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Another Victim Hurt In Winnipeg Canada Police Officer Derek Harvey-Zenk’s Fatal Drunken Wreck
July 3rd, 2008
WINNIPEG, CANADA — An inquiry into a controversial plea bargain for an off-duty policeman who killed a Manitoba woman in a car crash has heard from another victim for the first time.
Crystal Taman, 40, died in February 2005 when her small car was rear-ended at a red light by a pickup truck that belonged to Derek Harvey-Zenk, a Winnipeg police constable who later resigned.
The inquiry heard Wednesday that the force of the pickup truck pushed Taman’s vehicle into the back of Kathie Beattie’s car.
Beattie escaped without broken bones, but she said the crash caused back problems that still trouble her to this day, and she lost her job because the vehicle she was driving was a company car.
Beattie, the wife of another police officer, said it’s unfortunate she did not pay closer attention after the crash.
Read MoreToronto Canada Police Officer Roy Preston’s Conviction And Tiny Slap On The Wrist Sentence For Beating Unarmed Refugee Upheld On Appeal
July 2nd, 2008
TORONTO, CANADA - The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld a jail sentence for a Toronto police officer who was caught on camera sucker-punching a Somali refugee.
A 30-day sentence for Constable Roy Preston was “if anything, on the lenient side,” as the officer “took part in a serious unprovoked assault on a civilian and then, to cover up his involvement, attempted to fabricate evidence that could have led to the conviction of an innocent man,” the court said in a written judgment yesterday.
Constable Preston was convicted in 2005 in a provincial court of assaulting Somali refugee Jama Jama in a Rexdale parking lot after a Caribana party in 2003, and in 2005, the sentence was upheld by an Ontario Superior Court judge.
The appeal court rejected an argument put forward by Constable Preston’s lawyer, Gary Clewley, that the trial judge did not adequately take into account the impact that imprisonment would have on Constable Preston’s career as a police officer.
Read MoreCrazed Gatineau Canada Police Officer Beat, Pepper Sprayed, And Then Shot And Killed Unarmed Man - Also Pointed Gun At Man’s Elderly Mother
June 30th, 2008
GATINEAU, CANADA - A Gatineau police officer shot an unarmed man three times, killing him in broad daylight yesterday.
According to the victim’s family, the police officer beat David LeClair, 35, with his billy club, pepper sprayed him and then shot him from four feet away.
Gatineau police referred calls to the Surete du Quebec, who were saying little yesterday. They did confirm they are investigating the officer’s conduct and will forward the file to the Crown’s office.
But the family provided a much more detailed description of the incident.
They said not only did the officer shoot an unarmed LeClair, the officer also pointed his gun at the man’s elderly mother.
It all started when one officer arrived at the 16 Conroy St. home shortly after 11 a.m. He said he was there to arrest LeClair for an assault on his on-off-again girlfriend.
Read More$550,000 Lawsuit Charges Edmonton Canada Police With Attacking And Arresting Lawyer And His Son After They Asked Police Officers Who Threatened Them With False Arrest For Their Badge Numbers And Photographing Them
June 19th, 2008
EDMONTON, CANADA - An Edmonton lawyer and his son have launched a $550,000 lawsuit against city police, alleging they were assaulted and arrested by officers during the 2006 Stanley Cup playoff celebrations on Whyte Avenue.
In a statement of claim filed in Court of Queen’s Bench on June 6, Brian Fish and his son Nigel allege the “high-handed and egregious” conduct by officers caused them “anxiety, humiliation and injury to their dignity.”
The lawsuit, which names Const. Tori Tagg, Const. Denise Turkawski, Const. Wayne Tabb, two unidentified officers, police Chief Mike Boyd and former police chief Darryl da Costa as defendants, also alleges the police failed to properly investigate complaints initiated by Fish and his son.
According to the statement of claim, Nigel Fish and three friends were walking on Whyte Avenue on June 17, 2006, when one friend was violently arrested after stepping off the sidewalk to high-five a passenger in a stopped car.
Read MoreQuebec Canada Prison Chaplain Beats Speeding Ticket With The Old “Rushing To A Bleeding Penis” Tale - “The Court Bought The Story?”
June 19th, 2008
QUEBEC, CANADA - Quebec’s Jewish chaplain for prisons got a speeding ticket quashed after convincing a judge he’d been rushing to a medical emergency: a baby boy who was bleeding from a ritual circumcision.
“It wasn’t like I was going 120 kilometres an hour - I was going a reasonable speed,” Jacob Lévy told Judge Alain St-Pierre in Outremont municipal court Monday, where he went to contest the ticket.
After listening to the rabbi’s story, the judge said Lévy had proven the “necessity” of why he’d been speeding, and threw out the ticket.
Lévy, who used to be grand rabbi of Geneva and also lived in France, leads the Sephardic congregation at Beth Rambam synagogue in Côte St. Luc. Trained in Jerusalem as a mohel, the Hebrew word for circumciser, Lévy has been practising the ritual procedure for 30 years. His first case was his own son, he told St-Pierre at the Van Horne Ave. courtroom, where he’d brought along his surgical kit as proof of his trade.
