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"Project 24K" proves Greater Toronto a really multicultural city

Today, 17 April 2024, is the first anniversary of the Great YYZ Gold Heist. (Regular readers will know that YYZ is the airport code for Toronto's Pearson airport.) This was the largest theft of gold in Canadian history, and possibly the sixth-largest in the history of the world. Here's a CCTV image of (police say) the robbery in progress.

According to the Peel Regional Police, the take was 6,600 gold bars, valued at over C$20 million ($14.5 million in real money) and roughlyC$2.5 million in folding money. The gold and currency was ordered from a refinery in Zurich, Switzerland, then transported in a container through an Air Canada flight that landed at YYZ at 1556.EDT.

The cargo was then offloaded to an Air Canada cargo facility, where, a couple of hours later, a suspect arrived at the facility with a "fraudulent airway bill...for a legitimate shipment of seafood that was picked up the day before." A police spokesthingy told the meeja today, "This duplicate airway bill was printed off from a printer within an Air Canada cargo facility." 

Shortly thereafter, a forklift arrived with a container of gold and foreign currency and was loaded into the rear of the suspect’s truck. He then hauled ass with the haul. [You're not quoting the copper, right? Ed.] Almost six hours after the plane landed, Brink’s Canada employees arrived at the Air Canada cargo site to collect up the shipment of gold and currency, only to be told it had already been picked up. Everyone had a good think overnight, and called the cops the next morning.

An investigation dubbed "Project 24K" was launched right away... kind of... and has now identified nine suspects, who have been arrested, charged or had Canada-wide warrants issued against them. Let's see who they are.

Durante King-Mclean, a 25-year-old resident of Brampton ON, has been identified as the driver who allegedly stole the cargo from the airport. It was his bad luck to be stopped last September by a Pennsylvania state trooper, who found dozens of illegal firearms inside his rented car. 

Police say the driver ran away but was arrested shortly after. He appeared to be illegally in the United States, and when they checked him on the police database, it flagged him as wanted by Peel police. 

When troopers opened the Nissan’s trunk, they didn’t find gold bars, but 65 guns instead, that were destined to be smuggled into Canada, according to an indictment filed in the US of A. Besides the guns, American investigators found messages between King-Mclean and Prasath Paramalingam, 35, another Bramptonian. Paramalingam sent King-Mclean a photograph of large amounts of Canadian currency wrapped in stacks with rubber bands. 

Paramalingam and another unnamed person from Toronto flew from Toronto to New York City to deliver money to King-Mclean. Five days later, Paramalingam flew back to Toronto via Miami. King-Mclean stayed in Fort Lauderdale, where he allegedly took several photos of guns and large amounts of real money. He left Florida in August 2023 in a rental vehicle and drove north. That's when he was stopped just outside Washington DC by Pennsylvania state troopers. 

In today's presser, Peel police named nine people identified and/or charged as a result of  Project 24K. Arrested in Canada were: 

Parmpal Sidhu, 54, of Brampton [Again? Ed.] who was named as an Air Canada employee. He is charged with theft over $5,000 and conspiracy to commit an indictable offence; 

Amit Jalota, 40, from Oakville, charged with possession of property obtained by crime, theft over $5,000, and conspiracy to commit an indictable offence; 

Ammad Chaudhary, 43, from Georgetown, charged with accessory after the fact; 

Ali Raza, a 37-year-old jewelry store owner from Toronto, charged with possession of property obtained by crime; and 

Prasath Paramalingam, charged with accessory after the fact.

Durante King-Mclean, the alleged getaway driver, is formally listed as wanted by Peel police, although he is in custody in the United States.

Peel police are also searching for:

Simran Preet Panesar, a 31-year-old Brampton man who was an Air Canada employee at the time of the theft but resigned after the heist. He is wanted for theft over $5,000 and conspiracy to commit an indictable offence.

Archit Grover, 36, from Brampton, pictured at right [Sorry, Walt, this is the only photo I could find. Ed.] is considered a fugitive in Canada and the United States. In Canada. He is wanted for theft over $5,000 and conspiracy to commit an indictable offence. In the US. he is accused of helping King-Mclean after his roadside arrest and hindering the investigation, including removing possible evidence from the Floridea Airbnb where King-Mclean stayed, and arranging a $1000 payment to the car rental agency for an amended rental agreement. 

Arsalan Chaudhary, 42, from Mississauga, wanted for theft over $5,000, possession of property obtained by crime and conspiracy to commit and indictable offence.

Reading through that list of names, Walt is struck by the apparent ethnicity of the suspects. Not an Irishman among them! With the exception of "Jimmy" Durante King-Mclean, they all appear to be... errr... south Asian. Paramalingam is a Lankan name. The rest are probably Indians, some of them Sikhs. By their turbans ye shall know them, and large numbers of them work in and around Pearson Airport.

I mention this because I'm reminded of Project Kraken, about which I wrote in "'Project Kraken' proves Greater Toronto a really multicultural city", WWW 29/6/19 -- one of our most-read articles. Project Kraken had to do with drugs and guns. I've asked Ed. to find out if any of the same names appear in the list of those charged in that case, but he hasn't got back to me yet. [Don't hold your breath. Our readers got the point already. Ed.]

