Homicide #44/2006*, Shawn Smith, 34, Man charged with Second Degree Murder, Camillo Angiolillo, 27

Toronto Police Service :: To Serve and Protect
On Thursday, July 27, 2006, at approximately 11 p.m., police responded to a radio call at 20 Sewells Road in regards to an unwanted guest.

Police located the lifeless body of a 34-year-old man inside an apartment with obvious signs of trauma to his body.

See previous news release.

The deceased has been identified as Darren Shawn Smith, 34, of Toronto.

On Saturday, July 29, 2006, a post-mortem examination was conducted and the cause of death was determined to be “Compressive Neck Injuries.”

Camillo Angiolillo, 27, has been arrested and charged with Second Degree Murder in relation to the death of Darren Shawn Smith.

He was scheduled to appear in court on Saturday, July 29, 2006, at Old City Hall Courts, 10 a.m.

Homicide #40/06*, Yasmin Ashareh, 20, Update, Man charged with First Degree Murder, William Imona-Russel, 32

Toronto Police Service :: To Serve and Protect: "On Friday, July 14, 2006, at approximately 9:56 a.m., human remains were located near 248 John Garland Boulevard.

See previous news release.

On Friday, July 28, 2006, William Imona-Russel, 32, of Toronto, was arrested and charged with First Degree Murder.

He is scheduled to appear at Old City Hall courts, room 111, on Saturday, July 29, 2006, at 10 a.m.

Charge laid in woman's death

TheStar.com - Charge laid in woman's death: "A 32-year-old Toronto man has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the stabbing death last week of Yasmin Ashareh, a 20-year-old food store clerk whose body was found stuffed into a garbage bag."

Carjackers prey on wealthy York drivers

TheStar.com - Carjackers prey on wealthy York drivers: "Carjackings are surging in York Region and police have been trying to match wits with increasingly sophisticated thieves, who have had to adapt to technology making it harder to steal cars without a key."

Police sued in Beaches jazzfest arrest

TheStar.com - Police sued in Beaches jazzfest arrest A 40-year-old criminal lawyer and former Beach resident is suing police and the organizers over an incident at a Beaches International Jazz Festival event, in which she ended up in handcuffs after she insisted to be let past a barricade to get home. Jim Rankin reports.

10 years' jail for beating neighbour

TheStar.com - 10 years' jail for beating neighbour: "A man who attacked his neighbour, tying her up and leaving her for dead with six stab wounds, was sentenced to 10 years in prison yesterday."

Hitman confesses yet walks free

TheStar.com - Hitman confesses yet walks free: "A Quebec hitman for the Bandidos biker gang who confessed to killing a Markham man for $10,000 is back on the streets without ever being prosecuted for the crime."

Bail system under fire from website readers - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television

CTV Toronto - Bail system under fire from website readers - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television: "Toronto.ctv.ca has been receiving email from people expressing their opinion on the bail system.

The following is a sampling of how people feel. The responses have been edited in some cases for clarity or brevity."

Teen terror suspect gets bail

TheStar.com - Teen terror suspect gets bail: "After seven weeks in custody, the youngest of 17 suspects accused in an alleged homegrown terror plot was granted bail and walked out of a Brampton courthouse yesterday."

Man shot outside nightclub

Toronto Police Service :: To Serve and Protect On Monday, July 24, 2006, at approximately 3:15 a.m., a man was shot while leaving the Rumours nightclub in the Eglinton Avenue East/Danforth Road area.

It is alleged that an unknown suspect shot into a large crowd of people in a parking lot.

Police know of only one victim. The man, in his 20s, received multiple gunshot wounds and was treated in hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.

Man faces four charges in sexual assault investigation, Saturnino "Nino" Alberi, 60, 22 Division

Toronto Police Service :: To Serve and Protect - Following an investigation by 22 Division Youth Bureau, a man is facing four charges in a sexual assault investigation involving a hockey trainer.

Man faces four charges for weapons offences, Loaded pellet gun, baton and holster seized

Toronto Police Service :: To Serve and Protect: Narine Dasrat, 24, of Mississauga, is charged with:

1) Two counts of Weapons Dangerous,

2) Two counts of Carry Concealed Weapon.

He is scheduled to appear in court on Saturday, July 22, 2006, at Old City Hall, 60 Queen Street West, in courtroom 101, at 10 a.m.

Search warrant executed, Firearms and crack cocaine allegedly recovered, Two suspects sought, 22 Division

Toronto Police Service :: To Serve and Protect -
On Thursday, July 20, 2006, members of the 22 Division Community Response Unit, along with the Emergency Task Force, executed a search warrant at 135 Eighth Street, Unit 111.

As a result of the investigation, it is alleged that two firearms and a quantity of crack cocaine were seized.

Warrants have been issued for two outstanding suspects.