Read MoreHero Found Not Guilty Of Murder After Shooting And Killing Laval Canada Police Officer Daniel Tessier As He Invaded His Home With No Knock Warrant
June 14th, 2008
LONGUEUIL, CANADA — A jury has found Basil Parasiris not guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Laval police Const. Daniel Tessier.
Parasiris appeared relieved after the verdict was read out. His wife, Penny Gounis, gasped, “Oh my God!” and his sister began to weep.
The jury made the decision in its fourth day of deliberation.
Shortly after 5 a.m. on March 2, 2007, Tessier was the second of nine Laval police officers who stormed into Parasiris’s home after they smashed in the front door with a small battering ram.
The raid was part of an investigation of five drug traffickers who were selling cocaine in Laval.
The Laval police morality-drug squad suspected Parasiris was supplying the drug dealers with cocaine and were hoping to find a large quantity of the drug inside. Because of their suspicions they obtained a search warrant allowing them to make a so-called “dynamic entry,” designed to catch people off-guard before they can destroy evidence.
Read MoreWinnipeg Canada Police Officer Hospitalized After Being Pepper Sprayed
June 13th, 2008
WINNIPEG, CANADA - A Winnipeg police officer was taken to hospital early Tuesday evening after he was pepper sprayed in the city’s West Broadway neighbourhood.
The officer was looking for a suspect with outstanding charges in the 100-block of Maryland Avenue, police said Wednesday morning.
When he tried to arrest someone, a short foot chase ensued, ending when the officer was pepper sprayed near the corner of Furby Street and Sara Avenue.
“We just saw the cop running, and then he tackled the guy and I guess he got maced then,” said Cassie Little, who was on the street near the scene.
Little said the officer’s face looked orange in colour after he was sprayed.
Monica Tanner looked outside her house when she heard screams, and said officers ran to her house and used her garden hose to wash the officer’s face.
Read MoreNewfoundland Canada Police Officer Supt. Bob Garland Quits Amid Investigation
June 9th, 2008
NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA - The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary police officer at the centre of a misconduct investigation in the western Newfoundland community Corner Brook is stepping down.
The RNC confirmed late Wednesday afternoon that Supt. Bob Garland has tendered his resignation effective July 2. Garland is being investigated by the Ontario Provincial Police after another officer made a complaint against him. The nature of the complaint has not been made public.
The misconduct complaint was filed on May 16 and, within a matter of days, OPP investigators were in Corner Brook conducting an investigation.
RNC Chief Joe Browne confirmed Tuesday that an investigation is taking place, and it could lead to criminal charges.
The RNC gave no reason Wednesday for Garland’s resignation.
University Of British Columbia Canada Campus Security Duped By Thief Into Ignoring Non-Working Cameras And Burglar Alarms During $2+ Million Robbery
June 5th, 2008
VANCOUVER, CANADA - An experienced jewelry thief may have hoodwinked the University of British Columbia’s campus security by telling them to ignore security alarms on the night of last month’s multi-million dollar heist at the Museum of Anthropology, CBC News has learned.
The prime suspect and possible mastermind of one of the biggest art heists in Canadian history is a Vancouver thief who specializes in hitting high-end jewelry stores by neutralizing their sophisticated security systems, police sources have told the CBC.
The suspect was out of jail the night the museum break-in occurred on the UBC campus near Vancouver, and the techniques used in that heist fit his normal operating procedure, the sources said.
Four hours before the break-in on May 23, two or three key surveillance cameras at the Museum of Anthropology mysteriously went off-line.
Read MoreHalifax Canada Police Officer Don Ranni Receives A Slap On The Wrist After Drunken Wreck
May 31st, 2008
HALIFAX, CANADA - The president of MADD Canada has a problem with the conditional discharge handed to a Halifax police officer last week for impaired driving.
“This sentence was a breach of public trust,” Margaret Miller said in a weekend interview.
“Everybody needs to be treated equally, all impaired drivers. He should have got the standard sentence with a fine and should have a criminal record. I don’t think there should have been any exception made.
“If anything, because he’s a police officer, he should have been held even more accountable for his actions. They almost should have been a little harder on him because he knows better. He goes to these crash scenes and sees the death and devastation caused by impaired driving. How can he possibly do this?”
Read MoreYork Region Canada Police Officer Cory Weick Arrested, Suspended, Charged After Drunken Wreck
May 31st, 2008
YORK REGION, CANADA - A York Regional Police officer has been suspended after being charged with impaired driving.
The charge resulted from a single vehicle accident on Yonge Street south of Persechini Drive in Newmarket at about 1 a.m. Wednesday.
Const. Cory Weick, 29, of Newmarket, is charged with impaired driving and driving with a blood-alcohol level exceeding 80 mg.
He was off-duty at the time of the crash and has been with York Regional Police since 2001.
