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Letter bomb mystery deepens
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Letter bomb mystery deepens
2007 09 01
Police close DVP as they take devices to lake for destruction, then focus their search on east-end `Bombay Bunker'
Sep 01, 2007 04:30 AM
Simona Siad
Jen Gerson
Surya Bhattacharya
Staff Reporters
The Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/252285
A gutted red bungalow known by neighbours as the "Bombay Bunker" was the focus of an intensive police search overnight by bomb squad investigators probing a string of attempted letter bombings here and in Guelph.
Police, who have one man under arrest, are investigating the manufacture of at least six explosive devices – three sent to unwitting recipients here and in Guelph during the past several weeks, and three found in the trunk of a rental car stopped Thursday night at an Esso station at Overlea Blvd. and Thorncliffe Park Dr. in Don Mills.
"We don't have a motive at this point," Toronto police Const. Wendy Drummond said. "We do know that the three victims – the two in Toronto and the one in Guelph – were not chosen at random."
The discovery of the bombs in the car led to a day of high drama in a city unused to bomb threats. Officers, unable to safely disassemble the devices, decided to explode them on the remote Leslie St. Spit, and shut down the Don Valley Parkway's southbound lanes around noon for the convoy transporting the explosives.
As helicopters buzzed overhead, more than a dozen vehicles took 90 minutes to make the journey through leafy residential streets, down the DVP and along the Leslie St. Spit's rutted dirt tracks to an isolated point of land jutting out into Lake Ontario, where the three devices were exploded in a ball of black, yellow and white smoke.
Thursday night's dramatic high-risk takedown of the suspect, who police had been following, came after the man began acting nervously at the gas station.
"I was pumping some gas and I went inside to pay for the gas, and there was a guy inside who was asking for jumper cables," said Jamal Watson, 23, who witnessed the takedown.
"I thought there was something wrong with his car, the way he was acting – he was nervous, you could just see it," Watson added. "He kept yelling `Jumper cables! Do you have any jumper cables?' And the man at the cash wouldn't answer him."
The suspect, Watson said, "was getting agitated, and he kept going in and out of the store, yelling to the shop owner."
That's when Watson noticed two men, who he now realizes were plainclothes police officers, following the suspect.
"Two guys who were behind him in line stepped outside, and were waiting for him to come out," Watson said. "They were undercover cops, I think. So as soon as he stepped out, four guys were on top of him.
"They handcuffed him and yelled at us `Police officers! Police! Just get out! Get out! Move out!'"
Not sure of what was happening, Watson heeded the orders, jumped into his car and drove off as police were handcuffing the suspect, who was being held face-down on the pavement.
Yesterday Adel Mohamed Arnaout of 176 Ashdale Ave.was remanded to Sept. 5 during a brief appearance in provincial court on Eglinton Ave. E.
Arnaout, handcuffed and wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, is charged with three counts of attempted murder, three counts of intending to cause an explosion, one count of criminal harassment and one count of possession of explosive material.
ALEX TAVSHUNSKY FOR THE TORONTO STAR
Adel Mohamed Arnaout, suspected of sending three letter bombs, appeared in Eglinton Ave. E. court, Friday, August 31, 2007.
Within hours, police were scouring the Ashdale Ave. bungalow, in the Coxwell Ave. and Gerrard St. E. area, which neighbours said was sometimes home to up to 30 people at a time.
"That's definitely a strange house," said Ashley Hinds, who lives nearby.
"Most of the residents have a nickname for it, `Bombay Bunker.' It wasn't because of the families, it was because of the brick extensions and the double steel doors in the front, the tiny peep windows with mesh lining.
"Everyone thought something unusual was always happening there, because people came and went all the time. The illegal extensions were reported to authorities, but nothing was done."
Neighbour Sue Hammond said the house, with two gaping open windows and surrounded by construction debris, "was conspicuous because of the way that the front was built.
"When the doors are shut and the gates are shut, it looks like a fortress compared to the homes around it."
Karrie Peterbaugh, another neighbour, said "There were so many people in and out of that place, it was really hard to keep track.
It was also difficult to keep track of the construction that always seemed to be going on, she added. "It started out as a small little shack. They kept on adding and saying it was for family, and the next thing it was a rental unit."