How Canuck lamestream media "whitewash" news of black crime

There was another shooting in northwest Toronto last night. Gangbangers are a real menace in certain parts of "Toronto the Good", which is fast becoming a world-class city, like, errr, Chicago. 95% of the time, the victims are black and so are the perps. Everyone who watches the local newscasts knows it -- just watch the videos of bodies, alive and dead, being wheeled away from the scene on gurneys -- but the (((controlled media))) are deliberately colour-blind on that point.

Particularly reluctant to admit that black crime is a serious problem in the "Greater Toronto Area" is Canada's state-owned broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and its flagship TV station, CBLT. Here's a screen grab of how CBC News reported last night's "incident".

Contrast the last sentence of the text with Inspector Knacker's tweet, immediately below. Notice the missing word in the CBC's suspect description? You might think "independent" media would be a little more honest and realistic, but now that they are to receive some C$650,000,000 from the Liberal government because, as everyone knows, the media are struggling financially, they are being even more circumspect than the CBC. The CBC's biggest rival, CTV, didn't give any suspect information at all!

Further reading: "'Project Kraken' proves Greater Toronto a really multicultural city", WWW 29/6/19.

"Project Kraken" proves Greater Toronto a really multicultural city

The Toronto Police Service [sic] (not exactly as pictured) assisted by forces from around the Greater Toronto [sic] Area, had a busy time in the pre-dawn hours of Thursday morning.

Following an eigh-month-long investigation -- dubbed "Project Kraken" -- into drugs and guns in the GTA, the boys in black did what they love to do -- dress up like soldiers and break into people's houses and apartments. The raids resulted in the arrest of 55 people. Add in 18 previously arrested for a total of 73, now charged with a grand total of 599 offences.

Who are these people (I hear you ask)? Where did they come from? Are they "old-stock Canadians", or perhaps "new Canadians" imported from the shitholes of the Caribbean, the Middle East and Africa. Inspector Knacker does not keep (or, perhaps, disclose) details of race, religion, or citizenship status. All we can do is peruse the list of names, as released by the TPS, and take an educated guess. Click on the link if you want to see details of who's charged with what. Don't expect any surprises.

Here, in alphabetical order except for No. 1, is the list of those charged. [This could take a while. Ed.]

1) Young offender (formerly known as "juvenile delinquent), of Toronto; 2) Aydid Adan, 31, of Toronto; 3) Mohamed Aden, 21, of Toronto; 4) Yasir Aden, 22, of Toronto; 5) Anas Ahmed, 22, of Waterloo

6) Tamim Ahmmadzai, 29, of Thornhill; 7) Fayaz Alakoozi, 24, of Ajax; 8) Nabil Amem, 30, of Newmarket; 9) Tamim Amem, 26, of Markham; 10) Alhaji Bangura, 31, of Ajax

11) Travis Bell, 27, of Oshawa; 12) Bobby Boating, 24, of no fixed address; 13) Salvatore Boccia, 32, of Toronto; 14) Mark Bollers, 29, of Toronto; 15) Jacob Braithwaite, 27, of Brampton; 16) Khadeono Burgess, 27, of Toronto

17) Attilio Commisso, 32, of Maple; 18) Cosimo Commisso, 74, of Thornhill; 19) Giovanni Commisso, 60, of Woodbridge; 20) Girolamo Commisso, 30, of Toronto (The family that plays together...)

21) Mekhi Cuffie, 21, of Markham; 22) Justain Dillon, 45, of Mississauga; 23) Kevin Douglas, 24, of Toronto; 24) Catherine Duffy, 44, of Toronto; 25) Treshawn Duffy, 24, of Toronto

26) Anthony Edwards, 29, of Toronto; 27) Rowan Gayle, 27, of Toronto; 28) Byra Ghafoor, 23, of Toronto; 29) Omer Gharibzada, 26, of Whitby; 30) Alexis Gomez, 23, of Toronto

31) Javade Gray (gray = black + white?), 29, of no fixed address; 32) Ed Greco, 42, of Sudbury; 33) Addul Nabi Hadi, 28, of Toronto; 34) Abdul Sami Hadi, 22, of Toronto; 35) Addul Wasi Hadi, 30, of Toronto; 36) Abdullahi Hassan, 20, of Toronto; 37) Houssein Hassan, 24, of Toronto

38) Tyler Henry, 29, of no fixed address; 39) Gabriel Khoury, 33, of Whitby; 40) Renee Korchinski Beals, 27, of Toronto; 41) Devon Lewis, 25, of Toronto; 42) Shemar Lue, 23, of Ajax; 43) Sergei Manukian, 30, of Aurora; 44) Arielle Maxwell-Rodney, 29, of Toronto; 45) Henok Mebratu, 26, of no fixed address;

46) Makador Mohamed, 25, of Innisfil; 47) Shahabeldin Mohamed, 23, of Toronto; 48) Sasha Morid, 24, of Toronto; 49) Maurice Mullings, 30, of Toronto; 50) Jahche Myers, 26, of Toronto

