Crime

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* Officer faces charge of releasing driver in return for tickets

* Canada Free Press interviewed by KABC LosAngeles -- Toronto police association caves in to the left

* Student from China charged with killing schoolgirl Cecilia Zhang

* Life was hell, so he turned on the Angels -- Informant who helped RCMP put away three full-patch members of the biker club's Nova Scotia chapter tells Julian Sher he's not a rat; he just wanted to save his family

Officer faces charge of releasing driver in return for tickets

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Mr. McCormack, who testified at a car dealers' licence hearing about Mr. Geller, was asked to leave his job on the board of the police union but refused.

Officer faces charge of releasing driver in return for tickets Jeff Gray, July 21, 2004

A Toronto Police officer has been charged with accepting hockey tickets from a man he let off after the man refused to give a roadside breath sample, in another example of alleged misconduct at the downtown 52 Division.

Constable Paul Stone is charged with insubordination and misconduct under the Police Services Act after allegedly arresting a man --identified in police documents only as M.A. -- for refusing to provide a breath sample, then releasing him in return for the tickets. The infraction allegedly occurred in February. [. . . . ]

Police Services Act charges are less serious than criminal charges. They carry penalties from reprimands to dismissal. All the charged officers are to make their first appearances at police-headquarters hearings on Sept. 23.

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Canada Free Press interviewed by KABC LosAngeles -- Toronto police association caves in to the left

Toronto police association caves in to the left Judi McLeod, July 21, 2004

The best way to restore public confidence in our police service is for the police association to clean up its act.

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Student charged with killing schoolgirl Cecilia Zhang

Student charged with killing schoolgirl Cecilia Zhang Paul Cross, CP, July 22, 04

[. . . . ] Min Chen, 21, a visa student from China, has been charged with first-degree murder, said Peel police Chief Noel Catney.

[. . . . ] Catney said Chen has been in Canada on a student visa from Shanghai since 2001. [. . . . ]

There is more today, here Young man a frequent visitor to Zhang home


Life was hell, so he turned on the Angels -- Informant who helped RCMP put away three full-patch members of the biker club's Nova Scotia chapter tells JULIAN SHER he's not a rat; he just wanted to save his family

Life was hell, so he turned on the Angels July 20, 2004, Julian Sher

He misses the clout the most, the stature that came from being a drug dealer associated with the Hells Angels.

"I miss the perception of power when you walk into a bar -- the visibility and the adulation," says Bill, still an imposing figure at 6 feet, 230 pounds. "If you were in their bars where they fit in, everybody liked you."

And, of course, he misses the cool, hard cash, the $5,000 to $10,000 he pulled in every week from cocaine and hashish sales. "It was easy money," he says with only a trace of wistfulness, "a lazy way to make money."

But bikers and drugs are behind him now. After more than 15 years on the drug scene in Halifax, Bill became a police informant. The two years he spent making undercover drug buys and secret electronic recordings led to the conviction of three members of the Hells Angels chapter in January, 2003. Part of the RCMP's Operation Hammer, those convictions helped shatter the Nova Scotia chapter of the outlaw motorcycle gang.

Bill is in the RCMP's witness-protection program. Neither his name nor location can be revealed. But, for the first time, he has emerged to tell his story as a warning to young people who, like him, are lured by the thrill of the bikers.

"I think a 20-year-old kid should take that first moment that he meets a Hells Angels and he's scared and he should stay scared," Bill warns. "I'm a firm believer in first impressions, and if you were scared of them, there's a reason you were scared of them." [. . . . ]