According to police sources, the investigation into the letter bombs began in June when Toronto resident Steven Scott complained to police of being repeatedly harassed by a man.
The ensuing police investigation began drawing links between the suspect and a string of incidents involving letter bombs.
The first recipient, Abdelmagid Radi, who lives in the Victoria Park and Lawrence Ave. E. area, sustained minor injuries when he opened a letter bomb Aug. 11.
The second, real estate lawyer Terrence Reiber, called police Aug. 19 after noticing a package smelling of a petroleum-type odour at his house in the Yonge St.-Sheppard Ave. area ; that device was later detonated by police.
Both of the packages were bubble-wrapped envelopes, had properly addressed courier receipts and contained petroleum-type fluid.
While both packages bore the same courier label, they were not delivered by courier, Const. George Schuurman said. "So there's a belief that the suspect modified blank courier labels."
A third package, opened by Guelph resident John Becker Aug. 22, contained a bomb packed with nails and explosive materials, but the device did not explode.
With files from John Duncanson, Dale Anne Freed
VIDEO: Toronto police destroy three bombs
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It’s okay to deport bad people
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(Published in the Chilliwack Times week of Aug. 27, 2007) |
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It’s okay if we deport some bad people – It’s really ok |
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 By John Martin
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Every time I drive back into Canada from a visit to Washington State I’ve always thought we should erect a big billboard for all to see. It would say, “IF YOU WERE A WAR CRIMINAL, TERRORIST OR INTERNATIONAL DRUG DEALER - YOU WOULD BE HOME BY NOW.” |
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Why is it that after hundreds of revelations of incompetence and bureaucratic bumbling, we still appear unable to effectively deport undesirables who shouldn’t be here in the first place? |
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For decades we’ve had the slackest, most reckless refugee policy that allowed anyone and everyone to gain the right to remain in the country so long as they ate their passport on the flight, lied about their identity, and said the magical “R” word at customs; that being “refugee”. Under the previous Liberal government, that was enough to guarantee refugee status on the spot. |
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Mercifully, there’s finally a modicum of scrutiny and oversight to the refugee process and we actually deny the privilege to some drug traffickers, child molesters and tyrants. |
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But in terms of actually removing people from the country, we continue to have a dismal track record. |
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More than ten years ago Nok Souvannarath was ordered deported to Laos. His appeal of the deportation order was rejected and he was subsequently declared a danger to the public by the immigration minister at the time. He’s still here; in Abbotsford to be precise. Meanwhile he continues to rack up weapons and drug charges. The latest came when he was out on $50,000 bail for previous drug related charges. Now he’s out on $1000 bail and there’s still no word on why the deportation order hasn’t been carried out. |
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He is hardly unique. There are thousands of cases quite similar to his. In many of them, we don’t have a clue where they are. What is so difficult about putting someone who has been ordered deported on a plane and actually…deporting them? This shouldn’t be overly problematic. |
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Failed claimants have countless venues of appeal and can usually get any final deportation order delayed by crying in front of a judge who has never met a bogus refugee he didn’t like. Naturally the legal process and check and balances are going to take time. But these things typically drag on for decades. There are people in this province fighting deportation certificates that were issued when Bill Vander Zalm was premier for crying out loud. |
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Officially, we won’t deport even the worst of the worst to Afghanistan, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Iraq, Liberia, Rwanda, or Zimbabwe because of conflict and human rights issues in those countries. |
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But there are numerous other countries such as Syria, China, Sudan, Somalia and Iran where we tend to be reluctant to deport undesirables to as well. We should probably add Laos to that list judging by the Souvannarath case. |
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Meanwhile, many of the bogus claimants commit serious and often violent crimes, and this has no effect whatsoever on their cases. |
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Being compassionate and sensitive to human rights issues in third world countries is one thing. But to literally handcuff ourselves so we have no ability to deport people who shouldn’t be here and are clearly a high level danger to the public is utter madness. |
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John Martin is a Criminologist at the University College of the Fraser Valley |
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Re: It’s okay to deport bad people
i have been saying the same things for years it time we wake up and face the facts we are the refugees criminals place of choice
stupidity governs the world
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Murderer Gary Gormley,escapes from Dorchester
Convicted Murderer Gary Gormley,escapes from Dorchester
Murderer missing from N.B. prison
September 6, 2007
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2007/09/06/gormley-escape.html
Police have established a road block at the foot of P.E.I.'s Confederation Bridge as part of a search for a convicted murderer who was noticed missing Thursday from Westmoreland Institution in Dorchester, N.B., during a routine head count.
