06 March 2009

Another master criminal, finds out...

...that it really isn't like being in the movies...
One man is in custody and a second is still sought in the murder of a 22-year-old man found slumped behind the wheel of his luxury SUV last week in the city’s west end, a killing that may have been a drug rip-off.

Andre Gladstone Pierre, 20, of Toronto, was taken into custody early today and charged with second-degree murder. He is expected to make an appearance at the Finch courts this afternoon.

One man remains on the loose and it’s believed he may be armed with a handgun.
Despite all the fuzzy-bunny argle-bargle about the victim being a cement finisher... the cops are now saying this was a drug-ripoff gone bad.

And... another shocker... no word, yet again, from Mayor Miller's office on which gun club the shooters belonged to.

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RELATED: StatsCan - Tweaking the truth
-- VANCOUVER -- Mr. Castle said another thing the RCMP's figures include, but Statistics Canada's do not, is missing-persons cases in which there is strong evidence a murder has occurred.

"If a drug trafficker disappears but his leg is found, that's pretty much a gang homicide, but StatsCan won't score it," Mr. Castle said.

The RCMP's first homicide report, covering the years 1997-2007, was completed last June.
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LAST WORD: It's all about "their rights"...

...no... not the victims.
A jury now deciding whether Peter Johnson is the gunman who fatally shot an innocent bystander and wounded another man never knew the accused was once a co-leader of one of Toronto's most notorious gangs.

The 25-year-old man is allegedly the gunman shown on Club Whispers video who fired at a bouncer but missed, killing Jeffrey Lewis.

The jury was never told that Johnson -- nicknamed "P Dawg" -- and his brothers, Michael and Nadel, in 2005 led the Driftwood Crips gang, which terrorized the Jane-Finch area and trafficked in both drugs and guns.

The Johnson brothers were nicknamed "The Three Generals."
How is it, it's always the guys with the "street names"... who get all the societal coddling?

What happened to the rights of the people they preyed on?

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