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 The Crown has withdrawn charges against one man.

Jordan Morrison is pictured in this undated photo from a tribute page on Facebook.(HO- facebook / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

Verdict expected in death of Ontario man in Dominican

Jordan Morrison is pictured in this undated photo from a tribute page on Facebook.(HO- facebook / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

The Canadian Press

Date: Monday May. 7, 2012 6:35 AM ET

TORONTO — A verdict is expected today in the case of two men charged in the beating death of a Canadian man who was on vacation in the Dominican Republic.

Jordan Morrison, a 19-year-old resident of Barrie, Ont., was killed outside a resort nightclub in Punta Cana on Feb. 4, 2011.

Witnesses have said Morrison was attacked after he had come to the aid of a woman in a bar who was spit on.

Canadian citizen Dmytro Aref Yev and Algerian national Bouzid Redha, who were both 21 at the time, could face up to 20 years in jail if found guilty of homicide.

Their lawyer has said the men were drunk at the time of the fight and did not intend to kill Morrison and that the death was an accident.

Three other Canadian tourists were initially held in connection with the attack, but were released on bail after a judge decided they had no direct role in the fight.

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.

Four arrested in counterfeit goods raid at Dr. Flea’s

Four people were arrested and more than $1 million worth of knock-offs were seized when Toronto police executed two search warrants at a north Etobicoke flea market late last week.

Members of 23 Division’s Major Crime Unit raided Dr. Flea’s International Flea Market at 8 Westmore Dr. on Friday, April 27 and Sunday, April 29 after a three-month counterfeit investigation.

Police allege they seized numerous counterfeit items of clothing, toys, handbags and wallets in their search of 16 booths at the popular flea market. The value of the seized items is estimated at more than $1 million.

Also seized were 5,359 fraudulent DVDs, valued at $107,180.

The four people arrested now face 11 charges under the Copyright Act.

 

Dentention review hearing for Patrick Boehme, a 45-year-old German citizen in Vancouver, B.C., April 24, 2012. Photograph by: Arlen Redekop , PNG

Fugitive wanted for sex crimes in Germany arrested in Vancouver

By Lori Culbert, Postmedia News

VANCOUVER – A man who is wanted in Germany for sex crimes against a child that spanned four years was found hiding in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland and ordered deported Tuesday.

Patrick Boehme, 45, was arrested on Friday by Canada Border Services Agency officers, who began looking for the man in February after German police issued an arrest warrant for sexual interference with a minor.

At an Immigration and Refugee Board detention review hearing on Tuesday, Boehme’s lawyer, Sharon An, said her client admitted to having “sexual relations” with a girl while she was between the ages of 13 and 17.

The name of the girl and her relationship to Boehme is protected by a publication ban.

Roman Cisar is seen outside the provincial courthouse in Kitchener, Ont. on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012.

Man sentenced in software code theft case
Roman Cisar is seen outside the provincial courthouse in Kitchener, Ont. on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012.
CTV Kitchener

Date: Friday Apr. 20, 2012 11:23 AM ET

Roman Cisar, who was found guilty of stealing a secret software code from the Kitchener company where he worked, has been sentenced to 30 months behind bars.
The 50-year-old was convicted of the theft in February, and prosecutors also alleged that Cisar used the code to establish a new business in the Czech Republic.
The actual crime dates back to 1996 when the code, estimated to be worth over $15 million, was stolen from Kitchener’s Spicer Corporation.
Cisar has always maintainted he had an agreement with the late Steven Spicer, the company’s founder, to use the code.
In 2008, Waterloo’s Open Text Corp. purchased the Spicer Corporation, and is pursuing civil action against Cisar.
More to come.