Gary Gormley, convicted in 1996 of a murder in Charlottetown, was noticed missing at noon, according to a news release from Correctional Services Canada. RCMP have released a photo of Gormley. They describe him as six feet tall, 200 pounds, and potentially dangerous.
Police have established a road block at the foot of P.E.I.'s Confederation Bridge as part of a search for a convicted murderer who was noticed missing Thursday from Westmoreland Institution in Dorchester, N.B., during a routine head count.
Gary Gormley is considered dangerous by police.
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Police are searching every vehicle as it comes across the Confederation Bridge on to P.E.I.
Maurice Leblanc, assistant warden at the Westmoreland Institution, a minimum security facility, told CBC News an investigation is underway.
The RCMP conduct their investigation and so do we, ![Angel [A]](/emoticons/emotion-13.gif) separate investigation to find out exactly what took place," said Leblanc.
"Once he's captured he'll be sent to a higher security institution."
Gormley was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Clifford McIver, and was sentenced in August 1996 to life with no chance of parole for 12 years.
Gormley previously escaped from a police van while on his way to the sentencing in 1996, but was quickly recaptured.
He leaped out of a police van and into a car being driven by his brother, James. He was taken back into custody within a few hours.
McIver was found beaten and strangled in his apartment in the Charlottetown neighbourhood of Parkdale in March of 1995.
Eddie Clark was found to be guilty of being an accessory after the fact to the murder.
The trial heard evidence that both were in the apartment the night of the murder, and each accused the other of the crime.
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Gentlemen’s Massage Club ,the Manships
Lawyer wants decision on Gentlemen’s Massage Club, Dartmouth, overturned
Manship Holdings, Moncton company
Owner 55 year old Wayne George Manship.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/857556.html
2007 09 07
Lawyer wants decision on Gentlemen’s Massage Club overturned
Manship Holdings, Moncton company
Owner 55 year old Wayne George Manship.
By JENNIFER STEWART Court Reporter
A decision to allow a Dartmouth massage parlour to continue operating despite allegations it violated several municipal bylaws was unreasonable and should be overturned, a lawyer for the city argued in court Wednesday.
If that isn’t possible, Randolph Kinghorne said, the court should at least correct the point of law that "creates an awkward precedent" for the city in prosecuting future bylaw violations.
"I think the judge is a bit off-base on where the burden of proof lies," Mr. Kinghorne said, referring to Judge Castor Williams, who ruled last year that the Gentlemen’s Massage Club on Wyse Road could continue doing business.
Manship Holdings, the Moncton company that runs the massage parlour, was accused of violating four municipal bylaws relating to home-based businesses. The charges included having too much signage, having too large a sign, having more than one employee who didn’t live on the premises and using more than 25 per cent of the building for the business.
Judge Williams heard arguments on the matter in Dartmouth provincial court in April 2006, but the case never went to trial as the judge opted for summary judgment in favour of Manship Holdings.
Changes to the bylaws for that area of the city went into effect in 2000.
In his written decision, Judge Williams agreed with defence lawyer Mark Knox that because the company had been operating since the mid-1970s, its right to continue operating as a legal, non-conforming premises was grandfathered.
Mr. Kinghorne appealed that decision in Nova Scotia Supreme Court on Wednesday.
He argued that Judge Williams was too quick to dismiss evidence that would have backed up the city’s case, including information on the size of the company’s signs and its floor plan.
Mr. Knox, on the other hand, suggested that there were simply too many shortcomings in the city’s case for it to proceed to trial.
A written decision on the appeal will be released at a later date.
The bylaw violations were laid in March 2006 after a series of police raids in which a number of prostitution-related charges were laid against owner Wayne George Manship.
( Wayne is the son of Moncton's George Manship and former owner of Moncton's own Gentleman's Massage Club )
The 55-year-old, who lived in and ran the establishment, was charged with living off the avails of prostitution, keeping a common bawdy house, working in a common bawdy house, exercising control over a prostitute and operating a premises for the purpose of prostitution.
