A man found asleep at the wheel in Toronto’s Fashion District early Sunday faces a rash of drugs and gun charges.
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At around 9 a.m., Toronto Police officers were in the area of Queen St. W. and Denison Ave. when they spotted a man in a vehicle asleep in the driver’s seat. Police say he was “exhibiting signs of intoxication” and was arrested for impaired care and control of a vehicle.
Cops allege a quantity of drugs — including crack cocaine, fentanyl and Vyvanse — as well as cash totalling $7,965 was found.
Drugs seized during the arrest of Munir Saleh, 23, of Kitchener, on Oct. 31, 2021 in Toronto.Cash seized during the arrest of Munir Saleh, 23, of Kitchener, on Oct. 31, 2021 in Toronto.
Police also allegedly seized a loaded 9-mm Glock Model 17 pistol with four rounds in the magazine.
Munir Saleh, 23, of Kitchener, is charged possession for the purpose of trafficking crack, possession for the purpose of trafficking fentanyl, possession of a schedule 1 substance (Vyvanse), possession of the proceeds of crime, possession of a weapon, possession of a restricted weapon without authorization, use/handle/store a firearm carelessly, possession of a loaded regulated firearm, occupy motor vehicle with firearm, possession of a prohibited device, possess firearm while prohibited, and two counts of fail to comply with probation.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 416-808-1400, or call Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).
A man murdered Friday in Toronto has been identified as Douglas Devlin, 54, of Toronto.
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Police responded to a call for gunshots around 4:30 a.m. Friday in the Kennedy-Ellesmere Rds. area and upon arrival, located a man who had been shot.
The victim was rushed to a hospital, where he died from his injuries.
Police said Devlin was shot while being robbed. He stumbled across the street from a plaza in the area and collapsed in a gas station parking lot.
Shooting victim fighting for life
A shooting in Vaughan has left a man fighting for his life.
Police found a man with a gunshot wound to the abdomen when officers answered a call in the Steeles Ave. W.-Weston Rd. area around 2:30 a.m. Sunday.
The victim was rushed to a hospital, where he remains in serious condition.
Police have said they are trying to pinpoint the location where the shooting took place, since it does not appear to have happened where the victim was found.
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A police presence was focused on Steeles Ave., outside the Cameo Lounge, near Scholes Rd.
Two accused of murder
Arrests have been made in the killing of Toronto’s Nikie Timm, 37, the city’s 67th homicide of 2021.
Timm and another victim were shot in North York early on Oct. 21.
Police found Timm with critical wounds in the parking lot of a building on Bakersfield St., near Sheppard Ave. W. and Keele St.
He was suffering from multiple gunshot wounds and was rushed to a nearby trauma centre, where he was later pronounced dead.
The second victim was able to get to hospital on his own, with non-life-threatening injuries.
David Benjamin, 41, and Leary Hibbert, 41 — both of Toronto — are each charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder.
Three men have been arrested in two of the seven deadly shootings that unfolded across the city over eight days of bloodshed.
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Toronto Police say a 21-year-old was taken into custody Friday for a killing in the city’s west end last weekend – one of three gun murders that occurred in 15 hours.
Donald Leroy Marson, 36 — nicknamed “Smokey” because he was well-known for his barbecues — was gunned down at 2591 Eglinton Ave. W., near Keele St., around 2:20 a.m. on Oct. 23.
Prince Cameron, of Toronto, has been charged with first-degree murder, Homicide Det.-Sgt. Stephen Matthews said in a statement released Friday night.
On Saturday, police revealed two men were taken into custody for another deadly shooting that happened two days earlier.
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Gunfire erupted at in a parking lot on Bakersfield St. – near Sheppard Ave. W. and Keele St. – around 3:35 a.m. killing one man and wounding another.
Officers responded to the scene and found a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
Police said he was rushed to hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
“Shortly after the shooting, a man attended a local hospital on his own, where he was treated for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound ,” Homicide det.-Sgt. Robert Choe said in a statement released that day.
“Both men had attended a private event prior to the shooting,” he said.
Toronto Police investigate a shooting on Bakersfield St. in North York — where one man was killed and a second injured — on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021.PHOTO BY VERONICA HENRI/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network
The dead man was later identified as Nikie Timm, 37, of Toronto.
Two Toronto men were arrested Saturday for Timm’s killing.
David Benjamin and Leary Hibbert, both 41, are each charged with one count of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.
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So far this year Toronto has endured 73 murders – 39 by guns.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Homicide Unit at 416-808-7400 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-900-222-TIPS (8477).
Some may know the name Isaiah Twyman from his rap music — others may know the name from two previous times in the past five years where the teenager has been reported missing.
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But now the 17-year-old Scarborough boy is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for second-degree murder in last Sunday’s deadly shooting of Beck Taxi driver Christopher Jung.
“He is believed to be armed, violent, and dangerous. If located, do not approach, call 911 immediately,” Toronto Police said in a statement released Friday.
While he normally can’t be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, Homicide detectives went to a judge and “obtained judicial authorization to identify a Young Person” — an authorization that expires Nov. 3 or when police take him into custody.