Const. Weick has been suspended with pay and is to appear in court in Newmarket June 17. Appeared Here
Nutcase/Dumbass Toronto Canada Mayor David Miller Wants To Close Recreational Shooting Centers Because They Lead To “…People Being Shot And Killed On The Streets…” - Duh!
May 28th, 2008
TORONTO, CANADA - Mayor David Miller wants to close recreational shooting ranges in Toronto, along with giving the city power to block gun manufacturers and wholesalers from opening new plants or warehouses.
“Nobody can deny that hobby directly results in people being shot and killed on the streets of our city,” Miller said of sport shooting yesterday, amid debate on a possible gun bylaw.
Canadian Olympic pistol shooter and downtown resident Avianna Chao begs to differ. She says that if Miller gets his way, it could mean an end to her sport – and it won’t make the streets one bit safer.
Miller wants to terminate leases with two gun clubs that have shooting ranges on city property, one at Union Station, the other at Don Montgomery community centre.
Chao, who will head to Beijing this summer to compete for Canada at the Olympics, began shooting at Don Montgomery and now trains primarily at the Union range.
Read MoreJudge Tosses Evidence, Rules That Toronto Canada Police Used Excessive Force In Taser Attack On Motorist, Forcing Man To Lie Face Down On Broken Class - Officers Under Investigation For Lying
May 27th, 2008
TORONTO, CANADA - A judge has ruled that city police used excessive force and violated the Charter rights of a young man who was Tasered and forced to lie face down on broken glass during an arrest in the city’s club district.
“I believe that the Taser’s implementation at that point was premature and excessive,” Justice William Bassel said yesterday.
Bassel said he was “mystified” why police would force a suspect, Irshad Ahmed, onto broken glass after stopping a car on Spadina Ave. in February 2006. “To continue prosecution against Ahmed for any charge flowing from events at Spadina would cause irreparable prejudice to the reputation of the administration of justice.”
Any evidence stemming from that event will not be allowed during proceedings, he ruled, “to foster and maintain respect in and for core Charter values.”
But charges stemming from an earlier confrontation between police and Ahmed and another young man will be upheld, he added.
Read MoreMississauga Ontario Canada Police Officer Roger Yeo Found Guility After Pestering 7th Grade Schoolgirls
May 24th, 2008
MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO, CANADA - A Canadian police officer in Mississauga, Ontario, has been found guilty by a tribunal of repeatedly asking young schoolgirls for directions.
Constable Roger Yeo, 38, was charged under the Police Services Act in 2005 after an undercover officer who tailed him in Mississauga, west of Toronto, corroborated the complaints of several Grade 7 girls, the Toronto Star reported Thursday.
Peel Regional Police Staff Superintendent Roman Boychuk delivered his 44-page decision Wednesday night that found Yeo guilty of discreditable conduct.
“There is no doubt in my mind … Yeo’s conduct has fallen below the expectations of society,” Boychuk said. “Adult male strangers repeatedly driving through residential areas and approaching young females is potentially very serious.”
Yeo has been suspended with pay since being charged and will be sentenced Oct. 6. Penalties range from demotion to dismissal, the newspaper said. Appeared Here
Laws Don’t Apply To Ontario Canada Police Officers Under Nutcase Police Commissioner Julian Fantino
May 17th, 2008
He successfully lobbied for changes to provincial laws to permit police to seize a vehicle and suspend someone’s licence immediately for a week if they were caught driving more than 50 kilometres an hour over the speed limit. And last week, the Commissioner and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty unveiled a new OPP Cessna 206 to help in enforcing traffic laws on the province’s highways.
“Everyone must obey the law,” Commissioner Fantino said.
It appears, however, that some of his officers are not getting the message. Two OPP officers have been charged this year with street racing offences, while on duty and driving their cruisers. Constable Lloyd Tapp, 43, was charged with two counts under the Highway Traffic Act after he was allegedly driving more than 50 kilometres over the speed limit on Highway 35-115, southwest of Peterborough.
If Convicted After Fiery Drunke Wreck, Will Alberta Canada Police Officer Douglas Kurtis Brown Keep Job?
May 15th, 2008
EDMONTON, CANADA — A fiery crash allegedly involving an off-duty Alberta policeman is raising questions about whether officers should be allowed to keep their jobs if they are convicted of impaired driving.
Constable Douglas Kurtis Brown, 29, of Edmonton was charged Sunday after a collision in which a teen was severely burned when the truck he was driving was broadsided by a car and burst into flames. The teen also broke a collarbone, and two others in the truck were hurt.
Constable Brown is charged with five counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm, five counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm and one count of driving with a blood alcohol level above the legal limit.
Edmonton Police Chief Mike Boyd said Monday that officers who are convicted of drunk driving do not necessarily lose their jobs.