He pleaded guilty to the first two charges on Dec. 22 and received a six-month conditional sentence. The other charges were dismissed.
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Taking a bite out of crime , or something like that...
I post enough Doom and Gloom so this is cute..
Man charged with stealing false teeth from another’s mouth during fight
2007 09 21
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
YORKTOWN, Ind. — A man accused of snatching another man’s false teeth straight from his mouth during a fight has been charged with robbery.
Robert Stahl, 62, was charged Thursday in Delaware Circuit Court with felony robbery and battery causing bodily injury, a misdemeanour. If convicted of robbery, he could face two to eight years in prison.
Billie Townsend, 56, told police he went to a bar on July 27 to pay Stahl money he owed him, then Stahl asked him to go outside and started punching him repeatedly.
During the fight, Stahl allegedly put Townsend in a headlock and removed his false teeth. “He said, ’You ain’t getting these back,”’ Townsend told police.
Stahl did not attend Thursday’s hearing and prosecutors did not seek a warrant for his arrest. Another hearing was scheduled for Oct. 22.
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Massive drug bust in Truro
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2007 09 27
Nova Scotia
Massive drug bust in Truro
Cops arrest 18, seize homes, cars in raid
TRURO — Investigators say it will be the end of the week before they’re able to give an exact tally of the quantity of drugs and other items seized from 10 residences in raids early Wednesday morning.
The major sweep of what police say is an organized crime cell that distributed drugs and illegal tobacco in the Colchester County region took place in simultaneous raids at about 6 a.m.
RCMP emergency response teams from as far away as Ottawa took part in the co-ordinated effort. By the end of the day, the operation had resulted in 18 arrests and 50 charges relating to trafficking in cocaine, crack cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana, possession of unmarked, untaxed and unstamped tobacco and possession of two sawed-off shotguns.
The operation was nine months in the making, and officers searching the residences in Truro, North River, East Mountain, Kennetcook and Onslow and one in Hants County could hardly keep the smiles off their faces.
"Although based and very active in Colchester County and the town of Truro, we are confident today’s arrests will also see a disruption in the access to these illegal items in other parts of the province of Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada," Chief Supt. Tom Bennett of Nova Scotia RCMP said during a news conference Wednesday afternoon at Truro police headquarters.
"Reducing the threat and impact of organized crime remains one of the RCMP’s top strategic priorities." Mr. Bennett said he wasn’t able to say if the arrested group has any biker gang links.
"I can’t say if there’s a direct connection to the Hells Angels," he said. "I know this particular group distributed for this region."
Officers seized a large number of luxury vehicles as well as high-end 4x4 trucks, Harley-Davidson motorcycles, ATVs and snowmobiles for a total haul so far of 32 vehicles.
An undisclosed amount of money was also confiscated and two sawed-off shotguns were seized, one of which was loaded when police pushed their way into a Truro residence.
Neighbours near one of three houses police seized under federal proceeds of crime legislation were reluctant to speak with reporters. "You can just stop right there and turn around," said one woman who was approached in East Mountain on Wednesday morning.
The property housing the Like New Car Wash at 511 Jollytown Rd. in East Mountain features a four-bay garage with a paved driveway and is assessed at $235,100. It is owned by Janice Lynds. Police took a large number of off-road vehicles, motorcycles and trucks from the residence.
Property at 191 Hiram Lynds Rd. in North River is assessed at $182,400 and is owned by Randy Lynds. It was also seized, as were two trailer homes owned by Curtis Lynds at 677 Old Tatamagouche Rd. in Onslow Mountain.
Court appearances have been scheduled for Oct. 24 for many of the 18 people facing charges. Six people appeared in Truro provincial court Wednesday afternoon.
Curtis Blair Lynds, 31, of Hiram Lynds Road in North River, Christopher James Lynds, 30, of Jollytown Road in East Mountain and Jeffery Elmer Moxsom, 23, of Farnham Road in Bible Hill will return to court for bail hearings next Tuesday.
Allan Michael Paul, 25, of Marshall Drive in Truro Heights was remanded overnight and will be back in court today for a bail hearing.
Johnathan Craig Burgoyne, 28, of Kemptown Road in Kemptown was also kept in custody and will return to court today when he is expected to be released.
Sherrill Leigh MacKeigan, 26, of Prince Street in Truro was freed on strict conditions and is to return to court on Oct. 24.
