Trevor Edwards pleaded guilty in Newmarket court Monday to a dozen charges, including extortion, unlawful confinement, obstructing a police officer and assault.

Tarantino-esque chase ends in guilty plea
Published On Mon, 14 May 2012

Trevor Edwards pleaded guilty in Newmarket court Monday to a dozen charges, including extortion, unlawful confinement, obstructing a police officer and assault.
Peter Edwards
Staff Reporter

Trevor Samuel Edwards’ life was playing out like a Quentin Tarantino movie.

The Markham man was driving hard in July 2010, trying to catch up with his former lover, who had fled him at the wheel of his black C Class Mercedes.

Making her flight all the more troubling for Edwards, 42, was the fact that he had stashed $50,000 cash in a shoebox in the Mercedes’ trunk before she hit the road.

After being kidnapped, businessman Johnny Fei and real estate agent Tony Han were held at this house on Edward Jeffreys Ave. in Markham. In July 2011 Han’s body was found buried in the basement. Toronto Star/Henry Stancu

Two men admit roles in high-profile kidnapping of Johnny Fei and Markham real estate agent Tony Han who died of a heart attack while confined
Published On Fri, 11 May 2012

After being kidnapped, businessman Johnny Fei and real estate agent Tony Han were held at this house on Edward Jeffreys Ave. in Markham. In July 2011 Han’s body was found buried in the basement.
Toronto Star/Henry Stancu
Betsy Powell
Courts Bureau

A man on Canada’s most wanted list, Guo Wei Wu, spent months methodically plotting to kidnap businessman Johnny Fei, watching his movements and learning details of his family life, a court has heard.

Then, using the false name Louis Chen, Wu allegedly sapproached well-known Markham real estate agent Jianguo (Tony) Han about buying Fei’s mansion at 1801 Featherston Dr. in Mississauga for $2.38 million.

On Jan. 19, 2011, Wu and seven accomplices abducted Fei and Han from the 15-room house, where they had gone to finalize the sale.

The chilling details of their week in captivity, and Han’s subsequent heart-attack death with his feet and hands locked in chains, were outlined in an agreed statement of facts read in a Brampton courtroom earlier this week when two men admitted their roles in the high-profile crime.

Sohaib Malik and Mikhail Troutanov pleaded guilty to two counts of kidnapping, while Malik also pleaded guilty to manslaughter. They have yet to be sentenced. A preliminary hearing for four other accused is scheduled to begin Monday. The Crown has withdrawn charges against one man.

Man arrested for alleged kidnapping, sexual assault

A Toronto man is facing charges after an alleged kidnapping and sexual assault.

Police say that around 1:42 a.m. on Sunday, a 21-year-old woman was in the in the Leslie Street and Eglinton Avenue area when she was taken by a man and driven to a home in the Bloor Street West and Lansdowne Avenue area. Police say she was sexually assaulted.

Rafael Silva, 24, of Toronto, has been arrested and charged with kidnapping, forcible confinement, and sexual assault.

He is scheduled to appear in court on Monday, May 7 at 10 a.m. at Old City Hall.

Javier Mauricio Castillo Cortes, a doctor, is charged with sexually assaulting two boys. (CBC)

Son asked if he was a ‘worthy person’ after assault
CBC News Posted: Jan 11, 2012 2:23 PM MT Last Updated: Jan 11, 2012 2:20 PM MT

A little boy asked his mother if he was still a “worthy person” after an alleged sexual assault by an Edmonton doctor, a judge was told Wednesday.

“Our lives changed. Our life was ruined,” the mother testified at the trial of Javier Castillo Cortes. “My husband is in a deep depression. My son is still seeing a psychologist.”
Javier Mauricio Castillo Cortes, a doctor, is charged with sexually assaulting two boys. (CBC)

4-year-old sexual assault victim released from hospital
Published 1 hour 16 minutes ago
Josh Tapper
Staff Reporter

A 4-year-old girl abducted from a north Toronto home and sexually assaulted was released from hospital on Tuesday.

The girl, who was visiting with family from Connecticut, was abducted early Monday morning from her grandparents’ home on Charleswood Dr., near Bathurst St. and Wilson Ave.