Christopher Jung, 73, Toronto’s 71st homicide victim of 2021PHOTO BY TORONTO POLICE/Toronto Sun
The crime the teen is accused of committing his horrendous.
Officers responded to a call for a taxi cab that had collided with a fence in the area of Pharmacy and Eglinton Aves.just after 8:45 p.m.
Driving that taxi was Jung, 73, who sources say was shot in the abdomen.
A man was seen running from the taxi but police knew that inside this cab would be all the evidence they could ever want.
“There are cameras in the car,” Beck Taxi Operations Manager Kristine Hubbard told me. “Hopefully, they will show what happened. We have offered police full support and given them all the information we have about routes.”
In other words Isaiah, you only have one move. If you are out there reading this, the best play is to turn yourself in at the nearest police station or contact a lawyer to help you surrender peacefully. Not only is the that the decent way to go, it will also mean your name and picture will be out there for the public to see for a shorter period of time.
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This young person is considered innocent until proven guilty.
Police are pursing all avenues in this case to determine just what happened here.
Video evidence has been compelling in helping police solve serious crimes in taxi’s before.
In 2006, cameras in a Beck Taxi helped investigators track down the suspect in the stabbing murder of Mahmood Bhatti. Jung’s murder was initially thought to be a stabbing as well, but then police located shell casings at the scene and later reported he was shot multiple times. His death has shaken Beck Taxi, which has thousands of drivers who service the GTA.
In the meantime, the focus is trying to locate this suspect, who previous police news releases show as a younger teenager went missing from his home twice. Some of this rap songs are also available on streaming services.
Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of this suspect is urged to call the Homicide unit at 416-808-7400 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
A veteran Toronto radio host has become the latest victim of a politically correct world gone mad and of a legacy media desperate to pander to the “woke”.
True North has learned that 50-year radio professional Peter Shurman, who filled in as a talk show host at 640 Toronto for five years, was told last week he was being cancelled over a bizarre incident that occurred on Sept. 24.
He was apparently given no rationale for the axing.
Shurman was filling in on the drive-time show when lesbian activist Farrah Khan came on to speak about how Smart Serve Ontario’s training program will now include training to recognize sexual violence and drug-induced sexual assault.
Khan is married to far-left councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam.
Prior to the interview, Shurman spoke of a naive young family member who stayed with him a few years back and who he had to caution about being careful when she endeavoured to meet strangers in bars.
He mentioned the potential to “wind up in trouble” when one orders a drink and leaves it sitting on the bar while going to the washroom.
It’s the kind of advice I wish I’d had before I naively allowed in a stranger interested in subletting my apartment while a student in Ottawa in 1978 – a stranger who beat me, tried to strangle me and left me near dead.
Khan, the manager of Ryerson University’s office of sexual violence, barely answered his first question, before proceeding to lambaste Shurman on air.
“The person that is responsible for sexual violence is the person that is committing the sexual violence … this is a kind of naming and shaming,” she said, in an attempt to talk over Shurman.
When Shurman attempted to explain what he meant, Khan hung up, insisting she hadn’t been respected.
The entire segment lasted barely 3.5 minutes.
Immediately after, Khan took to Twitter in what appeared a campaign to shame Shurman:
The Twitter lynch mob attacked almost immediately – praising Khan for standing up to a misogynist. The responses included this tweet alluding to possible violent retribution from someone who identified as Khan’s uncle:
Khan chimed in repeatedly to followers – seemingly prepared to milk the incident for all it was worth.
The following Friday 640 Toronto morning talk show host Greg Brady had Khan on his show to apologize.
He claimed Shurman reacted in an “adversarial way” to Khan.
“Unfortunately our guest just wasn’t treated with the deference she should have been,” Brady said, choosing not to say that Khan would not allow Shurman to explain himself.
He said the incident moved to social media which “made the matter worse” – choosing not to mention the fact that Khan and her followers allowed things to escalate and that Shurman stayed silent.
Brady alleged that as a result, Khan was subject to “rape threats” and an “outpouring of hate” towards her and her family – not asking her to provide proof.
“We apologize as a station… we’re very sorry that this occurred,” he said.
Immediately following the interview, Khan took to Twitter again:
A week later Shurman was cancelled by station management. The Ford government subsequently removed him from the Tarion Warranty Corporation board following a complaint by an NDP MPP.
Contacted for comment, Shurman said that as a lifelong radio pro and champion of sexual equality, he is “devastated.”
He refused to comment further as he’s in the process of looking into legal avenues available to him.
Efforts to get a statement from 640 Toronto were unsuccessful.
Khan, seemingly unfazed by the fallout of her Twitter campaign, indicated that while she was “disappointed” with the first interview, she was “glad” the station offered her the chance to come back to help listeners “shape understandings about sexual violence.”
She said Mr. Shurman’s employment status with AM 640 is a “matter between him and his employer.”
Khan says she never requested that he be fired, only for an “apology” and better training on sexual violence be put in place at the station.
