The Toronto Police Service apprehended Canute Cedric Green on April 15 in the Greater Toronto Area.

News Release
17th removal of “Wanted by the CBSA” individual

Ottawa, Ontario, May 9, 2012 – The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) today announced the removal of Canute Cedric Green, who is featured on the “Wanted by the CBSA” list.

The Toronto Police Service apprehended Canute Cedric Green on April 15 in the Greater Toronto Area. Green is inadmissible to Canada for serious criminality for being convicted of trafficking in a controlled substance, robbery, assault causing bodily harm, carrying a concealed weapon and assaulting a peace officer. He was removed from Canada on May 8.

To date, as a result of the “Wanted by the CBSA” program, Canadians have assisted in locating 25 individuals in Canada, while four individuals were located abroad. Additionally, the CBSA has removed 17 of these individuals from Canada.

Members of the public are reminded that they should not take action to apprehend the individuals listed on the CBSA Web site. Any information on the whereabouts of these wanted individuals should be reported to the CBSA Border Watch Toll-free Line at 1-888-502-9060.

By Dean Pritchard

A Chinese immigrant arrested working on a massive rural dope farm has been sentenced to two years house arrest.

Goon Kim Wong, 61, pleaded guilty to a single count of production of marijuana. Wong was one of 28 Asian immigrants arrested at the Sundown area farm in October 2005 and the last to be dealt with by the courts.

Court heard police seized 11,000 plants and 2,700 pounds of harvested marijuana worth at least $10 million.

When police raided the farm property, they found the 28 accused in a small house sleeping “head-to-foot, side-to-side,” said Crown attorney Geoff Bayly.

Wong is one of only three accused to be convicted in connection with the operation. Prosecutors stayed charges against 20 co-accused, while another five were acquitted at trial.

Many of the accused were recruited from Toronto’s Chinatown district and did not know they were harvesting marijuana while others felt trapped with no means of escape from the farm, Bayly said.

Prosecutors had evidence Wong may have had a supervisory role at the farm but agreed to a plea bargain due to witness translation issues, Bayly said.

Wong spent over 20 years working as a cook in Toronto and came to Sundown hoping to earn money for his children’s university education, said defence lawyer Rob Tsang.

“He was trying to help his children make a better life for themselves,” Tsang said.

Simon Wong, the man police allege ran the dope farm, has never been arrested. After the bust he boarded a Winnipeg plane bound for British Columbia and disappeared.

Mob enforcer deported from Canada for a third time
Rob Lamberti, Special to the Toronto Sun
First posted: Friday, May 04, 2012 05:30 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, May 04, 2012 05:45 PM EDT

Juan Ramon Paz-Fernandez — also known as Joe Bravo — first deported in 1999, is led away by RCMPin 2001 after the mob enforcer was nabbed in Woodbridge. (Toronto Sun files)

TORONTO – Maybe Canada will get lucky on the third try.

Rizzuto mob enforcer Joe Bravo — jailed in 2004 for planning a hit on a fellow mobster — was deported to Spain in April after his 12-year prison term for conspiring to commit murder and importing a tonne of cocaine ended.

The concern now is whether he’ll try to sneak back into Canada as he did twice before after being deported to Europe.

IHIT Cpl. Adam Macintosh told the media that a deceased male was found in a rented a basement suite at a residence at 12432 70th Ave. in, Surrey, Thursday, May 03 2012. IHIT will continue to investigate for 24 hours to determined the cause. Photograph by: Les Bazso, PNG

Two fatal shootings in Metro Vancouver in as many days prompt outcry from families, police
Politicians, victim’s mom call for public release of gangster information, posters
By Kim Bolan, Vancouver Sun May 4, 2012

IHIT Cpl. Adam Macintosh told the media that a deceased male was found in a rented a basement suite at a residence at 12432 70th Ave. in, Surrey, Thursday, May 03 2012. IHIT will continue to investigate for 24 hours to determined the cause.
Photograph by: Les Bazso , PNG

Two fatal shootings in two days have politicians and a victim’s mom calling for police to publicly release more information about violent gangsters who threaten community safety — including posters with their photos.

The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team was working Thursday night to identify a man shot to death in a Surrey basement suite near 124th Street and 70th Avenue.

The slaying came just a day after notorious Vancouver gangster Ranjit Singh Cheema, 43, was executed in a drive-by shooting in front of his parents’ home on East 61st Avenue.

Man slain in Montreal was druger dealer in Ottawa
By MEGHAN HURLEY, Ottawa Citizen April 24, 2012

OTTAWA — A man shot to death outside Montreal on Saturday night was an alleged cocaine dealer in the Ottawa area.

Wasseem Gebara, 32, was shot to death in a parking lot attached to a condominium in Brossard just before 11 p.m. Saturday.

Gebara, who was shot several times, was pronounced dead at the scene. No arrests have been made.

Reached at their Ottawa home Tuesday afternoon, Gebara’s family asked for privacy.

According to court records, Gebara was acquitted of gun charges in 2005 after a Superior Court justice found that police made him wait six hours after his arrest to speak to a lawyer.

A 2008 Superior Court decision says that Gebara was arrested at gunpoint on Nov. 3, 2005 after his car was boxed in on Othello Drive by Ottawa police drug unit officers.

Gebara was forced to the ground, handcuffed and arrested for cocaine trafficking. He was carrying $390 in cash at the time, and the smell of freshly burned marijuana came from his car.
(…)
© Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette

Descending into the life of a reoffender

Dikila M’Bosso, leaving a courtroom at the Montreal courthouse with his lawyer Mary Hélène Giroulx and an unidentified woman on April 10, 2012, is charged with storming into a social housing unit with two accomplices last summer and holding five men hostage during an apparent robbery. He is also charged with possessing ammunition for at least three types of prohibited firearms, and in a separate case for leaving the scene of a car accident in 2010. Photograph by: Phil Carpenter , Montreal Gazette

The four youngsters who assaulted a 64-year-old Montrealer seven years ago have become career criminals
By Paul Cherry, The Gazette April 16, 2012

(…)

MONTREAL – On Jan. 3, 2005, Martha Taylor Gregory, a 64-year-old grandmother, was stabbed and beaten by four teenagers who were out joyriding in a stolen minivan and decided to steal her car on a whim. It was a senseless crime that captured the attention of Montrealers. The teens were all between 13 and 17. All four were quickly arrested and convicted in youth court. They served between 12 and 16 months in youth detention facilities. A look back at the crime has revealed that all four have since reoffended and three have serious adult criminal records. One is an alleged street gang member facing deportation, another is serving an 11-year sentence for a sexual assault.

Sporting a track suit and using an overly familiar tone when addressing the judge before him, Dikila M’Bosso, 21, waived his right to a preliminary inquiry on Friday in a case where the alleged street gang member is charged with storming into a social housing unit with two accomplices last summer and holding five men hostage during an apparent robbery.

(…)
M’Bosso has kept the provincial courts busy this month. On April 4, he also had a court date in Laval for allegedly leaving the scene of a car accident in 2010. He failed to show up for that hearing.

Each court date serves as a reminder M’Bosso has been a man in limbo since March 14, 2011, when the Federal Court of Canada confirmed a previous decision by the Immigration and Refugee Board ordering his removal. The immigration department’s position is that M’Bosso is inadmissible in Canada on two grounds – because he is part of a criminal organization and has a criminal record that already involves several convictions. During his immigration hearing, the Montreal police alleged M’Bosso has, since the age of 16, been part of two street gangs controlled by the Bo-Gars, a gang based in northern Montreal.