39-year-old Claudia Iacono, the wife of one of the sons of deceased Calabrian mafioso Moreno Gallo, was shot multiple times in broad daylight, police said.
As the Montreal Canadiens secured their place in the Stanley Cup final, there were makeshift parades, some tear gas and a guy on a hoverboard directing traffic.
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Police in the Innisfil region collared a man yesterday following the recovery of a stolen vehicle from the watery depths of Lake Simcoe.
The gendarmes were called to a marina on Shore Acres Drive, just south of Barrie and about an hour north of Toronto. They were responding to a middle-of-the-night dunking of a vehicle that had “entered the water” in the area. The car turned out to be empty but it was quickly determined the machine had been stolen from Hanover the day prior. Calling on the K9 Unit, the suspect was tracked to a nearby building and apprehended.
Cops strongly suspect the victim caught the thieves off-guard during their alleged caper, forcing them to quickly flee. In the process of scampering away like rats, they apparently dropped a saw blade of the type generally used to cut metal, plus the wallet. Not their first rodeo, the RCMP officers rightly assumed the ne’er-do-wells would return to look for the missing ID.
After a short stakeout, they stopped two men who were circling the area in a vehicle. It didn’t take long for the gendarmes to determine the dropped identification matched one of the car’s occupants. Also found aboard the car? The suspected stolen catalytic converter.
Abbotsford RCMP adopted the system the following day, and other jurisdictions are also showing interest.
In the capital region, 800 people have already signed up for the system s "crime alert" feature, and 28 are registered for multiple alerts, Victoria police spokesman Sgt. Grant Hamilton said.
"Alerts are where you can flag a particular area and be notified of any crime that gets posted in that area," he said.
The CrimeReports system, which will cost the department about $150 per month, plots crime data with Google-based technology, allowing the public to see what is going on in their neighbourhoods and giving officers a view of crime trends.