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Only Crime frontman Russ Rankin told The Punk Site that the band has begun writing new material for what would be their third album.

Canadian Crime News, International

2009 06 03

That's the question asked by hundreds if not thousands of people who this online persona has savaged .

So, just who is ZoSo ?

ZoSo, and several other members who call themselves 'Goons' of the Somethingawful Forums regularly select and attack people who they feel deserve to be destroyed. Along with cohorts JackNapier and Rainbowkittens, they roam the web dishing out their own brand of perverted justice and malice.

What they lack in proof the fabricate. They accuse innocent people of the vilest deeds .No one is safe from their lies. Husbands, wives, children and even grandchildren of their selected victims are also attacked. No one is safe from these rogue cyber terrorists.

Canadian Crime News, International : Sex Offence charges

2009 04 15

By Terry Collins and Evelyn Nieves

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TRACY, Calif. — Authorities are looking for more evidence against a 28-year-old Sunday school teacher who was tearfully arraigned on charges she kidnapped, raped and murdered an eight-year-old girl.

Police on Tuesday searched for a second time the home where Melissa Chantel Huckaby lived just a few doors down from her daughter’s playmate, Sandra Cantu, who was found slain April 6, her body stuffed in a suitcase.

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2009 04 09

Colby Cosh

National Post

Several people have heard the story of farmer Brian Knight -- who shot and captured a thief who stole his all-terrain vehicle .

So pay attention, thieves: Only in Alberta are homeowners armed, and ready to shoot straight. Only in Alberta will you find a whole community closing in on you if you try to steal the equipment of a family business. Only in Alberta are we not content to sit quietly and wait for the police to arrive and copy serial numbers.

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2009 04 07

CHRISTIE BLATCHFORD

Globe and Mail

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TORONTO — It is no easy task facing Mr. Justice Ian Nordheimer of the Ontario Superior Court, who must decide whether JSR, the first person convicted in the notorious Boxing Day, 2005 slaying of bystander 15 year old Jane Creba, a Riverdale student, should be sentenced as the youth he barely was at the time of the shooting or as the adult he has barely become.

Then 17, now just 21, he was never alleged to have been the shooter who fired the fatal bullet. However, he was arrested shortly afterward with one of the guns that was used in the shootout on Yonge Street, and convicted of second-degree murder last December.

Canadian Crime News, National

2009 04 10

By PATRICIA BROOKS ARENBURG

The Chronicle Herald, Halifax, Nova Scotia

A man who stabbed a Cole Harbour cab driver almost to death in 2001 will remain on day parole for another two months.

But on June 7, Adam Emmanuel Diggs will be free to leave his undisclosed Alberta halfway house.

The former Halifax man was just 17 when he stabbed Michael Tran, slit his throat and left him slumped over the wheel of his taxi in a botched robbery in Fairview during the early hours of June 21, 2001.

All the Colours of Darkness - Peter Robinson WHILE he have been surrounded by some of the world's most striking landscapes in his adopted country of Canada, it was the sense of longing for the scenery of his ...

Canadian Crime News, National: Sex Offence charges

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Brampton, North York, Sex Offence charges

Community notifications are issued to enable people to take suitable measures to protect themselves.

By DON PEAT

SUN MEDIA

Salman Masood, 23, of Brampton, is charged with sexual interference and sexual assault.

Const. Curtis Quesnelle called the incident a "cautionary tale" for all families.

Police said the 13-year-old and a man met on an MSN chatline the night before and agreed to meet at a location near the girl's home.

Quesnelle said the girl told the North York mom she was going to shovel the driveway.

"Her mother looks out and she's not there and she followed the footprints in the snow to the vehicle," he said.

When she looked inside the vehicle, the mother saw her daughter being sexually assaulted, police said.

The man took off through the Sheppard Ave. W. and Sentinel Rd. neighbourhood with the daughter but the mom called 911, Toronto Police said.

The teen was dropped off and a man was caught by cops responding to the attempted abduction call.

