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Police appreciation thread?
a lot of people seem to bash the police these days...and I've read about people complaining about all the unsolved crime in the GTA...so I thought it might be good to give some recognition where they seem to have done a pretty good job on several long term investigations:
This is all from the Toronto Star IN THE LAST 7 DAYS ALONE:
| quote: | Youth nabbed in 5-month-old concrete case
Jun. 13, 2006. 04:03 PM
CURTIS RUSH
STAFF REPORTER THESTAR.COM
A 14-year-old Oshawa boy is facing charges after a woman driving on Highway 401 was seriously hurt when a chunk of concrete was hurled from an overpass onto her car almost five months ago.
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The investigation was conducted by Caledon OPP crime unit detectives along with OPP Toronto detachment detectives and assisted by detectives from Durham Regional Police Service. |
| quote: | Two west-end gangs at centre of Creba slaying
Police stage elaborate takedowns as 17 others taken into custody on a variety of firearms, drug charges
Jun. 13, 2006. 04:01 PM
JOSEPH HALL
STAFF REPORTER
Early morning police raids have netted eight suspects in the wanton Boxing Day killing of 15-year-old Jane Creba, a murder that sent shock waves across the GTA and brought the bloody gunplay that marred Toronto at record rates last year to the city’s front door.
Almost six months after the young star athlete was gunned down near Yonge and Dundas Sts. on Dec. 26, Toronto police finally pounced, culminating an investigation that preoccupied the force and enlisted more than 20 full-time investigators.
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| quote: | Arrest of murder suspect nets drugs, guns
May 21, 2006. 01:00 AM
Six handguns and more than half a million dollars worth of cocaine were seized by Toronto police after the arrest of a man wanted for attempted murder.
On Friday at around 7 p.m., police on the hunt for a man wanted in connection with a March shooting spotted the suspect sitting in the passenger seat of a car parked in front of a drug store in the Dufferin St. and Lawrence Ave. area.
Police arrested the suspect without incident; a struggle ensued with the driver and he was subsequently arrested. The police seized a loaded .9 mm handgun and a stash of crack cocaine.
Later on, officers swooped in on a dwelling and found five handguns, a cache of bullets, 4.5 kilograms of cocaine and about $60,000 worth of marijuana.
Alberto Suman, 22, and Edwin Humberto Velasques, also 22, face weapons and drugs charges. Velasques also faces an attempted murder charge. |
| quote: | Guns rain down on officer during drug raid
Jun. 9, 2006. 01:00 AM
LINDA NGUYEN
STAFF REPORTER
Guns were falling from the sky during a major drug bust on Wednesday night, police say.
Toronto police Sgt. Don MacCallum of 22 Division said he was standing outside a building at Lawrence Ave. W. and Keele St. while officers stormed an apartment in the building.
The apartment was believed to be part of an alleged cocaine network.
The next thing he knew, guns were raining down from the balcony, landing next to where he was standing.
"Three guns were thrown off the balcony: a .45 calibre pistol, a .25 calibre pistol and a 9 mm pistol. They were all cocked and loaded."
Had any of the guns hit his head, MacCallum could have been seriously injured, he said.
"First, I giggled and then I had one of those moments of `Oh, damn!'"
MacCallum, who was in charge of the case, said a "herd of police officers" carried out the warrant because the suspects, who had been under investigation since last summer, were considered armed and dangerous.
Seven men and one woman are facing more than 70 weapons and drug-related charges. |
| quote: | Arrest in March nightclub shooting
Jun. 8, 2006. 10:41 AM
LINDA NGUYEN
STAFF REPORTER
A man has been arrested after a nightclub shooting in the city’s Entertainment District that happened more than two months ago.
Shots were fired at the Sound Emporium nightclub on Adelaide St. W. and Peter St. around 3:45 a.m. on March 26, sending the 700 club-goers inside running for the exit.
One of the club-goers felt something in his hand as he was running and realized that he had been shot.
The man made it to the front door but ended up collapsing onto the street.
The victim’s identity has been withheld.
Oneal Alexander Goulbourne, 20, of Toronto has been charged with a number of offences, including aggravated assault and using a firearm to commit an offence.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-5204 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS. |
| quote: | Mall shooting suspects arrested
Jun. 7, 2006. 10:38 PM
TAMARA CHERRY
STAFF REPORTER
Two men wanted in connection with a December shopping mall shooting have been arrested, police say.
On Dec. 22, a 22-year-old man was taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries after being shot at the Sheridan Mall on Weston Ave., west of Hwy. 400.
Two men now face a combined 14 firearm-related charges after being arrested Wednesday morning, police said.
Charged were Kevin Creary, 22, and Benjamin Brefo, 24, who appeared in court Wednesday afternoon. |
| quote: | Second murder charge laid
Man, 33, now accused of killing two area women
Niagara police continue to probe three other deaths
Jun. 6, 2006. 09:53 AM
NICK PRON
COURTS BUREAU
NIAGARA FALLS—Two of the five slayings of women who had "high-risk" lifestyles are linked, police say after charging a 33-year-old tradesman with a second murder.
Michael Durant, in custody after being charged earlier with the slaying of Cassey Joyce Cichocki, is now facing a first-degree murder charge in the 2003 death of Diane Christina Dimitri, Niagara Region police Deputy Chief Donna Moody told reporters yesterday.
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| quote: | Man charged in year-old murder
Jun. 6, 2006. 01:00 AM
Toronto police have charged a man with first-degree murder, nearly a year-and-a-half after the fatal shooting of Andrew Christie in his Scarborough apartment.
Christie, 23, was shot dead after his pregnant girlfriend opened the door to the apartment on Dec. 19, 2004, police said.
Two men stormed into the apartment, and one of them shot Christie in the head.
At the time of the murder, police alleged that Christie had an argument with a man over drugs shortly before he was killed. The shooting occurred after Christie returned to his apartment to cool down.
Police held a news conference a year after Christie was killed to ask for the public's help in finding their suspect.
"Shooting an unarmed man over a very minor argument, it's just cowardly," Toronto police Det. Sgt. Rudy Pasini of the homicide squad said at the time.
The latest development took place Saturday around 8:40 p.m. when York Region police arrested a man during a drug trafficking investigation in Markham. He is alleged to have given police a false name.
Chas Berry, 22, is charged with first-degree murder. Another man, Aleksander Jovanovski, then 18, was charged with first-degree murder on the day of the shooting. |
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