51) Shadab Nabizada, 29, of Toronto; 52) Deshayne Newman, 24, of Toronto; 53) Tyrel Osborn, 26, of Ottawa; 54) Chad Pillay, 27, of Toronto; 55) Trevor Poland, 33, of Sudbury

56) Karen Pringle, 44, of Toronto; 57) Mustafa Qazi, 28, of Toronto; 58) Omaid Rahmani, 22, of Ajax; 59) Kennedy Richards-Coleman, 26, of Toronto; 60) Kordell Richards-Coleman, 25, of Toronto:

61) Narisa Riel, 28, of Ottawa; 62) Eryk Rivard, 45, of Sudbury; 63) Clayton Robichaud, 28, of Hamilton; 64) Daniel Robinson, 41, of Toronto; 65) Karine Rouleau, 24, of Oakville

66) Hasibullah Sakhiyar, 25, of Whitby; 67) Marvin Toussaint, 28, of Oakville; 68) Jermaine Williams, 27, of Toronto; 69) Jhelisha Wilson, 23, of Toronto; 70) Le Keisha Wocker, 25, of Mississauga

71) Chenelle Woods-Francis, 25, of Toronto; 72) Christopher Wright, 31, of Ajax; 73) Thong Yi, 50, of Markham

Errr... that's it. Don't be telling me it's all those damn Muslim refugees. I only counted 3 Mohammeds and a couple of Abduls. The others are a real mixed bag, a fine fine example of the inclusivity and multiculturalism that makes "Greater Toronto" what it is today. "Diversity is our strength!" (copyright, J. Trudeau)

UPDATED: NBA championship celebrations: a black day for Toronto

Agent 3 was born in Toronto and went to school there for a time, in the daze when it was "Toronto the Good". Now he avoids the self-styled "world-class city" like the plague. A report sent to us last night explains why.

Last Friday, Canada's only NBA team, the Raptors, defied the odds-makers and denigrators of Toronto sports teams (Hello, Poor Len!) by winning Game 6 of the NBC championship series, beating the Golden State Warriors in a very close, seesaw battle. Cue pandemonium in downtown Toronto, including a shooting that took place as celebrations were wrapping up. Inspector Knacker said a 19-year-old man became involved in an altercation with another man, who produced a gun, shot the 19-year-old man and continued to shoot even as the man had fallen with life-threatening injuries.

The suspect then fled with a group of friends, but was stopped by cops who were surveilling [Is this a word? Ed.] the area. Guns and drugs were seized. Charges were laid against... wait for it... Abdulrahman Abdullahi, Kamal Hassan, Ilyas Riyaleh, Jovane Watson, Zachary Cust and Nathaniel Campbell, all from Toronto.

While the [insert adjective] Six were appearing in court on Monday, well over a million basketball lovers were converging on Nathan Phillips Square (= city hall square) for the official celebration. Canuck Prime Minister Just In Trudeau, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, and Toronto Mayor John Tory (a liberal, in spite of his surname) were on hand to gush about diversity being Canada's strength and how the Raptors were "Canada's team" even though not a single player was born in the Great No-longer-white North.

Just as the circle jerk was getting under way, shots rang out near the south-east corner of the square. Police originally said that that two people were found with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries near Bay and Albert streets. Toronto's head cop (who is black, by the way) later told the meeja that the number of wounded was, errr, four. "Officers arrived relatively quickly," he said, "and as a result of that three people were arrested in total, two on one incident and one on another."

Investigators also said that two firearms had been recovered. No information was provided regarding charges or the identities or diversity of those arrested. Earlier in the day, four people were injured in two separate stabbing incidents near the Eaton Centre, a popular hangout for certain types, just northeast of city hall. Police have not made any connection between any of the incidents, except maybe the common thread which cannot be mentioned for reasons of political correctness.

In a statement released sometime later, Toronto Mayor John Tory had nothing to say about the "incident" except that "it is disappointing and I'm sure a source of anger for more than just me that anyone would carry a gun and discharge it at what was otherwise a joyous celebration. I hope those found responsible will be held to account to the full extent that the law permits."

He didn't say anything about the elephant in the room, which is Toronto's ongoing problem with black crime, which is one of the poisoned fruits of Canada's open-door policy on immigration, begun 50 years ago by Trudeau Père. Hands up, all those who think that the perpetrators (and victims) of the violence which marred the celebrations were white, old-stock Canadians. Anybody? I thought not. Says Agent 3, "I could have cleaned up betting on that, but couldn't find a bookie who would give more than 3 to 1."

UPDATE ADDED at 1617: The Toronto Police Service [sic] has released the names of the three men arrested at the scene of the shooting: They are Shaquille Anthony Miller, Thaino Toussaint, and Abdikarim Kerow. They all face a number of firearms and drug charges, but the coppers haven't hit them with attempted murder... yet.

Further reading: "Raptors parade was a disaster on many levels", by Steve Simmons, Toronto Sun, 18/6/19

Further viewing: "Diversity Our Strength" - stream of consciousness about the "diverse city" (geddit?) with (Torontonian) Faith J. Goldy, 18/6/19