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Current Affairs 2008 - Corruption (14 items)
| Nov 27, 2008 | Detective's Return To Scene A Surprise Cook, a member of Rykhoff's team, is accused of stealing 15 bricks of the 102 packages of suspected cocaine discovered hidden inside boxes of mangoes in a courier delivery truck on Nov. 16, 2005.
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| Nov 7, 2008 | Charged Officer Faces Court The trial is scheduled to begin next week for a Peel Regional Police officer arrested in late 2005 over allegations he was attempting to traffic cocaine.
Officials with the Public Prosecution Service of Canada ( PPSC ), the federal government organization responsible for prosecutions on behalf of the Attorney General of Canada, indicated that Cst. Sheldon Cook, 39, will appear in a Brampton courtroom Monday.
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| Oct 9, 2008 | Drug-Related Convictions Quashed Due To Mountie's Fabrications Nova Scotia's Court of Appeal has quashed drug convictions against a dozen people because an RCMP officer fabricated evidence against them. In a decision released yesterday, the court says none of the convictions can stand because former Mountie Daniel Ryan sold drugs while lying under oath to justify search warrants for the premises of the 12 men who were convicted.
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| Jul 26, 2008 | More Than One Border Guard Involved In Drug Ring During their first face-to-face meeting in Vermont on Oct. 11, 2007, the undercover agent and Mr. Desilets discussed trading more than 400 kilograms of marijuana grown in Canada for 150 kilograms of cocaine from the U.S.
"Desilets advised that his organization utilizes a customs border agent to assist their smuggling operation," the affidavit says.
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| Jul 11, 2008 | Pot-Dealing Guard Gets House Arrest A Hamilton special constable who confessed to dealing a pound or two of marijuana a week will spend the next six months under house arrest.
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| Jul 7, 2008 | When Police Face Trial Toronto and York police behaved with exemplary professionalism as they swept in on two uniformed officers accused of criminal offences in connection with a marijuana grow-op. ...Yet there remains, by the chief's own admission, one aspect of this case that is likely to erode public confidence in our law enforcement agencies at least as much as the original allegations of criminal wrongdoing: their suspensions from the force will come with full pay.
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| Jul 5, 2008 | Police Officers Get Bail After Grow-Op Bust A City of Vaughan notice taped yesterday on the front door of an alleged former marijuana grow operation deems the suburban house unfit to occupy. ...This municipal order may cause a problem for Toronto Police Constable Kevin Bourne, 33. Police arrested him on Thursday, accusing him of taking part in a marijuana grow-op drug ring. Yesterday a court released him on $50,000 bail and ordered he reside in the Vania Drive house he lived in with his wife, Wendi, and their toddler son.
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| May 20, 2008 | Drugs A Booming BC Business Marijauna is our number 1 economic contributor, and like all successful businesses, it's growing. It isn't restricted to just one part of the province either. Marijuana is grown all over the place, even in the hinterlands, it's truly a provincial bonanza. MacLeans says it's a $5 billion to $7 billion a year business. The hard drugs bring in billions and we also do well with manufactured drugs such as methamphetamine and ecstasy.
A BC Business magazine report ranks the marijuana industry as the province's second largest business, but that's still significant.
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| May 17, 2008 | Shotgun, Dope Seized From Cop's Wrecked BMW EDMONTON - A shotgun and marijuana were seized from the car belonging to an off-duty Edmonton constable accused of causing a fiery crash while intoxicated. ...Brown, 29, faces 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 over .08. ...Brown, a three-year veteran of the force, has been suspended with pay from his job.
[Is there any other profession where you can screw up so badly, yet get time off work with pay that is provided by taxpayers?] |
| May 8, 2008 | Grow-Op Team Suspended Over Claim Of Theft Langley Township's marijuana grow-op busting team has been suspended in the wake of an allegation of theft against one of its members...A member of the team allegedly took a flashlight with two batteries, valued at between $25 and $30, from one of the raided homes.
Wade said the member could not immediately be replaced on the team so its operations have been suspended.
[Cops have been known to take things during busts - so it seems very strange this case even came to light] |
| Mar 31, 2008 | Former Jail Guard Pleads Guilty A former jail guard has pleaded guilty to accepting a bribe to smuggle marijuana into Barton Street jail.
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| Feb 11, 2008 | Full Pay - For No Work More than a year after Const. Kevin Hall was ordered fired from the Ottawa police for stealing drugs to feed his crack cocaine habit, he's still being paid his $71,000 annual salary -- and could continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
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| Feb 9, 2008 | Behind The Toronto Police Scandal Years Of Investigation Went Into A Case That, Thanks To Judge's Ruling, May Never Go To Trial
Dozens of police officers under suspicion. A million pages of documents. Thousands of interviews. Hundreds of criminal charges. Easily the worst scandal in Toronto police history.
And then it fell apart.
Charges were stayed because the prosecutors took too long in handing over the mountain of evidence to the defence.
[An definitive work on this subject] |
| Jan 27, 2008 | Border Guard Found Guilty of Accepting Sex Bribes A former U.S. border guard has been convicted of accepting sexual bribes from a drug-smuggling Vancouver prostitute and giving her a free pass at the border.
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