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Coquitlam, British Columbia, Sex Offenders

By Keith Fraser

The Province, British Columbia

VANCOUVER a ' A former employee of a Vancouver-area daycare centre has been sentenced to two years less a day in jail for sex offences against a six-year-old girl.

Kyle David Lennax, 23, was convicted in B.C. Supreme Court in September of sexual assault, sexual touching of a child and invitation to sexual touching involving a child.

The six-foot, 300 pound man had touched the girl's genitals on more than one occasion, and had also French-kissed her and caused her to touch his penis and masturbate him.

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National Sex Offenders

Community notifications are issued to enable people to take suitable measures to protect themselves.

By Suzanne Fournier

Canwest Publishing Inc.

canada.com

The Province

The Province has learned that there are at least 121 federal inmates, most of them violent or sexual offenders, who have legally changed their names in prison. There are 29 prisoners in the Pacific region -- B.C. and the Yukon Territory -- living in prison under new names.

That doesn't include inmates who changed their names in jail and are now paroled with a new identity. As far as The Province was able to establish, no record is kept of how many ex-prisoners are living in the community under new names.

Corrections Canada spokesman Brandon Banks said that "when an inmate changes his or her name, a New Offender Admission Sheet is filled out and that is theoretically linked in all our records to the inmate's original name."

Banks said that "anyone has the authority to change their name, and that includes inmates -- if you or I changed our name there is no one we have to ask permission from.

"Only the registered victims of offenders would receive notification of the name change."

Kelly, described by a psychiatrist as "one of the most dangerous psychopaths I've ever encountered," snatched Genoa Jean May from her bed at 5 a.m. and then raped and murdered her before dumping her body.

Parole Board officials admit they can't explain why they lost track of Kelly when May first phoned four years ago for information. Nor can they explain why the same thing happened -- twice -- when The Province requested information about Kelly and was told both times he didn't exist.

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Victoria, British Columbia, Sex Offenders: Possession of Child Pornography

Community notifications are issued to enable people to take suitable measures to protect themselves.

RCMP in BC Press Release

File #2006-2733

On November 26th, 2008, Darin James Nieuwendorp, a Member of the Canadian Forces Maritime Forces Pacific, was sentenced for Possession of Child Pornography in a Victoria Courtroom. Nieuwendorp, now aged 25, pled guilty to charges relating from an investigation by British Columbia's Integrated Child Exploitation (BC ICE) Team in partnership with the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service, and the Victoria Police Department.

In August of 2006, Nieuwendorp was caught online by undercover police officers in an undisclosed chat room. On February 16th, 2006, Members with the BC ICE Team, a team of police officers dedicated to the investigation of Child Exploitation Offences within British Columbia, attended the residence of Nieuwendorp located in Victoria, and executed a Search Warrant. Nieuwendorp was arrested and later released that same day. A forensic examination of computers and various storage mediums seized at the residence were positive for images of Child Pornography.

Canadian Crime News, OMG's, Gangs & Organized Crime

By SAM PAZZANO, COURTS

Toronto Sun

A Hells Angels member-turned-informant has warned that anyone who dares to sell cocaine in the Niagara Region faces certain death from the biker gang, a Superior Court judge said yesterday.

Stephen Gault, former secretary of the Angels' Oshawa chapter, made the comment while testifying at the drug trial of Gerald "Skinny" Ward, Justice John McMahon said in reading his judgment convicting Ward of having proceeds of crime, trafficking in cocaine and benefitting a criminal organization. Ward, 60, the executive and founding member of the Angels' Niagara chapter, will be sentenced Feb. 27.

"They (Angels) have complete control in the whole Niagara region. Anyone who steps in there, they'll kill him pointblank," McMahon quoted from the testimony of Gault. "You don't play with their game ... all their lives are built upon drug dealing," Gault said in his testimony while explaining the workings of the biker gang.

Gault testified that people join the Angels for "the power of the patch" -- which provides them protection -- but must pay the club 10% of their criminal proceeds and monthly dues for a legal defence fund for those facing prosecution. Members must vow not to cheat anyone on drug deals, court heard.