The first suspect is Willy Richard Gaete, 24, described as white, 6’, 200 lbs., with brown hair and brown eyes.

Homicide 43/2006*, Lawrence Callahan, 64

Toronto Police Service :: To Serve and Protect On Friday, June 2, 2006, police were called to an apartment on the 10th floor of 145 Strathmore Boulevard for an unconscious man.

Homicide #41/2006*, Omar Wellington, 17, Photo released

Toronto Police Service :: To Serve and Protect On Saturday, July 15, 2006, at approximately 6:35 p.m., police were called to a wooded area near the southwest corner of Flemingdon Park for unknown trouble.

Homicide rate hits highest level since 1996

globeandmail.com : Homicide rate hits highest level since 1996: "There were more homicides -- notably in Edmonton -- more robberies and more armed assaults, but overall crime was down 5 per cent in 2005. That's the distinctly mixed picture visible in the newest annual snapshot of Canadian lawbreaking.

The homicide rate rose by 4 per cent in 2005, Statistics Canada reported yesterday."

Behind the headlines, the facts show crime isn't raging out of control

Behind the headlines, the facts show crime isn't raging out of control: "As is often the case, the media have been stirring up fear about crime, but what they don't tell you is as important, if not more important, than what they do say."

Homicide rate hits highest level since 1996

globeandmail.com : Homicide rate hits highest level since 1996: "There were more homicides -- notably in Edmonton -- more robberies and more armed assaults, but overall crime was down 5 per cent in 2005. That's the distinctly mixed picture visible in the newest annual snapshot of Canadian lawbreaking."

Law Society presents honorary doctorates at Toronto call to bar ceremonies

CNW Group: "TORONTO, July 20 /CNW/ - The Law Society of Upper Canada presented honorary degrees of Doctor of Laws (LLD) to three distinguished members of the profession: Clayton C. Ruby, CM, LLD; Diana Margaret Majury, LLD; and The Hon. Patrick J. LeSage, Q.C., LLD respectively at three separate ceremonies to welcome 833 of the province's 1,000 new lawyers at Roy Thomson Hall on July 20 and 21."

Lawyers don't foresee bail spree

TorontoSun.com - Toronto And GTA - Lawyers don't foresee bail spree: "The lawyer representing one of 78 people arrested in an anti-street gang sweep in Etobicoke says his client's release on bail won't open the court's floodgates in granting bail to others."

One of 17 suspected Toronto terrorists released on bail

680News - ALL NEWS RADIO: "Toronto - One of the 17 terror suspects arrested for allegedly planning attacks in Ontario has been released on bail."

Articling students rare in criminal law

Where have all the articling students gone? Well, they haven't gone into criminal defence work. Times are tough in Ontario these days for anyone wanting to enter the criminal bar.

Sask. justice minister: Tougher laws needed

CANOE -- CNEWS - Law: Sask. justice minister: Tougher laws needed: "SASKATOON (CP) - Chronic and repeat criminals need to face tougher mandatory minimum sentences, Saskatchewan's justice minister said Thursday."

Homicide rate up last year: StatsCan

CANOE -- CNEWS - Law: Homicide rate up last year: StatsCan: "
Homicide rate up last year: StatsCan OTTAWA (CP) - Statistics Canada says the homicide rate rose by four per cent last year to its highest level in almost 10 years."

Gun-smuggling suspect on bail

TheStar.com - Gun-smuggling suspect on bail: "A man facing more than 100 firearms and drug charges — and who police allege was a key player in a gun-smuggling pipeline that supplied firepower to a violent west-end street gang — has been released on bail.

Steven Lucas, 27, was arrested May 18 as part of Project XXX, the largest anti-gang offensive in the city's history."

Nightclub victim had faced charge

TheStar.com - Nightclub victim had faced charge: "The man killed at a Richmond St. nightclub early Monday was once charged with shooting and crippling a teenager, police say.

Kirk Giles, the 30-year-old shot to death on the rooftop patio of the Volume club, had a criminal record that included an attempted murder charge."

Man jailed for vicious alley attack

TheStar.com - Man jailed for vicious alley attack: "An ex-con with a long history of violent crimes has been sentenced to the equivalent of 32 months in jail for attacking an 18-year-old woman in downtown Toronto."

Serial killer Olson denied parole

TheStar.com - Serial killer Olson denied parole: "STE-ANNE-DES-PLAINES, Que. — Serial killer Clifford Olson will remain behind bars after authorities concluded Tuesday he would kill again if released from prison."

Homicide #41/2006*, Omar Wellington, 17

Toronto Police Service :: To Serve and Protect On Saturday, July 15, 2006, at approximately 6:35 p.m., police were called to a wooded area near the southwest corner of Flemingdon Park for unknown trouble.

Officers discovered the lifeless body of a male.