Read MoreCost To Taxpayers Nears $300,000 After Toronto Police Officer Accepts Free Coffee From Store, Charges Employee With Stealing $2 Coin
May 14th, 2008
TORONTO, CANADA - The case of a pregnant woman who was fired from a Tim Hortons store in Toronto for allegedly stealing a toonie will go to the Ontario Court of Appeal on Wednesday.
Charlene Walsh gets her day in court a week after a single mother of four was fired from a Tim Hortons outlet in London, Ont., for giving a free Timbit to a baby.
Walsh was fired from the Tim Hortons she worked at in June 1999, when she was seven months pregnant.
The franchise managers and owner alleged she stole the $2 coin, but Walsh has maintained she earned the money in tips.
“When they earned tips, sometimes they would leave them in the [cash register] because they have limited change, then later on take them out,” her lawyer Ernest Guiste said Tuesday.
Police charged Walsh with theft under $5,000, although the Crown later withdrew the charge.
Read MoreHomeless Man Drops His Pants In Nova Scotia Canada Courtroom, Asks Judge Barbara Beach To Blow Him, Latter Asks Clerk If She Wants To See His Junk
May 13th, 2008
NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA - A psychiatric assessment has been ordered for a homeless man who dropped his pants in a Halifax courtroom Friday and invited the judge to perform oral sex on him.
Joel David Arseneau, 40, was being arraigned in Halifax provincial court before Judge Barbara Beach on two charges of breaching probation or court orders when he let his pants fall to the floor, displaying his underwear.
Sheriff’s deputies hustled Mr. Arseneau out of the courtroom. As they were taking him downstairs to the holding cells, they received word that Judge Beach was prepared to proceed with the arraignment as long as the defendant was willing to keep his pants up.
Read MoreEdmonton Canada Police Officer Douglas Kurtis Brown Arrested, Charged After Running Red Light, “Spectacular” Drunken Wreck
May 12th, 2008
EDMONTON, CANADA - An off-duty city cop has been charged with drunk driving after a spectacular crash that sent three people to hospital.
Const. Douglas Kurtis Brown, 29, has been charged with three counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm, three counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm, and driving with a blood alcohol level over .08 after a BMW T-boned a Ford F150 on the 75 Street overpass above Whitemud Drive around 2:15 a.m. Sunday.
The car is also believed to have run a red light and might have been speeding.
The pickup’s driver, 18-year-old Robert Wasyliw, suffered a broken collarbone and burned back that his family says will likely require skin grafts.
Brown is a downtown division officer who has been with the Edmonton Police Service for three years. He has been suspended with pay.
Police are upset that one of their own has been charged with drunk driving.
Read MoreWindsor Canada Police Officer’s Booty Call Under Investigation After Police Radio Recording Surfaces On the Internet
May 10th, 2008
A Windsor police officer has been placed on administrative duties after an intimate conversation over the police radio was posted on the internet.
Superiors are taking the matter seriously and have launched an internal investigation - probing the officer’s conduct - and looking into whether police equipment was misused.
While the chief says the conversation might have been meant to be private - it’s now in the public domain — and has become an embarrassment to the service.
John Lewis reported on what’s being dubbed the “Windsor police booty call” tonight on A-Channel News at Six.
Nutcase Canadian RCMP Police Officers Attacked Delirious Senior Citizen In Hospital Bed With Taser Weapons - Shot Him Three Times
May 9th, 2008
KAMLOOPS, BC, CANADA - An elderly man in Kamloops, B.C., was zapped three times on the torso by a police stun gun while lying on his hospital bed, CBC News has learned.
Frank Lasser, 82, appeared fragile Thursday when he showed the Taser marks on his body and talked about the ordeal he went through Saturday.
“They [police] should have known I had bypass surgery,” Lasser told CBC News.
Lasser has had heart surgery and needs to carry an apparatus to supply oxygen at all times. He was in the Royal Inland Hospital Saturday due to pneumonia but has since been released.
RCMP said nurses called police after Lasser became delirious and pulled a knife out of his pocket.
Lasser told CBC News that he sometimes becomes delusional when he can’t breathe properly. He said he couldn’t explain why he refused to let go of the knife even after the Mounties arrived.
Read MoreVeteran Toronto Canada Police Officer Charged With Impaired Driving After Paking In Intersection
May 6th, 2008
TOTONTO, CANADA - An off-duty Toronto Police Service officer has been arrested and charged with impaired driving.
Witnesses reported seeing the officer stop his private vehicle in the middle of the intersection of Victoria Park Ave. and Consumers Rd. around 3 a.m. Friday.
After the car did not move, a bystander approached the vehicle and contacted police.
Const. Adam Lourenco, 31, of Aurora has worked on the force for six years, and most recently served in 32 Division.
Crackhead Ottawa Canada Police Officer Kevin Hall Wants His Job Back After Stealing Cocaine From Evidence - Shoplifing Cop Alec Moraru Returns To Work
May 4th, 2008
OTTAWA, CANADA - Reinstating a cop who stole drugs from an evidence lockup would “severely” damage the reputation of the Ottawa Police Service, the force intends to argue at an appeal hearing next month.