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Toronto, Ontario, Sex Offenders

By SAM PAZZANO

TORONTO Sun

TORONTO -- A simple-minded volunteer daycare worker was sentenced yesterday to the equivalent of 3 1/2 years in prison after admitting he performed oral sex on two five-year-olds.

Paul Thomas, 21, who court heard has the intellectual capacity of a nine-year-old, was also prohibited from attending public areas where children frequent and will be listed on the national sex offender registry for 20 years. He was to get counselling and serve three years of probation.

Thomas, who was deemed a low- to moderate-risk to re-offend, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual interference and two counts of invitation to sexual touching involving two boys at the city-run Blevins Child Care Centre between April 2006 and April 2007.

He spent 20 months in pre-trial custody -- which counts as 42 months -- and was given an extra day in jail and probation by Justice Bonnie Croll.

"Thomas started a club called the 'J' club inside the blue room at the daycare where only he and select children were allowed in. The children received prizes and candy and he gave one victim a silver necklace with a dollar-sign pendant," Crown Jill Witkin said in an agreed statement of facts.

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Kelowna, British Columbia, Sex Offenders

By KEVIN MARTIN

The Calgary Sun

CALGARY -- Chad Karacsonyi, who now lives in Kelowna, pleaded guilty yesterday a single charge of possession of child pornography in connection with the April 14, 2007, discovery by his girlfriend.

Karacsonyi, 33, admitted having a collection of images and videos of girls as young as three or four being sexually abused.

His girlfriend, Bernice Smith, discovered the porn when she clicked on a folder containing images he downloaded using an Internet peer-to-peer program.

Smith took the laptop to the Calgary Police Service District 6 office and turned it over. A forensic expert later uncovered 1,660 images and 71 videos. Karacsonyi returns to court March 20.

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Edmonton, Alberta, Sex Offenders

Community notifications are issued to enable people to take suitable measures to protect themselves.

Submitted by High Risk Enforcement and Apprehension Team.

A warrant is out for the arrest of Dana Fash, 30, who has been on statutory release since late November. He allegedly breached a release condition to abstain from alcohol or drugs and, as a result, a warrant has been issued for his arrest. Fash was recently released from prison after serving several years for sexual assault with a weapon, break and enter and commit sexual assault, use of disguise to commit crime, and robbery.

Age:30 years DOB 1978, September 22

Height:6'1"

Weight:270 lbs.

Fash has brown eyes and brown hair. He may have a shaved head and a shorter goatee than seen in the attached picture.

In November 1994, Fash forced his way into a 65-year-old woman's Mill Woods home and threatened her with a knife. She escaped, but Fash followed and raped her in her snow-covered backyard. The woman has since passed away.

The following month he was armed with scissors when he raped a 44-year-old janitor in a staff washroom at a Mill Woods school.

If you have information that may assist in identifying the individual(s) pictured on this site or any infor- mation related to a serious crime Call 1-800-222-TIPS (8477)

Canadian Crime News, International: Stupid Crimes Award

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

via CNews, canoe.ca

VALENTINE, Neb. (AP) —A man dubbed the 'Butt Bandit' for making greasy imprints of his nether parts on windows in the north-central Nebraska city of Valentine has been sentenced to more than a year in jail.

Cherry County Attorney Eric Scott says police caught 35-year-old Thomas Larvie in the act on Nov. 19.

Scott says Larvie was sentenced Thursday to 13 1/2 months in jail after being convicted of eight misdemeanor counts of public indecency and one of disturbing the peace.

Authorities said Larvie used lotion or petroleum jelly to make imprints of his naked behind — and sometimes his groin — on the windows of stores, churches and schools in Valentine beginning in the spring of 2007.

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Toronto, Ontario, Sex Offences: human trafficking

By TAMARA CHERRY, SUN MEDIA

Toronto Sun

Two more men with alleged ties to a Nova Scotia gang notorious for its pimping culture have been charged with human trafficking west of Toronto.

