-- Jerry Tong, Zekun Wang, Fei Han and Feiyang Ji, accused in a London, Ont., explosives and firearms-manufacturing investigation now face 19 new charges, according to court documents filed Tuesday. The newest charges include possession of five specific explosive substances, possession of stolen property and access to computer data related to making firearms." --
-- "Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport will install Islamic foot wash stations inside bathrooms at the facility, according to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. The installation of the Wudu ablution stations is expected to be complete by the end of the year." --Gotta have priorities I guess...
-- "A Texas high school teacher was reduced to tears and broke down in front of his class when he realized the seniors he was teaching couldn’t complete a writing exercise." --
-- "The suspect was arrested and the firearm has been recovered. Bloor Street is currently closed in both directions between Sherbourne and Parliament streets. The investigation is ongoing, police say." --
A second suspect involved is still outstanding. No description was made available.
That's catch & release Toronto... yet again.
UPDATE: Those gosh-darned undocumented firearms owners...
-- "The 27-year-old suspect, who has not yet been publicly identified, was out on 'bail conditions' at the time of the incident and was wanted for firearm-related offences in Peel Region and Waterloo." --Meanwhile... down the road in Hamilton.
-- "Ontario Provincial Police have charged 43-year-old Ha Van Thang and 38-year-old Van Trieu Ngo and seized more than $1.5 million worth of cannabis from an illegal operation in Brampton." --And...
-- "Toronto man Anwar Yosofi, 36, is facing charges after police say officers observed him dealing drugs near Morningside and Lawrence avenues in Scarborough on Monday." --
-- "With many of the remaining migrants being forced to live in makeshift accommodations on Ceuta’s beaches, Sánchez said that people are afraid to go down to the beaches, saying: 'They are occupied, they are full of huts, people are eating there, throwing food, it’s full of clothes, of excrement, of cigarettes.'" --
-- "Police are searching for a man who allegedly followed a female into a washroom in a restaurant at Queen Street and Jameson Avenue in Toronto’s west end and sexually assaulted her." --And...
-- "Halton Police say they have identified more incidents involving 36-year-old Dishanth Srideva who is accused of recording women changing inside fitting rooms at Winners at 2460 Winston Churchill Blvd." --
-- "The New York Police Department will not provide a security detail to Mayor Zohran Mamdani's wife Rama Duwaji, during her upcoming vacation to two terror hotspots in the Middle East, despite the mayor's office claiming otherwise." --NOTA BENE...
-- "Syria and Lebanon are BOTH on the State Department's "Do Not Travel" list due to terrorism concerns." --Who exactly is Mamdani's 'partner in Muslim socialism' planning to meet up with?
-- "Before anything gets built the land has to be cleared, the ground has to be prepared, and the footings have to be right. EP1 covers everything that happened before the container arrived: clearing black wattle from a neglected patch of farm, digging six footings by hand, mixing and pouring concrete, and laying the foundation blocks that a 3.5+ tonne steel box would eventually sit on." --
-- "New documents show that more than 300,000 acres of land could be transferred to Vancouver Island First Nations, which are currently finalizing treaties. Approximately 30 parcels of Crown land would be given to five First Nations, which are located from Parksville to Victoria." --Nota bene...
-- "'There was no requirement to renegotiate the Douglas Treaties, so I think this was a political decision,' lawyer Geoffrey Moyse said." --
-- "Niagara Police Homicide detectives say they have now identified the remains of Brenda Marie Leblanc found during the demolition of a house in Niagara Falls, Ont., in 2023. Leblanc, who was last seen in the mid-1990s, lived in Niagara Falls and St. Catharines and was originally from New Brunswick." --Better late than never...
-- "Texas mom Maria Narez, now 48, accused of killing her 3-year-old daughter by throwing her against a wall has been busted in Mexico after nearly 30 years on the run." --
-- "An 18-year-old man, Jayon Burgher, tied to a ‘gun-for-hire’ network that is suspected to be behind several shooting incidents across the Greater Toronto Area has been charged in two attempted bank robberies in Niagara Region earlier this year. NRPS confirmed that Burgher is also facing numerous charges in Toronto and Halton Region." --
-- "Toulouse Mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc said two police officers were injured in a knife attack in the French city on Monday. CNews reported that the attacker shouted 'Allahu Akbar' during the assault. The attack comes nearly two weeks after a man was arrested in Paris for attacking three women with kitchen knives." --
-- "Halifax Police on Tuesday charged Ali Assakereh, 54, with making a bomb threat against the local U.S. Consulate, the latest security incident involving an American diplomatic post in Canada after two shootings at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto this year." --Nota bene...
-- Assakereh was expected to appear in court via a video link, with the assistance of an Arabic interpreter." --And, no... he wasn't kidding...
-- "A propane tank and several containers believed to contain flammable liquid could be seen inside the vehicle, prompting police to call in their explosive disposal unit and evacuate a large part of the downtown." --
-- "According to a report from the local El Pueblo de Ceuta newspaper, the University Hospital of Ceuta treated at least five girls under the age of 14 years old after they were raped." --Meanwhile... back at the ranch...
-- "Toronto man has Premarine Persaud, 34, has been charged after assaulting a Toronto Police Parking Enforcement Officer in North York on Sunday." --
-- "Toronto Police are investigating what they believe was a targeted shooting outside a townhouse complex on Danzig Street in Scarborough early Tuesday morning." --When you don't want to say 'Community Housing'...