Documents recently filed at the Ottawa courthouse suggest the police force will continue hammering the point that it can’t accommodate Const. Kevin Hall, who has been ordered to leave the service.
After his appeal failed at the Ontario Civilian Commission on Police Service, Hall is asking the divisional court to put him back on duty.
The hearing comes on the heels of a commission decision to reinstate Const. Alec Moraru, who was previously ordered off the Ottawa police force for a shoplifting incident, which was tied to a post-traumatic stress disorder.
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It’s unknown if Moraru’s successful appeal will favour Hall, who has previously argued that his drug addiction is a disability.
Read MoreStudent Fined $628 For Sitting In Park After Taking Pictures Of Crazed Montreal Canada Police Officers
April 25th, 2008
MONTREAL, CANADA - Most people who walk by Émilie Gamelin Park downtown see its many granite surfaces as an invitation to sit and relax.
Dozens were doing just that in the sun yesterday and ever since the park opened in 1992.
But as a Concordia University student found out Saturday, Montreal police, if they so choose, can hit you with a $628 ticket for nothing more menacing than sitting on a ledge.
Brendan Colin Jones, 25, was sitting on a park ledge on de Maisonneuve Blvd. just east of Berri St. At one point, he swung around southward and his feet were on grass behind the ledge.
The Victoria native’s ticket cited his offending behaviour as “using urban equipment for uses other than those intended.”
Montreal police Sgt. Ian Lafrenière said Jones was told “several times” that he was sitting “somewhere else than on a park bench” and in so doing was guilty of an infraction.
Read MoreOttawa Canada Police Officers Entered Apartment With Guns Drawn To Investigate Children Playing Video Games, Handcuffed Noisy 10 Year Old Boy
April 22nd, 2008
OTTAWA, CANADA - The parents of a 10-year-old boy who was handcuffed and placed in the back seat of a police cruiser for being too noisy intend to file a complaint against Ottawa police on Thursday, alleging at least one officer went too far in how he treated their son.
Thomasz and Santana Gurzynski say police drew their firearms before entering their Norberry Crescent apartment and scratched the back of their son, Lucasz, while forcing him to sit down for questioning without an adult present.
Mrs. Gurzynski, 35, believes it was an over-reaction by police, who were responding to a neighbour’s complaint that the Grade 5 student and five friends were playing video games too loudly and play fighting with wooden sticks.
Read MoreHamilton Ontario Canada Police Set Man On Fire With Their Taser Weapons
April 19th, 2008
HAMILTON, ONTARIO, CANADA - A Hamilton man Tasered by police is in hospital after the stun gun ignited a “flammable object” in his pants, burning him.
The incident is under review by Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit, which probes all police-related deaths and serious injuries. According to the SIU, police were called to a Queenston Road apartment in Hamilton’s east end around 9 p.m. Thursday.
“Three officers went there in response to a disturbance call,” said SIU spokesman Frank Phillips yesterday. “During the interaction, an officer discharged his Taser. A flammable object the man had in the waistband of his pants ignited.”
The man, 31, was burned on his hand and thigh. He was taken to Hamilton General Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Tasers are electrical discharge weapons that incapacitate a person by affecting the nervous system and muscle control. Hamilton police discharged their Tasers 50 times last year.
Read MoreVancouver Canada Transit Police Shoot Passengers With Taser Weapons For Not Paying Fares
April 17th, 2008
VANCOUVER, CANADA — The country’s only armed transit police have been tasering passengers who try to avoid paying fares.
According to documents provided in response to a Freedom of Information request, police patrolling public transit in the Metro Vancouver area have used tasers 10 times in the past 18 months, including five occasions when victims had been accosted for riding free.
In one incident, a non-paying passenger was tasered after he held onto a railing on the SkyTrain platform and refused to let go.
“After several warnings to the subject to stop resisting arrest and the subject failing to comply with the officers’ commands, the taser was deployed and the subject was taken into control,” said the report provided by TransLink, the region’s transit authority.
An internal review of the incident concluded that the action taken by transit police officers complied with the force’s policy and was within guidelines “set out in the National Use of Force Model,” the report said.
Read MoreCrazed Toronto Canada Police Chief Bill Blair Wants To Steal DNA From Everyone Arrested
April 12th, 2008
TORONTO, CANADA - The DNA debate is flaring up because Toronto’s top cop wants to make it a requirement for all those charged with a crime to submit a blood sample for the National DNA Data Bank.
As of now only people convicted of murder and sexual assault are forced to provide a blood sample.
Toronto Police Chief, Bill Blair, has called DNA a “revolutionary crime-fighting tool.” He used the Holly Jones murder case as a perfect example of how DNA can be used to solve crimes.
He hopes that, as soon as 2011, police across Canada will have the power to demand blood samples from anyone charged and not just those convicted of serious crimes.
Blair said taking a sample from suspects - even people charged with shoplifting- would allow police to immediately check DNA from unsolved mysteries.
