For the "Really Important" Crimes, Call in the RCMP!

Organized crime is doing $25 billion in business in Canada and has at least 10,000 major players and the Mounties are dealing with this and shopping carts in Kelowna? Maybe they have too much time on their hands or were told to lay off the major crooks and stick with the small fry for easy stats.

Edwardsburg Township man charged with satellite signal theft

KINGSTON, ON, April 19 /CNW/ - Charges have been filed against an Ontario man after Kingston RCMP discovered several satellite systems set up in an Edwardsburg Township, ON home which were being used to demonstrate signal piracy.

Members of the Kingston RCMP Federal Enforcement Section executed a search warrant at the home April 5, 2005 and found two satellite systems located throughout the home. Legal "free to air" receivers had been modified to receive encrypted signals from USA Dishnetwork and other satellite systems. The search came after an investigation was conducted with the assistance of the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association and charges were laid April 7, 2005.

"The theft of satellite signals cost various industries an estimated $300 million last year. The RCMP is committed to continuing to investigate this type of illegal activity," RCMP Sgt. Sandy Fraser said of the offences under the Radio Communications Act and the Criminal Code of Canada. [. . . . ]

Our government will make sure our finest catch those who steal satellite signals that enter from the US. . . . . But criminal gangs? Drug dealers? Grow-ops? (Ah, soon the government will legalize the stuff, in my opinion . . . . . . you never know . . . . . . might need votes. )

Gun runners? Enforcers?. . . . . Someone has suggested they exist . . . even that they work for those afraid of losing power . . . . . Do you suppose they really exist? In Canada? Nah! Never.