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Drug raid one of the largest in N.S. history
Like New Car Care in East Mountain, Colchester Co.,
Neighbours long suspected something was wrong at the mansion on the hill.
The mansion, as people along Hiram Lynds Road in rural Colchester County referred to the tidy, well-kept hillside compound of three buildings where Curtis Blair Lynds lived, was one of 10 properties raided during a sweeping, joint operation by the RCMP, Truro Police and Halifax Regional Police after a nine-month investigation of a large-scale cocaine, marijuana and illegal tobacco trafficking operation that police say had tentacles spread across the province.
Heavily armed Emergency Response Team members simultaneously raided the homes at 6 a.m. yesterday. It's believed about 200 police officers were involved in the operation.
The amount of drugs seized hasn't yet been released, but police say this is one of the largest investigations and seizures of property undertaken in the province.
Eight properties were seized along with 32 high-end vehicles and other items as part of an Integrated Proceeds of Crime investigation. Police also seized a significant amount of cash.
Four guns were also seized, one loaded, including two sawed-off shotguns.
Police charged 18 people - 13 men and five women - with trafficking cocaine, crack cocaine, marijuana, hashish, ecstasy and illegal tobacco products.
One man was arrested in the trunk of a car where he was apparently hiding while trying to elude police roadblocks.
Two of the accused, Curtis and Chris Lynds, are nephews of Jeffrey Lynds, reported to be a full-patch member of the Hells Angels. Jeffrey Lynds has not been charged.
In 2003, he was sentenced to three years in prison after selling 1,000 tablets of the drug MDMA to an undercover police agent. He was released on parole in 2004 on the condition he stay away from criminal associates.
Police say it's too early in the investigation to determine if the Hells Angels or some other organized crime group are involved in the drug ring.
RCMP Chief Supt. Tom Bennett described the accused as an "organized crime group" responsible for the sale and distribution of drugs and illegal smokes across Colchester County and beyond.
Asked if this puts them out of business, Bennett said, "We hope."
"We are confident today's arrests will also see a disruption in access to these illegal items in other part of the province and Atlantic Canada," he said.
Near where police had set up road blocks and were busy cataloguing evidence, some neighbours said they were glad the police were finally moving on the group.
One woman said the group's been operating for years and was well known among locals. "It's about time something was done," one neighbour of the Hiram Lynds Road property said. "We always knew something was going on up there."
Something was indeed going on.
Two security cameras attached to power poles near the large country property in North River kept watch on the driveway.
A second set of cameras was hidden near the intersection with Highway 311.
Stay away from 'the mansion'
One neighbour, who asked not to be identified, said she has always instructed her children to stay away from "the mansion"
"Everyone who lives out here calls the guy who owns it The Businessman of North River," she said. "But nobody's too sure what he does."
Police were also busy a few kilometres away on East Mountain loading seized vehicles on to an automobile carrier on Jollytown Road.
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The Jollytown Road property, including a five-bay garage, is listed as the business address of Curtis Lynds's brother, Christopher James Lynds. The business operates under the name Like New Car Care..
Police trucked away several customized pickup trucks, including a new Dodge Ram 1500 4X4 with custom chrome wheels sporting the company name and logo on the back window.
Chris Lynds's neighbours weren't willing to talk about the police operation or the suspected drug ring.
But one man said he was suspicious of the operation because of the amount of traffic headed to the house on the rural road near Onslow.
A total of 18 people face as many as 50 drug trafficking charges in connection with the Truro-area mega-raid yesterday morning. Police say more charges and more arrests are possible.
Curtis Blair Lynds, 31; Christopher James Lynds, 30; Jonathan Craig Burgoyne, 28; Sherrill Leigh MacKeigan, 26; Jeffrey Elmer Moxsom, 22; Shawn Kilpatrick, 28; Brian Edward Seeton, 31; Kameron David Johnson, 24; Rex Marshall, 60; Margaret Rose Turner, 50; Albert Rose George, 38; Yvonne Agnes George, 37; Allan Michael Paul, 25; Amanda Lynn Beth Rowe, 27; Georgina Mildred Blenkhorn, 50; Stephen Colin Ryan, 46; Gordon Allison Smith, 30; Timothy Ettinger, 47.
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