Read MoreBarrie Ontario Canada Police Officer Chris Allport Charged After Running Redlight With Police Van While Taling On Cellphone And Hitting SUV
April 3rd, 2008
BARRIE, ONT., CANADA - A Barrie city police officer has been charged with careless driving after the police transport van he was driving collided with a sport-utility vehicle in the east-end Sunday.
Charged is Const. Chris Allport, who has been with Barrie’s police force for three-and-a-half years.
“Our investigation has shown he was operating a cellphone and ran a red light,’ said Sgt. Dave Goodbrand of Barrie city police. “It’s the combination of the two (which led to the careless driving charge).”
Goodbrand says Const. Allport has co-operated with police in the crash investigation. His statements, and those of witnesses, led to the charge.
Careless driving is an offence under the Highway Traffic Act. Allport has the choice of either pleading guilty or going to court on this matter.
His police van was southbound on St. Vincent Street when it collided with a GMC Jimmy that was eastbound on Grove Street at about 3:30 p.m. on Sunday.
Read MoreWest Shore Canada RCMP Police Officers Assaulted Handcuffed Child In Back Of Patrol Car With Taser Weapons For Curfew Violation
April 2nd, 2008
CANADA - West Shore RCMP officers twice used a Taser on a handcuffed 15-year-old boy while he sat in the back seat of their cruiser after being arrested for violating his curfew last month.
Lawyer Tom Morino, who is representing the teen, said his client told him one officer acted like it was a joke and even laughed.
Although Morino admits the teen has anger problems, he argues there was no need to use the electro-shock device on him, given his slight build — he weighs 135 pounds and is five-foot-10 — and that he was already cuffed and in the cruiser.
“You have to be a blind fool not to believe many police are using the Taser as an attitude-adjustment device,” Morino said yesterday.
The Youth Criminal Justice Act forbids identification of the teen, who is awaiting trial on a mischief charge.
Read MoreFather Cleared After Dumbass Ontario Canada Police Charge Man With Assault - Grabbed His Daughter By The Shirt To Get Her Away From Drug Dealer Boyfriend
April 2nd, 2008
ONTARIO, CANADA - When a 15-year-old girl sneaked out of the house for the umpteenth time to meet her drug-dealing boyfriend at a party, her father went after her in his truck.
He spotted her at a pay phone near their home outside Picton, Ont., and told her to get in. She refused, and he grabbed her by the shirt and shoved her into the truck. They headed home, but the girl took off again and made it to the party. The parents managed to get their daughter home later, but only after calling police for help.
The shirt-grabbing incident didn’t end there. The father, who can’t be named to protect his daughter’s identity, was charged with assault, setting off a two-year legal battle that tested the limits of how far a parent can go to discipline a teen under the Criminal Code.
Read MoreWitness Says Windsor Canada Police Officers Brian Lacroix And John Bechard Are Lying About Beating And Killing Man
April 1st, 2008
WINDSOR, CANADA - Bryan Dukic did not run away from two police officers and did not hit them as they tried to place him under arrest before striking him several times, a witness told a coroner’s inquest Thursday.
Brian Lacroix, Dukic’s friend, said Dukic never struck either Const. Richard Sieberer or Const. John Ryan, who testified that Dukic was combative and hit them during the arrest on April 5, 2006, several hours before Dukic died in hospital from a ruptured spleen and internal bleeding.
Under questioning from coroner’s counsel, Fred Porter, Lacroix said Ryan approached Dukic from behind, grabbed one of his arms and threw him to the ground after identifying Dukic as a disqualified driver behind a Russell Street apartment building. He said Dukic was startled and may have jumped out of the way, but was not resisting arrest.
Read MoreGuelph Ontario Canada Judge Bruce Frazer Sentences Man To 60 Days In Jail For Asking Women To Kick Him
March 31st, 2008
GUELPH, ONTARIO, CANADA - A man who claimed to be acting out of “curiosity” when he asked seven different women to kick him in the groin was sentenced yesterday to 60 days in jail.
“I cannot be satisfied that you do not presently pose a risk to the community,” Justice Bruce Frazer told 28-year-old Jarrett Loft, who had pleaded guilty to one count of mischief to property.
The judge allowed Loft to serve his sentence on weekends so he does not lose his machinist job.
Court had heard on seven different occasions last April and May Loft approached women using trails in city parks and asked them to kick him in the groin.
One of the women, afraid of what the man might do if she refused, kicked him repeatedly.
Loft, an Oshawa native who moved to Guelph several years ago, thanked her and left on his bike.
Read MoreRetired Veteran Toronto Canada Police Officer David Gordon Robinson Receives A Tiny Slap On The Wrist For Child Pornography
March 26th, 2008
ONTARIO, CANADA - A 71-year-old retired police officer will serve a 15-day intermittent jail sentence as well as 18 months probation for possession of child pornography.
David Gordon Robinson of Cobourg was sentenced in Cobourg’s Ontario Court of Justice Tuesday. He had pleaded guilty in Cobourg court Jan. 21 to the charge, which was laid July 3, 2007.