-- "A wild shootout in a crowd of 200 people – a crowd that included small children – remains one of the worst nights of gun violence Toronto has ever seen at a housing complex near Morningside Avenue and Danzig Street on July 16, 2012." --
Almost 15 years later, Danzig is still Gangbanger Central.
Once again... no gun... no problem...
-- "Police have not released details on what led to the stabbing, whether a suspect is in custody, or if the victims are known to each other. No information on the exact ages of the teens has been confirmed." --
-- "Vaughan man Wesam Moshi, 37, has been charged in connection with a drug trafficking investigation in Vaughan and surrounding areas beginning in February. York Regional Police Investigators seized a quantity of substances with an approximate street value of more than $300,000, as well as a large amount of Canadian currency." --No gun... no problem...
-- "A 32-year-old Brampton man, Gregory Darling, has been arrested and charged after another man was stabbed “multiple” times earlier this month in Mississauga." --Time to kill the Young Offenders Act.
-- "'Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the 2nd dose, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester,' added the then-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director." --
-- "In addition to previously leading the elite IRGC paramilitary, Mohsen Rezaei, 71, is wanted on an international arrest warrant for his role in one of the deadliest antisemitic attacks of recent decades, the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1994." --
-- "In a news release issued Monday, police confirmed that Chris Perreira, 23, of Barrie, who was previously charged in relation to a shooting at a residence near Clubhouse Road and Pine Valley Drive in Vaughan is now also facing charges in the synagogue shootings." --
-- "Oshawa man Carter William Boyce, 28, is facing charges after he allegedly intentionally struck a pedestrian with his vehicle, leaving him with critical injuries. ‘At this time, this appears to be an isolated incident as both the accused and victim are known to each other,’ police said in a news release." --That's right, buh... no gun... no problem.
-- "One person was rushed to hospital with non-life threatening injuries after a stabbing inside a Scarborough apartment building near Kingston Road and Lawrence Avenue on Monday morning. A suspect was arrested at the scene." --
No gun... no problem...
Police have identified 21-year-old Zenin Roussel as the man murdered over the weekend outside a pool hall in downtown Hamilton.
And what about those gosh-darned Saskatchewan men?
-- “Asheville Police Chief Jackie Stepp declined to classify the violence as gang-related, when reporters pressed her about whether the people involved belonged to rival gangs or families. ‘These are two groups of individuals. The groups had ties because the people involved knew one another and had committed ‘ongoing retaliatory acts’ against each other.’” --
Sorry, Chief... if you're not measuring, you're not managing.
IF IT ONLY SAVES ONE LIFE...
-- "The operation has led to the arrests of 35 homicide suspects and more than 100 known gang members, along with more than 3,200 narcotics arrests, nearly 2,000 illegal guns seized, and 25 missing children located and returned home." --
-- "Toronto Police are searching for a 26-year-old Muhammad Yasin accused of assault by choking, two counts of assault, and two counts of failure to comply with a release order." --And then, there's this freak...
-- "Devon Plooard, 21, of Toronto is wanted after sexually assaulting a woman and recording it. Plooard also pulled out a firearm and pointed it at the victim, police allege." --
-- "Tajae-J’nye Samuel-Maragh, 23, and Kingslee Ivan Christie, 29, have been arrested after a gunpoint robbery that led to a police chase and attempted carjacking at Bathurst and Richmond streets in downtown Toronto. Police seized two loaded firearms." --
-- "Several people were wounded on Sunday in a shooting in Holbaek, about 70 kilometres west of Copenhagen. Police said in a statement they believed that the incident was linked to a 'settling of scores' within criminal networks. It is initially unclear how many people had been injured or how severe the injuries were." --I dunno... I miss civilisation.
-- "Duane 'Keffe D' Davis the gangbanger who allegedly ordered the murder of Tupac Shakur undermined his own defense in a braggadocious phone call to his mistress." --
-- "CBC News cannot verify the race of the 12 jurors selected for the trial, but at the time, the Boushie family said they were angered that Indigenous-looking jury candidates were challenged and excluded by Stanley's defence team." --TWO WORDS THE CBC DOESN'T MENTION... HOME INVASION...
-- "All five aboriginals were consuming alcohol. Later, they got a flat tire and drove onto a farm 15 kilometres northeast of Stanley’s farm, where at least one person tried to steal a truck."
Translation: They were shitface drunk. They stopped at two previous farms and attempted to steal vehicles. They broke the stock on their rifle attempting to smash a truck window." --THIRD WORD... ARMED...
"A .22-calibre rifle barrel with a bullet in the chamber was found next to Boushie’s body, and that an empty box of .22-calibre cartridges, as well as 17 live rounds and 11 spent casings compatible with the rifle, were found inside the SUV."
Translation: These folks were armed and dangerous. The rifle had been previously fired out the window of the vehicle... at what, nobody apparently knows or admits to.
-- "Hamilton Police officers say a 21-year-old man has died in a hospital after he was stabbed and found by a taxi driver early Sunday. The victim was involved in an altercation Saturday evening near Paradise Road North and King Street West less than a kilometre away from where he was found." --UPDATE: Hamilton turns to innovative self-service policing model...
Living in a world of make-believe...-- "Det. Staff Sgt. Lisa Chambers announced… ‘Those people know that they were involved,’ encouraging them to ‘do the right thing and to turn themselves in.’" --
-- "'We’ve upped the security, but not because we think there is a concern … we’re just going to go the extra mile, so it’s very safe to come here,' said Howard Litchman, a spokesperson for the festival." --
