JP shortage sets bad drivers free: Police

TheStar.com - JP shortage sets bad drivers free: Police: "Thousands of people charged with serious provincial offences - mostly traffic charges - in York Region are getting off because of a 'critical' shortage of justices of the peace, Police Chief Armand La Barge says."

Vacation

Although the crime will continue for the next week, my updates will not: I'm on vacation until September 25.

Man in critical condition after shooting

insidetoronto.com: "A 33-year-old man is in critical condition in hospital after being shot in the face outside a north Scarborough apartment building Thursday night."

Law student charged in drive-by shooting

Law student charged in drive-by shooting: "A University of Ottawa law student was arrested Thursday after a man in a car fired a pellet gun into a crowd at the university."

TV's Bounty Hunter arrested

TheStar.com - TV's Bounty Hunter arrested: "
HONOLULU — TV reality star Duane (Dog) Chapman and two co-stars on his show were arrested Thursday in Hawaii on charges of illegal detention and conspiracy in the bounty hunters' capture three years ago of a cosmetics company heir."

Rare Obstruction of Justice Charge Laid Against Ajax Woman

CNW Telbec: "TORONTO, Sept. 13 /CNW/ - Members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Pearson International Airport Detachment's General Investigation Impact Team have charged one individual with accepting money to act as a surety for a stranger. The offence is described in Section 139 (1)(b) of the Criminal Code."

Jury selection in Burlington trial

TheStar.com - Jury selection in Burlington trial: "The final jury selection is now under way to choose the 12 men and women who will decide whether four men accused of the beating death of a Burlington student more than five years ago are guilty as charged."

TheStar.com - College killer shot himself

TheStar.com - College killer shot himself: "MONTREAL — Eight years ago he was a high-school senior with glasses, a baby face and two younger brothers living in a pretty bungalow on a tree-lined suburban street."

Kimveer Gill is now dead at age 25, his gory legacy summed up on an Internet diary that carries a tombstone with his name printed on it — over the phrase: “Lived fast died young. Left a mangled corpse.”

Pellet gun discharged on school bus

TheStar.com - Pellet gun discharged on school bus: "
NAPANEE — A 15-year-old eastern Ontario boy is in court for a bail hearing today after a fellow student was shot with a pellet gun on a school bus."

Teens fight adult rap

edmontonsun.com - Canada - Teens fight adult rap: "TORONTO -- The teen who boasted of 'drinking blood' to his girlfriend shortly before the grisly slaying of 12-year-old Johnathan 'had a mild fetish for blood and dabbled in vampirism,' a Superior Court heard yesterday."

Husband suspected in wife's killing

TheStar.com - Husband suspected in wife's killing: "A former Canadian spy remains under police guard in Burlington hospital this morning, suspected in the killing of his elderly wife."

Gunman had 'stone-cold face'

TheStar.com - Gunman had 'stone-cold face': "MONTREAL — A trenchcoat-clad gunman with a zealous gaze turned a college cafeteria into a combat zone Wednesday with a commando-style assault that left him and a young woman dead."

]Pair arrested in robbery-homicide

TheStar.com - Pair arrested in robbery-homicide: "Two men have been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the shooting death of a man during a break-in at his Woodbridge home last year."

Stabbings stun tour group

TheStar.com - Stabbings stun tour group: Investigators are looking at several grisly scenarios, including the possibility of a double homicide-suicide to explain the bizarre circumstances that left three people dead in a downtown hotel early yesterday morning. Betsy Powell and Tracy Huffman report.

Punish terrorists, but not with flawed Anti-Terror Act: Khawaja lawyer

CANOE -- CNEWS - Law: Punish terrorists, but not with flawed Anti-Terror Act: Khawaja lawyer: "OTTAWA (CP) - Terrorists should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, says the lawyer for terror suspect Momin Khawaja, but not under the 'mockery of parliamentary legislation' that is the Anti-Terrorism Act."

hysician and 6 others charged with Fraud and Drug Offences

CNW Group: "TORONTO, Sept. 12 /CNW/ - The Ontario Provincial Police, Anti-Rackets and Drug Enforcement, Health Fraud Investigation Unit has charged a physician and six other persons with Fraud, Conspiracy and Drug offences, following a lengthy criminal investigation."

Cocaine Smuggling Ring Smashed at Toronto International Airport - Four people charged with conspiracy to import cocaine into Cana

Toronto Daily News - Cocaine Smuggling Ring Smashed at Toronto International Airport - Four people charged with conspiracy to import cocaine into Canada : "The General Investigation Impact Team of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Toronto Airport Detachment has charged four people with conspiracy to import cocaine into Canada. The four are part of an alleged criminal drug smuggling organization that used both human couriers and cargo shipments to import cocaine into Canada through Toronto's Pearson
International Airport."

Teen arrested in rollerblade robbery

TheStar.com - Teen arrested in rollerblade robbery: "A 16-year-old female was arrested yesterday after a young woman robbed a taxi driver at knifepoint and took off on rollerblades."

Single moms used as drug mules, RCMP says

TheStar.com - Single moms used as drug mules, RCMP says: "RCMP have arrested four people in an alleged cocaine smuggling ring they say recruited vulnerable people to traffic the drug through Pearson International Airport."

Teacher felt boy's privates, trial hears

TheStar.com - Teacher felt boy's privates, trial hears: "A science teacher at prestigious Upper Canada College held a 13-year-old boy's penis while fitting him with a 'catheter' for a mock kidney transplant, a child-sex trial has heard."

