DURHAM – Police have initiated a special probe into the shooting of a 24-year old man outside a business premise in downtown Oshawa early last Wednesday as he attempted to resist arrest. The captured man, Shawn Jonathon Alves, of no fixed address, is currently in hospital where he is being treated for injuries. He faces [...]
TORONTO – Linda Hegg, 56, of Newark, Delaware, who was reported missing last September, was safely reunited yesterday with her family in the United States. Hegg entered Canada by bus and walked into a downtown Toronto shelter to seek assistance on September 5. She had no identification and could only remember her first name as [...]
TORONTO – Detectives have appealed to the public for help in arresting three women suspected of conning elderly Chinese women into giving them a bagful of money and jewelry in exchange for a spurious blessing to protect their families from harm. According to the police investigation, three women of Chinese origin, aged between 42 and [...]
TORONTO –Police last week smashed a $4 million clandestine, marihuana grow operation in an industrial /commercial complex, in the Dufferin /Dupont Street area. The grow operation contained 4,000 soil- based plants grown in serious fire hazardous conditions. Toronto Hydro ordered that the haphazard electrical service to the entire premises be disconnected in order to remove [...]
LONDON, Ontario – A 45-year-old man was arrested this week after a woman complained that he had sourced the internet for her personal details without her knowledge while impersonating a police officer on a dating website. According to the woman, the suspect, Perry Lambert of St. Thomas, had posed as a London Police constable, and [...]
TORONTO – Police arrested a second suspect this week in connection with an investigation into the sale-for-profit of a trailer loads large-scale number of stolen items allegedly donated to the Salvation Army. In a search of a commercial warehouse in Brampton on Wednesday detectives seized an additional 26 skids including toys, school supplies, cleaning products [...]
TORONTO – Police today arrested a 36-year-old man suspected of operating a fraudulent modeling and acting agency, after 15 people sued him for compensation for having failed to deliver acting roles promised to them after their auditions. The suspect, Saroor Hassan Zaidi, 36, of Mississauga, alias Mike Hertz, Mike Hertzberg, Uzi Goldstein and Uzi Xaidi, [...]
TORONTO – Police yesterday arrested Mauro Granados?Arana, aged 23, in connection with the homicide of 20-year-old Jamahl Franklin in a shooting at a New Year’s eve house party at Hupfield Trail on January 1st this year. Granados?Aranam, who is in police custody on an unrelated matter, was charged in the Eglinton Avenue East court on [...]
LONDON – The prestigious Ontario Medal for Police Bravery this year was awarded last week to police officers Erik Blouin and Kari Suutari of the Marine Unit for their rescue in June of a distressed sailboat and its two-man crew from drowning in the stormy waters on Lake Ontario. The medals were awarded to the [...]
DURHAM – One man died and a second was seriously injured Saturday morning when their vehicle got out of control on the Colonel Sam Drive, rotated and crashed into a tree were it exploded into flames trapping the two men inside. The dead man, Robert Jones,22, of Taunton Road West in Oshawa, was a passenger [...]
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