Crown Attorney David Thompson said an employee at Midtown Computers called Cobourg Police about the accused who had dropped off his computer tower off for repair.
He was arrested later that day when he arrived at the computer shop to pick up his equipment.
The photos found were predominantly of “pubescent boys” and “boys’ sexual organs,” Thompson said.
A report was filed on the number of photographs and the nature thereof but the report was not made available
Read MoreSuspended Veteran Halton Ontario Canada Police Officer Mark Trinaistich Jailed Without Bail On Laundry List Of Charges
March 24th, 2008
KITCHENER, ONT, CANADA - A suspended Halton regional police officer was denied bail Thursday on charges stemming from two incidents at his Cambridge house.
Mark Trinaistich, a 12-year police veteran, is charged with assault, forcible confinement, uttering threats and several weapons offences involving handguns, knives and pepper spray. He was ordered to remain in custody following a Kitchener bail hearing.
Trinaistich is suspended with pay from his job as a Milton patrol constable.
The first incident took place Feb. 22 at his Houghton Street home. It led to two counts of possessing restricted handguns and ammunition.
On March 1, Waterloo Regional Police were called by Trinaistich’s wife about a domestic dispute. Police helped the woman and her son to leave the house, then tactical officers remained for a seven-hour standoff after a man allegedly barricaded himself in.
RCMP Strips Crucial Details From Taser Weapon Firing Reports As Use Skyrockets Across Canada
March 24th, 2008
OTTAWA, CANADA — The RCMP is stripping crucial details about Taser firings from public reports as use of the controversial stun guns skyrockets across the country.
A joint investigation by The Canadian Press and CBC found the Mounties are now refusing to divulge key information that must be recorded each time they draw their electronic weapons.
As a result, Canadians will know much less about who is being hit with the 50,000-volt guns, whether they were armed, why they were fired on and whether they were injured.
Taser report forms obtained under the Access to Information Act show the Mounties have used the powerful weapons more than 4,000 times since introducing them seven years ago.
Incidents have increased dramatically, topping 1,000 annually in each of the last two years compared with about 600 in 2005. The overwhelming majority of firings took place in Western Canada, where the national force often leads front-line policing.
Read MoreJudge Rules That Crazed Toronto Canada Police SWAT Team Police Officer Michael Fonseca Used Excessive Force In 2 Minute Taser Weapon Attack On Fully Restrained Handcuffed Man
March 24th, 2008
TORONTO, CANADA - A Toronto police emergency task force officer used “unnecessary force” when he fired his Taser at a man “lying face down on the floor, handcuffed … fully restrained and compliant,” an Ontario Superior Court Justice ruled yesterday.
Justice David Brown also found the officer fired his Taser at the man’s back almost two minutes after another ETF officer had fired his stun gun at the man.
Police denied the allegations but Brown said he rejected their evidence and was staying the cocaine trafficking charge against Francis Walcott, 41. The large man seemed surprised and bowed his head yesterday as the judge read excerpts from his 44-page ruling.
“We review our policies to see whether they need to be changed and if any action needs to be taken in the wake of this decision we will do that,” said police spokesperson Mark Pugash.
Read MoreEdmonton Canada Police Officer Brian Toner Blames Flu For Drunk Driving
March 23rd, 2008
EDMONTON, CANADA - A city police officer found asleep in his car after allegedly driving drunk from a west-end station after having drinks with colleagues claims he was sick.
Testifying in his own defence yesterday at his impaired driving trial, Const. Brian Toner, 49, told court he had been suffering from the flu on Feb. 24, 2006, and had been vomiting, feeling dizzy and upset in his stomach.
Despite being ill, the 25-year veteran admitted he went to the station lunchroom to have “a few drinks” with fellow officers about 4 a.m. following their shift.
Toner testified he next remembers waking up to the sound of his car door opening and seeing Const. Adam Woodburn, who told him to get into his police cruiser.
He said he agreed and was taken back to the station and directed to sit in the back of Const. Mike Taylor’s car.
Read MoreFormer Toronto Canada Police Officer Terrence Rivers Sentenced To 8 1/2 Years In Prison For Attempted Murder Of Another Police Officer
March 22nd, 2008
TORONTO, CANADA - A former Toronto police officer was sentenced to eight years and six months in prison for the attempted murder of a Kawartha Lakes OPP officer almost three years ago.
Terrence Rivers, 54, formerly of Bobcaygeon was convicted of attempted murder using a knife, possession of a knife for the purpose of committing an offence and attempting to take a weapon from a police officer on Feb. 7.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Rose Boyko sentenced Mr. Rivers on Thursday in Lindsay.
Prior to sentencing, the charge of possession of a knife for the purpose of committing an offence was conditionally stayed.
He was also sentenced on other charges, including an assault on a former girlfriend in 2005.
The convicted man, looking sickly and unkempt, sat in a wheelchair, to which he’s been confined since having recent knee surgery, sometimes rocking back and forth as Crown prosecutor Rick Bagg and his defence counsel, Brian Scott, gave their submissions.
