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.

Michael Costa of Bolton was only slightly injured on Monday in an attack that killed his father in their family home. Costa survived another attack by a would-be hitman in November.

Interview on organized crime in GTA towing industry with Kelly Cutara of Global 640 Radio after shooting, arson and charges against police over the past week.

The Ontario Provincial Police has shuffled its leadership in the wake of charges against veteran officers related to the tow truck industry. Meanwhile, two tow trucks fired upon early Thursday morning on Highway 401.

There were two shootings on Highway 401 early in morning of January 21, 2021. Here’s an interview with CTV.

Ontario provincial police officers charged with taking bribes – including sexual ones – in investigation into bloody tow truck war, which has seen at least four murders over past two years. Investigation ongoing. Police earlier said four organized crime groups fighting for stare of kickbacks that come from tow truck business and that, when there…

It was fun to do this Toronto Star podcast on crime and the pandemic with Robert Benzie of The Star’s Queen’s Park bureau and podcast guru Raju Mudhar.