Homicide #42/2006*, Kirk Giles, 30

Toronto Police Service :: To Serve and Protect: On Monday, July 17, 2006, shortly after 2 a.m., police were called to the Volume Nightclub, 318 Richmond Street West, for a shooting.

Police DNA database 'is spiralling out of control'

The Observer | UK News | Police DNA database 'is spiralling out of control': "The security of the police National DNA Database is in question following the disclosure of confidential emails which reveal that a private firm has secretly been keeping the genetic samples and personal details of hundreds of thousands of arrested people."

Drug rip-off trend makes police worry

TheStar.com - Drug rip-off trend makes police worry: "It's been called the perfect crime — and police say it's vastly under-reported, fuels violence and belies the notion there is honour among thieves or drug dealers."

Police seek help after woman's body found in garbage bag

Police seek help after woman's body found in garbage bag: "Police are searching for answers after finding a young Toronto woman's body in a garbage bag in the city's west end."

Man killed in rooftop patio shooting

Man killed in rooftop patio shooting: "A man is dead and two others were wounded when a man opened fire on a rooftop patio in Toronto's club district early Monday morning."

2 charged after woman, 97, left in hot car

2 charged after woman, 97, left in hot car: "A 97-year-old woman is recovering in a Toronto-area hospital from severe dehydration after she was left in a vehicle for nearly an hour in the sweltering heat Saturday afternoon."

3rd bomb-plot suspect denied bail

3rd bomb-plot suspect denied bail: "Another of the 17 bomb-plot suspects was denied bail Monday, just days after one of the youths was released from jail."

JURIST - Forum: Rape, Porn and Criminality: Political Truth on Trial

JURIST - Forum: Rape, Porn and Criminality: Political Truth on Trial: "JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law says that the correlation between a newly-documented drastic decline in sexual violence in the United States and a major increase in social access to pornography - most recently over the Internet - casts doubt on widely-accepted government findings on the causal connection between pornography and criminality and suggests that one impact of porn may actually be positive..."

Homicide #40/2006*

Toronto Police Service :: To Serve and Protect: "
On Friday, July 14, 2006, at approximately 9:56 a.m., human remains were located near 248 John Garland Boulevard."

[TPS] - Homicide #37/2006*, Virgilio Cuevas, 31, Homicide #38/2006*, Woman, 56, Update

Toronto Police Service :: To Serve and Protect On Wednesday, July 12, 2006, at approximately 8:45 p.m., police attended the Steeles Avenue East/Markham Road area for a shooting.

Seven grow-operations allegedly located in one apartment building, Man faces nine charges, 14 Division

Toronto Police Service :: To Serve and Protect On Friday, July 14, 2006, search warrants were executed at 75 Spencer Avenue. Units on the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth floors were allegedly found to be converted to marijuana grow-operations.

Four homicides, one long night

TheStar.com - Four homicides, one long night: "Virgilo Cuevas often used the garage of his home for refuge, and to smoke — and that's where he and a female 'acquaintance' were shot dead, leaving Toronto police searching for a motive and the killers."

Judge reserves bail decision in terror case

TheStar.com - Judge reserves bail decision in terror case: "An Ontario judge is deliberating whether the youngest of the 17 alleged 'homegrown' terrorists should be released on bail, or spend up to two years in a detention centre awaiting trial."

Sentencing Friday for Tanner Hopkins murder - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television

CTV Toronto - Sentencing Friday for Tanner Hopkins murder - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television: "A young offender will hear his sentence on Friday for the 2004 stabbing death of Tanner Hopkins during a party at the victim's home in Toronto."

Canada arrest over ecstasy haul - National Breaking News - Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au

Canada arrest over ecstasy haul - National Breaking News - Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au: "Law enforcement agencies in three countries tracked the man as he travelled from Australia, through Hong Kong, to Canada between June 10 and July 2."

Unethical isn't criminal: court

winnipegsun.com - Canada News - Unethical isn't criminal: court: "OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court of Canada, saying there's a difference between being unethical and being a criminal, has tightened the legal rules to make it tougher to convict politicians and public servants of breach of trust."

Terror suspect granted bail

TorontoSun.com - News - Terror suspect granted bail: "BRAMPTON - A youth arrested in last month’s terrorism raids was granted bail this morning. He is the first suspect in the case to be granted bail."

Drop in spousal killings —but not in Toronto

TheStar.com - Drop in spousal killings —but not in Toronto: "The number of men and women killing their spouses across Canada has dropped dramatically over the last 30 years even though the number of domestic homicides in Toronto this year has already surpassed last year's total, the national statistics agency said yesterday."

Defence lawyer says use of mole shows there's 'no terrorism in Canada'

Defence lawyer says use of mole shows there's 'no terrorism in Canada': "TORONTO (CP) - An RCMP informant's decision to go public with how he infiltrated a group accused of plotting terror attacks on Canadian soil has infuriated the lawyer of one of the accused, who says the group was set up."