Johnathan's killer known as 'time bomb'

TheStar.com - Johnathan's killer known as 'time bomb': "A teenager who stabbed his 12-year-old brother 71 times is a “very disturbed young man” who qualifies as a 'psychopath,” according to a psychiatrist’s testimony Tuesday."

'Johnathan' judge grows impatient

TheStar.com - 'Johnathan' judge grows impatient: "A Superior Court judge says there will be no further delay in the sentencing trial of two teenagers convicted in the stabbing death of the 12-year-old Toronto-boy known only as Johnathan."

Hotel guests heard cries

TheStar.com - Hotel guests heard cries: "Toronto police say the three deaths at the Delta Chelsea Hotel on Gerrard St. E. just west of Yonge St. may be a murder-suicide, but they haven't ruled out the possibility that a fourth person was involved."

Rollerblader robs cabbie at knifepoint

TheStar.com - Rollerblader robs cabbie at knifepoint: "Police are searching for a young woman who took off on rollerblades after a taxi driver was robbed at knifepoint."

Police charge 2 after Friday shooting

TheStar.com - Police charge 2 after Friday shooting: "Police charged two people with attempted murder and seized four guns from an apartment in connection with a weekend shooting in Scarborough."

Lawyer loses attack appeal

TorontoSun.com - Toronto And GTA - Lawyer loses attack appeal: "A one-time Toronto lawyer who sexually assaulted a homeless woman lost a bid to quash his conviction for what he claimed was a 'rape and bondage fantasy' acted out by him and the victim after they drank heavily and smoked crack."

Ontario announces steps to protect homeowners victimized by ID thieves

Ontario announces steps to protect homeowners victimized by ID thieves: "TORONTO (CP) - New steps designed to protect Ontario property owners from the growing threat of identity theft are a 'start,' one recent victim said Friday as the provincial government unveiled plans to crack down on high-tech imposters."

Man charged in sexual assaults

TheStar.com - Man charged in sexual assaults: "A 48-year-old Toronto man has been charged in two separate sexual assault cases and Toronto police are urging other victims to come forward."

Police shoot man during alleged break and enter

TheStar.com - Police shoot man during alleged break and enter: "A man was shot and killed by a York Regional Police officer responding to a break and enter call in Newmarket Thursday afternoon."

Paris Hilton arrested

TheStar.com - Paris Hilton arrested: "Paris Hilton says she only drank one margarita. But it was enough to get her arrested early Thursday for allegedly driving under the influence."

Lawyer Shoniker jailed

TheStar.com - Lawyer Shoniker jailed: "Peter Shoniker, a lawyer and once-powerful figure in city and provincial politics, was handcuffed and led away from a University Ave. courtroom today after being ordered to spend 15 months in jail for money laundering."

Man shot in drive-by on Sheppard Ave.

TheStar.com - Man shot in drive-by on Sheppard Ave.: "Toronto police are hunting for a suspect after a young man was shot Wednesday afternoon in a drive-by shooting in North York."

Hurt in blast, homeowner charged

TheStar.com - Hurt in blast, homeowner charged: "A 54-year-old Mississauga man was arrested earlier today and charged in connection with last Monday's explosion that levelled his home and caused damage to other residences."

Police arrest 3 in street battle

TheStar.com - Police arrest 3 in street battle: "A man mistakenly shot his already-wounded father in the leg yesterday as he wrestled with a robber in a Brampton townhouse complex."

Mississauga man hit with stick

TheStar.com - Mississauga man hit with stick: "A violent domestic in a Mississauga home sent a father to hospital with life-threatening injuries yesterday."

Stabbing at York U residence

TheStar.com - Stabbing at York U residence: "A 19-year-old woman is recovering in hospital after allegedly attacking her former boyfriend and then turning the knife on herself."

Not guilty of murder, four say

TheStar.com - Not guilty of murder, four say: "Four men accused in the savage beating death of a popular Burlington student have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder."

Two hurt in street fight

TheStar.com - Two hurt in street fight: "Two people were taken to hospital after gunshots were fired outside a Brampton townhouse complex this morning."

T.O. man York's 10th homicide victim

TheStar.com - T.O. man York's 10th homicide victim: "Police have identified York Region's 10th homicide of the year as a 39-year-old Toronto man."

Man dies after Brampton stabbing

TheStar.com - Man dies after Brampton stabbing: "A 49-year-old man killed in an apparent stabbing at a Brampton apartment building is Peel Region's seventh homicide of the year."

Call to crack down on crooks

TheStar.com - Call to crack down on crooks: "Peter Shoniker was candid as he boasted to the undercover Mountie — who was wearing a hidden recording device — that there wasn't a 'f---ing judge in this city' who would grant a wiretap authorization on his phone lines."

Guns 'bit of a bonus' in drug raid

TorontoSun.com - Toronto And GTA - Guns 'bit of a bonus' in drug raid: "An undercover cop who infiltrated a coke ring in Scarborough was able to work his way up the underworld hierarchy, eventually gaining access to a dealer with guns as well as drugs, police said yesterday."

Gun suspects face tougher bail

globeandmail.com : Gun suspects face tougher bail: "OSHAWA, ONT. -- The federal government plans to make it more difficult for those facing weapons-related charges to get bail, making good on its promise to crack down on guns and gangs."