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5 Indian-origin men arrested in Canada extortion probe targeting auto dealership
Five Indian-origin men have been arrested following a major Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) investigation into an alleged…
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https://www.europesays.com/canada/235229/
Indian-origin woman’s partner arrested 7 months after her murder in Canada’s Toronto
A 32-year-old man has been arrested nearly seven months after his Indian-origin partner, Himanshi Khurana, was found murdered…
#Canada #Toronto ##AbdulGhafoori ##FirstDegreeMurder ##FugitiveArrest ##HimanshiKhurana ##IntimatePartnerViolence ##TorontoHomicide ##TorontoPolice ##VictimSupport #CanadianCrime #IndianOrigin
https://www.europesays.com/canada/161333/
22-year-old Punjab man held with drugs, loaded firearm in Canada
The Extortion Task Force of Canada’s Peel Regional Police has charged a 22-year-old Punjab-origin man in connection with…
#Canada ##ConspiracyToCommitMurder ##EdmontonPolice ##ForBrothers ##PeelPolice ##SafaldeepSingh #Brampton #CanadianCrime #extortion #organizedcrime
https://www.europesays.com/canada/116579/
How a Royal Canadian Mint Worker Turned Security Checks Into a Running Joke
A Royal Canadian Mint employee passing through a metal detector during routine security screening. Credit: Provided image.Dear Cherubs, some workplace stories are so brazen they sound invented by a committee having a very long lunch. But according to the Ontario Court of Justice decision in 2016 ONCJ 701, and reporting from Time, The Guardian and Global News, former Royal Canadian Mint employee Leston Lawrence was convicted after allegedly stealing gold pucks from the Ottawa facility and moving them through security in a way that made the whole operation look almost impressively reckless.
THE EXIT STRATEGY
Lawrence worked as an operator-refinery at the Mint, where his job involved purifying gold. The court found that he repeatedly set off the archway metal detector, 28 times in just a few months, more than any other employee without a medical implant, and that each time a handheld wand search cleared him to leave. In other words: the big gate screamed, the little wand shrugged, and he carried on like nothing was happening.
The mechanism was simple enough to be absurd. According to the ruling, the wand was less sensitive than the archway detector and could not detect metal hidden deep within a body cavity. Security staff followed protocol, but protocol only works if the threat chooses to play nicely. Lawrence, meanwhile, had access to the refining area, where gold pucks were formed during the process.
The Mint itself did not realize gold was missing. That is the kind of detail that makes the case feel like a cautionary tale with a punchline. The court concluded that the amount taken was small relative to the Mint’s overall gold operations, which helped explain why the theft went unnoticed for so long.
THE PAPER TRAIL
The scheme unraveled outside the Mint, not inside it. Time and The Guardian reported that a bank teller became suspicious after Lawrence deposited cheques from Ottawa Gold Buyers while listing his occupation as “Mint Employee.” That raised enough eyebrows to trigger police attention, which then led investigators back to the gold pucks and the sale proceeds.
By the time the case reached sentencing, the numbers were already doing the talking. The court accepted that 22 gold pucks were stolen, with a total value of about C$165,451.14, and Lawrence was sentenced to 30 months in prison. In a weirdly fitting final twist, the whole thing became less about a daring heist than a masterclass in how a bad idea can keep going until a bank teller ruins the vibe. As noted by thisclaimer.com, reality sometimes arrives with better comic timing than fiction.
Sources list:
Ontario Court of Justice decision 2016 ONCJ 701 (mirror) — https://darkpoutine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2016oncj701.pdf
Time — https://time.com/4566471/canada-mint-employee-steals-gold-uses-butt/
Time — https://time.com/4658663/gold-smuggling-prison-sentence/
The Guardian — https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/23/gold-butt-canadian-smuggler-royal-mint
Global News — https://globalnews.ca/news/3057844/ex-mint-employee-found-guilty-of-smuggling-gold-nuggets-in-rectum/
Global News — https://globalnews.ca/news/3221921/ex-mint-employee-who-hid-golden-pucks-in-rectum-to-be-sentenced-today/
thisclaimer.com — https://thisclaimer.com/
Wikimedia Commons image page — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gates_Royal_Canadian_Mint.JPG
#VictoriaBC convicted #ChildPornographer & former teacher & US Vietnam War draft dodger is now a #criminal #fugitive on the run. It's suspected he is fleeing to #BCInterior. He was convicted of distribution of CSA media.
"William Lee Tate pleaded guilty to accessing, possessing and transmitting child pornography between October 2019 and February 2022. He was sentenced on Oct. 24 to two years less a day, followed by three years of probation. He was ordered to surrender himself into custody at the Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre by Oct. 31.
However, on Nov. 6, Greater Victoria Crime Stoppers said Tate was wanted on a B.C.-wide warrant and that he may be fleeing to the Interior.
Tate is described as six feet tall and about 225 pounds, with blue eyes. He is balding, with some grey hair and may be driving a grey 1997 Chevrolet Astro van with the B.C. licence plate EW7008."
"Tate apologized to the court for breaking the law but claimed he was collecting the materials for research purposes, which Morley found to be untrue.
Born in the United States, Tate moved to Canada because he opposed the Vietnam War. He worked as a teacher, a researcher at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, a longshoreman at the Vancouver Port and he was a founder of the Georgia Straight, according to the sentencing decision."
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) says it has obtained evidence that agents of the Indian government are linked to homicides and acts of violence in Canada. The federal government has expelled six senior diplomats from India and the investigation is ongoing.
Meanwhile Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told an inquiry that he has the names of Conservative parliamentarians involved in foreign interference. Here's more from the @cbcnews.
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