Walter Garrick convicted of defrauding former Argos Damon Allen and Michael “Pinball” Clemons
Published on Wednesday December 19, 2012

 Walter Garrick  posing as a wealthy investor convicted of defrauding former Toronto Argonauts players Michael “Pinball” Clemons and Damon Allen and others out of nearly $250,000.

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Walter Garrick received his judgment on Wednesday at 361 University Ave. and walked out of Osgoode Hall.
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A man posing as a wealthy investor has been convicted of defrauding former Toronto Argonauts players Michael “Pinball” Clemons and Damon Allen and others out of nearly $250,000.

Walter Garrick sat motionless in a University Ave. courtroom on Wednesday as Justice David McCombs found him guilty on eight of 10 counts of fraud and theft over $5,000.

The judge said he rejected “completely” Garrick’s evidence at trial, saying it was “full of obfuscation, implausibilities, and outright lies.”

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Ian Thomas Williams was sentenced Friday for the second time for failing to use a condom or tell women with whom he was having unprotected sex that he has the virus that causes AIDS.

November 23, 2012
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HIV-infected man jailed again for unprotected sex
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Ian Thomas Williams was sentenced Friday for the second time for failing to use a condom or tell women with whom he was having unprotected sex that he has the virus that causes AIDS.

An HIV-infected man who had unprotected sex with two women gave a tearful, rambling explanation before being sentenced to six years in prison Friday — his second such conviction.

December 13, 2012
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Police seek suspect who threatened boy with knife at Eaton Centre
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Toronto Police are seeking a suspect who allegedly threatened a boy with a knife at Eaton Centre.

Toronto Police are warning the public after a man allegedly threatened at least one boy with a knife at the Eaton Centre.

Joanne Merlene Jones. Joanne Merlene Jones, 41, has been charged in a kidnapping incident at an Oshawa school on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. Police arrested Jones in connection with the abduction of child from a Toronto mall in 2006. Toronto Star file photo Torstar News Services file photo

Woman who kidnapped toddler in 2006 accused of abducting another

Woman who snatched toddler in 2006 is accused of kidnapping another
Published on Wednesday December 19, 2012

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Joanne Jones in a 2006 courtroom sketch.
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They said Joanne Merlene Jones was no longer a threat.

Six years after the woman kidnapped a 4-year-old boy from a Toronto shopping mall and sparked a city-wide search, an Ontario Review Board panel decided she no longer required its oversight.