier told the board that he has given up on organized crime and wants to be a homebody instead.

Podcast with Raju Mudhar of This Matters podcast at The Toronto Star about ongoing tow truck wars, in which at least four people killed in last two years, plus lots of arsons and shootings.