FBI's search of office ruled constitutional

The Seattle Times: Nation & World: FBI's search of office ruled constitutional: "WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled Monday that the unprecedented FBI raid on Rep. William Jefferson's Capitol Hill office was constitutional, saying the government 'demonstrated a compelling need to conduct the search' in the ongoing corruption probe."

Crown: Lock up perv for good

TorontoSun.com - Toronto And GTA - Crown: Lock up perv for good: "A sexual predator, who molested a 13-year-old girl in a bathroom after being attacked by her heroic German shepherd dog, is fighting a prosecution bid to keep him behind bars indefinitely."

Publication ban challenged for Toronto 17 - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television

CTV Toronto - Publication ban challenged for Toronto 17 - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television: "BRAMPTON, Ont. — The sweeping publication ban covering the bail hearings of 17 people charged with plotting terrorist attacks against Canadian targets should be overturned to satisfy the public's overwhelming interest in the case, court heard Monday."

Prosecutors playing 'hardball' with Black

Prosecutors playing 'hardball' with Black: "Conrad Black is finding the American justice system a costly proposition, but opinion is split on whether prosecutors are simply mounting a tough challenge -- or an unfair one."

Police chiefs sell access to meeting

globeandmail.com : Police chiefs sell access to meeting: "VANCOUVER -- For a mere $25,000, it will be possible to schmooze with some of the most senior police officers in the country at the annual gathering of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police in St. John's next month."

Man sought in Toronto sex assaults

CANOE -- CNEWS - Law: Man sought in Toronto sex assaults: The same man tried to sexually assault two women in separate attacks in Etobicoke during the weekend, Toronto Police said today

Quebec killer wins right to become lawyer

globeandmail.com : Quebec killer wins right to become lawyer: "MONTREAL — He left the country after being repeatedly denied enrolment in the Quebec bar admission course because he stabbed his mother to death when he was younger. But Sébastien Brousseau has finally prevailed in his decade-long campaign for the right to become a lawyer."

Man wounded in east-end shooting

TheStar.com - Man wounded in east-end shooting: "Toronto Police are investigating after a 29-year-old man was shot in the city’s east end."

Accused in hotel drug incident 'a fine young lady'

TheStar.com - Accused in hotel drug incident 'a fine young lady': "The Montreal banker linked to the alleged drug rip-off and subsequent shooting at a luxury downtown Toronto hotel on Monday night is 'a fine young lady and an upstanding citizen,' her lawyer said outside court Friday."

Local truck in Iowa drug bust

TheStar.com - Local truck in Iowa drug bust: "It started with a truckload of tomato paste and ended with a drug bust for $2.5 million worth of cocaine.

But for Balwant Birk, owner of the trucking company Equator Logistics Ltd., connecting the dots between the two is the hard part."

Expert calls Truscott evidence 'ludicrous'

CANOE -- CNEWS - Law: Expert calls Truscott evidence 'ludicrous': "TORONTO (CP) - An expert who literally wrote the book on forensic pathology cast further doubt Friday on the evidence used to convict Stephen Truscott in the 1959 murder of Lynne Harper."

Man shot dead outside west-end restaurant

TheStar.com - Man shot dead outside west-end restaurant: "Toronto police are investigating the city’s fourth Weston Rd. homicide in just over three months after an early morning double shooting left one man dead and sent another to hospital."

Creba suspect, 17, granted bail

TheStar.com - Creba suspect, 17, granted bail: "A 17-year-old boy charged with manslaughter in the Boxing Day shooting that left 15-year-old Jane Creba dead was released on $100,000 bail yesterday."

Attorney General announces Cobourg judicial appointment

CNW Group: "TORONTO, June 30 /CNW/ - Attorney General Michael Bryant today announced the appointment of Robert Graydon as a provincial judge to the Ontario Court of Justice, effective July 12, 2006."

Mom's alcoholism turned sisters' love into hate and murder, says judge

CANOE -- CNEWS - Law: Mom's alcoholism turned sisters' love into hate and murder, says judge: "
Mom's alcoholism turned sisters' love into hate and murder, says judge

BRAMPTON, Ont. (CP) - The hatred that inspired two teenage sisters to ply the mother they once loved with pills and alcohol before drowning her in the family bathtub sprung from circumstances beyond their control, a judge said Friday in handing the pair youth sentences."

Man, 40, stabbed at Scarborough bus stop

TheStar.com - Man, 40, stabbed at Scarborough bus stop: "Police are investigating after a 40-year-old man with his young daughter was stabbed while reading a newspaper on a Scarborough sidewalk this morning."

Taxi killing suspect arrested

TheStar.com - Taxi killing suspect arrested: "The man wanted in the fatal stabbing of Toronto taxi driver Mahmood Bhatti in May has been arrested in Vancouver."