Peel cops reel in $25m in drugs

Peel Regional Police seized 182 kilograms of methamphetamine, 166 kilograms of cocaine and 38 kilograms of ketamine. Street value is pegged at $25m. Cops worked with U.S. Homeland Security Investigations in Detroit and Chicago, and Border Enforcement Security Task Force in Buffalo. The group used commercial trucks to import drugs across the border. Busted are Khalilullah Amin, 46, Jaspreet Singh, 28, Wray Ip, 27, Ravinder Boparai, 27, and Gurdeep Gakhal, 38.

HA prospect Steven Collard goes away for 42 months

HA prospect Steven Collard pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy, drug trafficking and unlawful acts at the direction of a criminal organization. He has been detained since his arrest on May 13, 2021, so Collard has another 15 months in prison. His brother, Marc Dubois, also pleaded guilty. He will be sentenced February 23, 2023. Three others, Vincent Douillard, Patrick Ross and Pierre-Benoit Desjardins, also entered guilty pleas.

Marc Dubois

It was a 3 month community sentence for prospect Steven Collard in Jan 2021. Collard, accompanied by HA Clermont Carrier, struck the victim with a bottle in the face, inflicting injuries. Collard told a civilian undercover agent that wearing colours gave him a sense of power and respect.

Nowakowski sues the basterds

Paula Nowakowski is suing the BC Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch because it was denied a liquor license over her ties to organized crime. She is the wife of Mark Nowakowski, former president of the defunct Fallen Saints Motorcycle Club, which was a puppet club of the Saskatoon Hells Angels. Mark Nowakowski is on the lease for the Kelowna restaurant, but Paula Nowakowski said in the lawsuit that lease that was signed "a week or two" prior to the couple separating. The lawsuit argues Mark Nowakowski is reformed and has not been involved in criminal activity 'for the past four or five years.' The lawsuit relies on “procedural fairness” as the cornerstone of the case.

Nowakowski was busted in 2015 as part of Project Forseti. Cops nailed 14 and seized massive amounts of drugs and guns. Nowakowski bought 15 months.

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Vincenzo Armeni whacked in Laval

Vincenzo Armeni, 66, had a long history of close ties to the Montreal Mafia. Cops found him lying on the pavement of a strip mall’s parking lot. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police found a burned-out SUV not far away. In 2007, Armeni received a 19-year sentence for his role in a conspiracy to traffic 760 kgs of cocaine. When Armeni was arrested in 2005 he was out on parole on a 10-year stretch received in 1998 for smuggling 160 kgs of cocaine. In 1986 it was heroin trafficking.

On Dec. 1, 2014 his brother-in-law Tonino Callocchia, a high-ranking member of the Montreal Mafia, was killed.

Armeni is described as someone who, from the age of 20, “adopted a lifestyle that centred on ease, greed, compulsive work in businesses and the inflexible code of ‘men of honour,’” While incarcerated at Archambault Institution, he wrote a letter that critized the institution's living conditions and argued for reduced life sentences and better prisoner pay. On Aug. 17, 2020, Armeni was released upon reaching his statutory release.

Record Colombian cocaine output - up 14%

Colombian cocaine output set a new record last year. Production rose 14%, to 1,400 tons. The amount of land planted with coca rose 43% to 204,000 hectares, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said.

Aqueduct racetrack heist an inside job

The robbery took place after Gotham Day stakes races at the Queens racetrack.

Two men were convicted in a brazen armed robbery at Aqueduct Racetrack that net more than $284k. A Brooklyn jury found Lafayette Morrison and Lamel Miller, both 39, guilty. They face seven years to life for the March 2020 heist.

During the theft, two men held up several employees at gunpoint. Among the staff was Morrison, who had been working as a security guard at the track.

Battle of Bakhmut - update

Russia’s prospects of even this seems remote as winter sets in.

The Bakhmut operation is a lie according to Forbes. "The overall narrative the Kremlin hopes to create is that, despite all the evidence to the contrary, its forces still can win in Ukraine. And the forces contributing to the Bakhmut attack—in particular, the separatists and Wagner—all are trying to take credit for the fictional wins." While their comrades retreated or dug in, the Russian and allied troops around Bakhmut kept trying to advance. Losses are huge. Last week, the Russians claimed they’d captured several settlements around Bakhmut. Ukraine denied it. Russians are losing strength and they are willing to spend all to achieve a symbolic victory rather than an actual military one of value.

"Ukrainians are guys with the same iron balls as we are,” Prigozhin wrote.

Reports on social media and in Russian state media say Wagner mercenaries are on the outskirts of Bakhmut, in Ivangrad. Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has acknowledged that resistance from Ukraine around Bakhmut is stiff. “The situation near Bakhmut is stably difficult, the Ukrainian troops are putting up decent resistance and the legend of the fleeing Ukrainians is just a legend.

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Vishal Walia whacked - charges laid

The victim of the targeted shooting at Vancouver’s University Golf Club was Vishal Walia, 38. Cops confirmed that he had connections to the United Nations gang and conflict led to his death. Three United Nations gang associates have been charged with arson and other counts. Busted are DeAndre Baptiste, Balraj Basra and Iqbal Kang. They are facing first degree murder charges for the shooting of Vishal Walia. Walia was a close friend of Aman Manj, who was killed in the parkade of a downtown Vancouver hotel on Sept. 15, 2021. His murder remains unsolved.

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Cop's Ponzi scheme lassos 40 other cops - dead

Larry Renton, who was a detective-sergeant when he retired in 2016, died at his home on Sunday. He was 58.

Ponzi schemer Det. Sgt. Larry Renton operated his investment scheme out of his West Region Ontario Provincial Police office in the town of Simcoe, then continued from home after he retired. He promised investors staggering returns and suckered dozens of OPP and municipal officers. An estimated 40 officers of all ranks and an unknown number of civilians lost between $15m to $20m.

Renton retired at age 52.

Renton was not registered with the province of Ontario as a financial adviser or investment dealer. In his emails to investors, many of them police, he routinely reminded them that for every big investor they brought him, he would provide a 5% fee.

Trump slags judge - called out as fraudster

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump ·3h Who’s this Clinton appointed “Judge,” David Carter, who keeps saying, and sending to all, very nasty, wrong, and ill informed statements about me on rulings, or a case (whatever!), currently going on in California, that I know nothing about - nor am I represented. With that being said, please explain to this partisan hack that the Presidential Election of 2020 was Rigged and Stolen. Also, he shouldn’t be making statements about me until he understands the facts, which he doesn’t! 3,465 11,509 Oct 20, 2022, 07:05

Trump lashed out after a federal judge wrote that he knowingly pushed false claims of voter fraud while he was fighting his 2020 election loss. Judge Carter ordered John Eastman, a pro-Trump attorney who tried to challenge Biden’s win, to turn over dozens of documents to the committee investigating the Capitol riot.

Among those 33 documents were emails that “demonstrate an effort by President Trump and his attorneys to press false claims in federal court for the purpose of delaying the January 6 vote,” Carter wrote. Trump signed a verification, under oath, in Dec 2020, which claimed that in Fulton County, Georgia, over 15,000 voters were improperly counted because they were cast by dead people, felons or unregistered voters. The problem for Trump is that is a lie. “The emails show that President Trump knew that the specific numbers of voter fraud were wrong but continued to tout those numbers, both in court and to the public,” the judge wrote.