Tow Truck War in Southern Ontario

https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/east-end-vehicle-fires-tied-to-tow-truck-turf-war

East end vehicle fires tied to tow truck turf war?

The bikers have controlled the tow trucks here in the gta for years.

This war is fucked a 17 year old kid who just started driving got shot yesterday and 30 trucks so far have been burned

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5468799

‪In the GTA’s tow-truck turf wars, the race for profit leads to road rage, violence and intimidation

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/can...-wars-the-race-for-profit-leads-to-road/

New Developments ... the following is a tweet from Toronto CP24 News

"BREAKING: York Regional Police have arrested 20 people and laid hundreds of charges, including first-degree murder, in connection with a joint-forces investigation into a long-simmering turf war involving the towing industry."

https://twitter.com/CP24/status/1265267849427333121?s=20

Expecting a lot more info over next 48 hours for sure.

Full YRP Media Release: https://icreate.yrp.ca/230002_iCrea...oad/bc418a5a-9102-4abc-aeb9-f72cf16acac1

Full Charge List: https://icreate.yrp.ca/230002_iCrea...oad/cd74bda7-3330-4dd7-9752-6ee61476a65d

Police arrest 20, lay dozens of charges in tow-truck turf war investigation dubbed ‘Project Platinum’ - Jacob Lorinc Toronto Star


https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...k-turf-war-investigation-police-say.html

Project Platinum blows the lid off organized crime infiltration of towing industry - Michael Talbot 680 News Toronto

https://www.680news.com/2020/05/26/...d-crime-infiltration-of-towing-industry/

Adrian Humphryes tweeted just now ..

"A Toronto police officer is among ten people charged in an anti-corruption and organized crime investigation linked to southern Ontario’s vicious towing war. More to come."


Tweet

Followed by:

"The internal police probe focused on the theft and cloning of encrypted police radios allegedly used by tow truck drivers from several tow companies to learn of traffic collisions and be first to the scene, raking in the dough. Story to come."

2nd Tweet

Read the Toronto Police Services news releases from today by going to http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/newsreleases/47375 and http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/newsreleases/47378.

Veteran Toronto officer aided organized crime in GTA tow truck industry, police say By Peter Edwards (Toronto Star)

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...huGkSNL7l1-HIyaanPDMILd_K5a8o9Q2kYIrdOQs

From this past weekend's Toronto Star:

‘Everybody’s afraid’: How biker gangs and organized crime muscled in on the GTA tow truck industry - Peter Edwards (Toronto Star)

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...ed-in-on-the-gta-tow-truck-industry.html

On the downside, local tow truck drivers are bumping shoulders with what York Regional Police say are at least four organized crime groups in an industry that has seen a series of four murders and scores of arsons, shootings and threats over the past 18 months.

I wonder what are the four groups that are in this industry

Ndrangheta, hell’s angels, a Ukrainian group, and Chester le gang although whether or not chester le gang are truly organized crime is debatable

And a sirlankan group

Heck maybe even sicilians are involved this industry makes crazy money

All of these groups are at war?

Cop is key player in Tow Truck War.

https://www.gangsterismout.com/2020/06/toronto-cop-ronald-joseph-key-player-in.html?m=1

The tow truck wars in Brooklyn & Queens in the seventies were fun.

Why do these guys fight over rocks, why not corner the high-end tiling industry or the florist industry or something else.

Yea it's a cluster fuck

Several Toronto police officers have been suspended with pay as part of what police describe as a “very active” investigation into corruption in the tow truck industry. - Latest from Peter Edwards (Toronto Star)


https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...n=&utm_campaign_id=&utm_content=

And it looks like another victim in this war ... (Eastern rural town East of Toronto and part of the Greater Toronto Area)

'Not a random attack:' One person rushed to hospital following shooting in Pickering - Pickering News

https://www.durhamregion.com/news-s...n=&utm_campaign_id=&utm_content=

News photojournalist Jeremy Cohn is reporting that his sources indicate this is related to the GTA tow truck dispute

link to his tweet: https://twitter.com/JeremyCohnTV/status/1288086065761472512?s=20

^^^^^^

Four Suspects Wanted in Pickering Shooting Incident https://members.drps.ca/internet_ex...se&Scope=&Scope_ID=&ID=35770

WARNING .. GRAPHIC ... POLICE RELEASE VIDEO OF THE SHOOTING

Suspects flee in tow trucks after Scarborough shooting

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...w-trucks-after-scarborough-shooting.html

Officer arrests in tow truck bribery scandal prompt change of command at Toronto-area OPP detachments

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...and-at-toronto-area-opp-detachments.html


GTA tow truck guard, 19, was handed illegal gun before his shooting death, family says in $2.45-million lawsuit

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...-family-says-in-245-million-lawsuit.html

Two people arrested and charged in Project Platinum in May of last year have just been arrested and charged in relation to a shooting incident that happened in February of last year. The two individuals are Omer Zahawi and Filippo Genova.

CHARGES LAID IN CONNECTION WITH A 2020 SHOOTING IN VAUGHAN

https://www.yrp.ca/en/Modules/News/index.aspx?newsId=7e027539-a5db-44ef-b257-84d05efad2bf

Hamilton Police investigating the shooting of a tow truck driver in his 20s .

Twitter link: https://twitter.com/ACollinsPhoto/status/1463908280548438017

Article to which I've linked below is currently behind a paywall.

Kickbacks. Unauthorized searches. An arson conspiracy: Police documents detail Toronto cop’s alleged role in GTA tow truck corruption
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...ed-role-in-gta-tow-truck-corruption.html

Inside the Tow Truck Mafia: How Organized Crime Took Over Canada’s Towing Industry

https://www.thedrive.com/news/44749...-crime-took-over-canadas-towing-industry

Published online this past Wednesday:

Tow-truck war investigation partially collapses, another blow to York police's major projects
https://www.yorkregion.com/news-sto...er-blow-to-york-police-s-major-projects/

^^^^
6 accused in GTA tow-truck industry violence case off the hook as prosecution case partially collapses
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/project-platinum-tow-truck-partial-collapse-1.6471306

‘Do you want to grow old? Then stop suing my friend’: Toronto man gets 12 years in tow truck intimidation case
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...ears-in-tow-truck-intimidation-case.html

Toronto Police Service News Release

Homicide #17/2024
Finch Avenue West and Dufferin Street area,
Update, Victim Image Released

Unit:
Homicide and Missing Persons Unit

Case #: 2024-671809 Published: Friday, March 29, 2024, 2:56 PM

https://tps.to/59214

^^^^
Slain tow truck kingpin had a target on his back for years, court documents show
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/tow-truck-kingpin-target-1.7178269