Read MoreCrackhead Suspended Ottawa Canada Police Officer Kevin Hall Claims He Is Sorry For Stealing Crack Cocaine, Wants To Remain On Force Despite “Disability”
March 7th, 2008
OTTAWA, CANADA - A suspended Ottawa police officer offered on Thursday to pay back one month’s salary should he lose an upcoming appeal of his dismissal from the force.
Speaking publicly for the first time, Const. Kevin Hall also said he was sorry for stealing crack cocaine for his own personal use but felt he has a “right” to return to duty after his drug addiction was recognized as a disability.
“I truly do apologize for what has happened,” said Const. Hall, who is now fighting his second appeal to remain an Ottawa police officer after two separate tribunals ordered him dismissed.
Const. Kevin Hall is appealing separate tribunal orders that he be fired from the Ottawa Police Service.
Const. Hall said he has now been clean for three years, attends several aftercare programs and submits urine tests for analysis twice a week.
Read MoreNorth Bay Canada Police Officer Sean Burns Quits In Disgrace After Serving Jail Terms For Extortion And Harassment
March 6th, 2008
NORTH BAY, CANADA - Disgraced North Bay Police Service Constable Sean Burns was to attend a hearing Tuesday to face charges under the Police Services Act dating back to 2002, but just before the hearing Burns tendered his resignation from the service bringing the process to a halt.
Burns served a 3-month jail term for extortion followed by a 15-day probation term for harassment and a concurrent 18-month probation period following his release.
Police Chief Paul Cook confirmed the resignation Wednesday, and says the whole issued has blackened the service, but he is pleased it has concluded and that the service can back to the business at hand.
Former Cornwall Canada Police Officer Perry Dunlop Sentenced To 6+ Months In Jail After Refusing To Testify
March 5th, 2008
TORONTO, CANADA — A former police officer who insists he is the victim of a widespread and high-level conspiracy to protect pedophiles was sentenced to at least six months in jail for contempt of court Wednesday.
Two judges of the Divisional Court imposed the sentence against Perry Dunlop and warned he could face more time in jail if he continued to refuse to testify at an ongoing public inquiry probing allegations of past sexual abuse in an eastern Ontario community.
“If individuals are free to choose which court orders they obey, it would result in disorder and chaos,” said Justice Lee Ferrier.
Dunlop has ignored orders of the Cornwall Public Inquiry and the Ontario Divisional Court to testify, because he has said it had been set up to “crucify” him and he had no faith in the justice system.
Read MoreHalton Region Canada Police Officer Mark Trinaistich Suspended, Charged After Standoff With Police Amid Domestic Incident At His Home
March 5th, 2008
HESPELER, CANADA - A Halton Region police officer has been charged with assault and forcible confinement after an alleged domestic dispute at his Cambridge home on the weekend.
Const. Mark Trinaistich, 39, is also charged with uttering threats.
He was remanded in a video court appearance yesterday and is scheduled to appear in a Kitchener courtroom today.
Trinaistich, a patrol officer in Milton, had been suspended with pay on Friday afternoon pending the outcome of an internal police investigation into an unrelated matter, said Sgt. Brian Carr of Halton police.
Carr said he didn’t know the circumstances leading to the investigation.
At 3 a.m. Saturday, hours after the suspension, Waterloo police went to a house on Houghton Street in Hespeler after a woman called police, spokesperson Olaf Heinzel said.
Police helped the woman and a child out of the house, leaving a distraught man inside, Heinzel said. No one was hurt.
Read MoreBritish Columbia Canada RCMP Police Officer Trent Richards Orders To Resign Or Be Fired After On Duty Sex, Using Patrol Cars And Computers To Seek Sex
March 4th, 2008
SHAWNIGAN LAKE, B.C., CANADA - An RCMP officer who had sex while working and used RCMP police cruisers and computers to seek out sexual encounters has been ordered to resign from the force within 14 days or face dismissal.
Constable Trent Richards, who worked at the Shawnigan Lake, B.C., detachment for four years, breached the trust of the RCMP and the public, a disciplinary board found yesterday.
“In this case, the breach of trust is considered egregious,” said Inspector Monique Sanche, the board chairman.
“Const. Richards has used his position as a police officer to seek women out. He has violated the trust given him by the force, has misused RCMP information technology, his police vehicle and emergency equipment in pursuit of his own personal gratification. “
RCMP lawyer Tim Nixon, told the hearing this week that Const. Richards used his position as a police officer to engage in sex while on the job.
Read MoreFormer Alberta Canada Police Officer Mike Ferguson Loses Bid For Sentence Reduction After Shooting And Killing Man In Jail Cell
March 3rd, 2008
CALGARY, CANADA — Former Alberta Mountie Mike Ferguson wasn’t entitled to a sentence below the mandatory minimum for fatally shooting a suspect in an RCMP cell, Canada’s top co