Stefano Jemile Dixon, 19, originally from Nova Scotia, and Jordan Isaiah Cromwell, 21, of Burlington, were each charged with human trafficking, material benefit from human trafficking, withholding documents for human trafficking, forcible confinement and possession of marijuana. Dixon was charged also with assault and sexual exploitation. Two of the human trafficking cases before courts in Peel Region involve alleged members of the Nova Scotia gang, which, according to gang expert Michael Chettleburgh, has about two dozen active members confirmed in Peel Region alone.

Guns and gangs cops in Burlington identified a waterfront townhouse about a year ago as having ties to North Preston's Finest, a Nova Scotia street gang that has been linked to two of Peel Region's human trafficking cases since expanding west.

The Lakeshore Rd. townhouse, just east of Skyway Arena, was raided this week after a 17-year-old girl told police she had been held there between her forced shifts as an exotic dancer in Mississauga.

The illicit tale began in early November when the teen met a young Nova Scotia man through some friends.

"Their stock in trade back East and now in Ontario is running the women, prostitution rings -- human trafficking is just a broader term -- as well as drug trade, which obviously goes hand in hand," Chettleburgh said.

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Edmonton, Alberta, Sex Offenders

By TONY BLAIS, COURT BUREAU

The Edmonton Sun

EDMONTON -- A former Edmonton soldier yesterday admitted raping a city woman as well as assaulting her and threatening to "take a knife to her" and "cut her eyes and throat out." Thomas Joseph Pidgeon, 38, pleaded guilty in provincial court to charges of sexual assault causing bodily harm and unlawful confinement. A judge ordered Pidgeon, a former private with 1 Field Ambulance, who is now out of the military and living in Ontario, to have a pre-sentence report and psychiatric assessment prepared for a March 12 sentencing hearing.

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Brandon ,Manitoba, Sex Offenders

By: Ian Hitchen

Winnipeg Free Press

BRANDON -- A Shilo-based soldier who was caught with a large collection of child pornography following his online chat with an FBI agent has been sentenced to 18 months in jail.

John Arthur Bradley has served his country in Afghanistan twice, but his repulsive online activity undermines the things his colleagues are fighting for, said Crown attorney Jim Ross — the right for people to live a life of dignity, free of abuse.

Bradley’s seized computer contained more than 8,000 child porn images and he pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography and distributing child pornography in September.

His CFB Shilo home was raided in January after an online exchange of messages with a Detroit-based FBI agent.

That agent posted a profile of herself at a Yahoo chatroom used by people interested in pedophilia and incest. It included a picture and portrayed her as an attractive single mother with two daughters aged three years and six years.

Bradley contacted the woman on March 5, 2007 and began a two-month series of chats.

He wrote that he’d like to have sex with the woman and her girls, sent the agent a picture of himself and a picture of girls in bikini tops who he claimed were his daughters.

At one point he told the agent he lives in Manitoba and they exchanged phone numbers and toward the end of the online exchanges he tried to arrange a meeting with the woman and her children.

However, Ross noted it isn’t illegal to chat about child porn.

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Calgary, Alberta, Sex Offenders

CBC News,Calgary

A former volunteer at a Calgary church has been sentenced to two years in jail and two years probation for molesting three girls in his care.

Kelly Malcolm Grant admitted to molesting three girls over eight years, starting in 1994 while volunteering with the Centre Street Church in Calgary.

Earlier this year, Grant had pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual touching of girls under the age of 14 and two counts of sexual exploitation while being in a position of trust.

Grant had been a youth ministry volunteer at the Centre Street Church before moving with his wife and three children to another Calgary church in 2004.

Grant admitted to molesting three girls — two of them sisters — over eight years, starting in 1994 while volunteering with the Centre Street Church. The court heard that Grant fondled and kissed the girls on out-of-town church trips and in his vehicles. They reported the incidents in 2005, sparking a police investigation and the subsequent charges.

He placed a number of conditions on Grant's release, including a ban on working with women under the age of 18 while on probation. Ten other charges against Grant were stayed when he pleaded guilty in June.