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The following story was written by veteran York Regional Police Communicator Leigh Bonnis, who dispatched officers in Richmond Hill when one of their colleagues was attacked on March 27, 2020.
It is a typical Friday afternoon in March. #2 District is steady. I’m excited about being off early and thinking about enjoying pizza dinner with my family in a few short hours. As I take a bite out of a granola bar, I hear a scream over the radio: “Get on the ground!”...
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Police make three arrests and link suspects to interprovincial crime spree Call it buyer’s remorse.
A small manufacturer’s tag with a bar code, torn loose from a Team Canada hockey bag, helped lead to the arrest of a trio of suspects responsible for a gun store robbery in Whitchurch-Stouffville.
Wearing gloves and masks, the three men broke into a weapons retailer and firing range just before 5 a.m. on January 23. The break-in triggered an alarm, but before...
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Project Cutter targets street-level drug trafficking in #1 District The cocaine was pure. A little too pure.
“This was definitely strange for street-level drug deals in Newmarket,” said Staff Sergeant Dave Ecklund, who led a property crime team in the #1 District Criminal Investigations Bureau (CIB).
Investigators also noticed that local drug dealers were becoming increasingly brazen, making daylight drug deals in coffee shops, parking lots and on busy street...
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Investigators take down a cocaine-dealing operation, seizing guns, drugs and cash When investigators saw guns flying out the second-storey window, they knew they had come to the right place.
“That’s definitely not something we see every day,” said Detective Constable David Strome, whose sharp eye led investigators to a successful firearm and drug bust.
Back in May 2018, Detective Constable Strome and fellow officers from the #4 District Criminal Investigations...
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Three years of persistence sends killer to prison for 50 years One on one with the lead detective Staring at the phone on August 14, 2015, Detective Kevin McCloskey reflected on the summer that had just passed.
“What summer?” he quipped, three years later. Truth is, for seven-and-ahalf weeks, the homicide investigator and his team had spent nearly every waking minute hunting a killer.
When the phone rang, he learned that the hunt was over. The work, however,...
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