Petro Canada gas station a male produced a hand gun

three males entered the Petro Canada gas station kiosk at 1123 Dorval Drive in Oakville. One male produced a hand gun and told the clerk to look at the ground. All three males then proceeded to open the cash register and remove an undisclosed amount of money. The three males used a garbage bag to collect a large amount of cigarettes. There were no injuries during the robbery. The suspects were seen leaving the area in dark vehicle displaying blue headlights.
Suspect 1: White, approximately 5’6", average build, wearing black baseball cap with white buttons, black bandana covering lower half of his face, dark plaid jacket with light stripes and grey jeans.
Suspect 2: White, approximately 5’6," heavy build, wearing a white baseball cap with black “NY” on the front left of the cap, black bandana covering the face and lime green t-shirt.
Suspect 3: Not-white, approximately 5’6", heavy build, wearing a white baseball cap with an unknown design on the front, cap was very low over the top portion of his face with a dark bandana and white design covering the lower part of his face, white t-shirt.

Since the murders of Mark Moloney and James Cronin six homes had just been hit by machine gun fire

The garda crack squad, the Emergency Response Unit (ERU), were drafted into Limerick over two weeks ago to quell the trouble and augment armed patrols and checkpoints.
Six homes had just been hit by machine gun fire after a stolen car with a false taxi sign fixed to the roof entered St Mary's Park. The Collopy gang were the intended targets but neighbouring adults and children had to dive for cover.
Residents in socially deprived estates believed that the arrival of the ERU would put a halt to gun crime. However, since the ERU arrived, the gangland violence has been defiantly stepped up.Drugs well in excess of €1m have been seized in the past three weeks. Firearms and ammunition have been seized on a regular basis in waste ground or at the rear of homes.
Crime and gang-related activity in Limerick is rarely out of the headlines, but it exploded this week.
Since the murders of Mark Moloney (40) and James Cronin (20), every person in Limerick has been made well aware of their city's lethal underworld.

Chief Superintendent Willie Keane has appealed for the gangs to step back from the brink but the violence shows no signs of subsiding.

A man had to brought to the ground by a taser gun by ERU officers on Thursday night. He was subsequently found to be armed with a loaded Glock 9mm handgun.

Yesterday, less than two hours after mourners made their way home from the grave of James Cronin, Garda reinforcements had to race to Delmege Park, Moyross, after firemen tending to a derelict house fire were stoned by a gang of youths in broad daylight.

A black week for Limerick. Now the debate is about whether the worst of the violence has been left behind, or if further horror lies around the corner.

Lamont McCray, 30, of Oakwood Road in Kingstree is charged with possession of a stolen gun

Lamont McCray, 30, of Oakwood Road in Kingstree is charged with possession of a stolen gun, Ford said.The father of a boy who police say brought a loaded gun on a school bus is charged in connection with the case, Kingstree Police Chief Robert Ford said.The 13-year-old Kingstree Elementary School student brought the gun on the bus Tuesday afternoon, pointed at a 7-year-old girl and threatened to kill her, Ford said.Police ran a background check on the gun soon after the incident and discovered the .9 mm semi-automatic pistol was reported stolen in Laurens County, Ford said. The suspect told police he didn’t know the gun was stolen.McCray turned himself into police Friday and has cooperated with investigators, Ford said.
McCray appeared before a judge for a bond hearing Friday afternoon where he posted a $5,000 cash or surety bond.

Stun gun used to subdue two people at a Westchester County wedding reception

Police are acknowledging they used a stun gun to subdue two people at a Westchester County wedding reception after a ruckus erupted over the band. The two _ the groom and the couple's daughter _ were arrested at Saturday's event, as was the bride.
Port Chester Police Lt. James Ladeairous says officers followed department guidelines allowing them to use a Taser stun gun when they can't otherwise get control of a suspect. The 21-year-old daughter says she and her father were left with bruises. Both were arrested on misdemeanor charges of obstructing governmental administration and resisting arrest. The bride was arrested on a felony criminal mischief charge. The daughter says the couple was legally married 22 years ago but had a long-delayed church wedding Saturday.

One officer was shot in the jaw, another in the shoulder

One officer was shot in the jaw, another in the shoulder, police Lt. Walt Krumbach said. Both were taken to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and are said to be stable. Neither of the injuries are believed to be life threatening.Two police officers wounded in a shootout at a movie theater that killed a suspect are recovering, authorities said Saturday.The wounded officers' names have not been released.
The shooting broke out Friday night at the Pacific Beach Cities Stadium 16. Officers had gone in to escort a young man out and he opened fire. Police shot and killed the gunman outside the theaters.Officers searched in and around the theater for companions of the gunman and took two men into custody at a nearby parking structure.
At first, police said the pair were being considered "persons of interest" in the case. But authorities later said the pair are not believed to have been involved in the shooting.It wasn't immediately clear what triggered the shootout, which a witness told KNX radio started inside one of the theaters and continued outside.
Video taken from a news helicopter shows a man being wheeled out of the theater complex on a gurney.

David Welker is accused of raping a woman in broad daylight at a Wal-Mart parking lot located on John Young Parkway after forcing her into her car

A 24-year-old man held a gun to the head of a 15-month-old girl while he raped her mother for 25 minutes in a Wal-Mart parking lot, according to an arrest report.
David Welker is accused of raping a woman in broad daylight at a Wal-Mart parking lot located on John Young Parkway after forcing her into her car at gunpoint.
The gun was placed against the child as Welker raped the woman twice, Thursday's arrest report said.The document also said "he ordered her to dump out her purse. He then took her cellular phone, her debit card" and $70 in cash.Crimeline tips led detectives to Welker after photos apparently showing him at an ATM were released to the public earlier in the week."This is huge," Orange County sheriff's Sgt. Rich Mankewich said. "Obviously, he caused fear in a lot of people over the last day and a half. We needed him off the streets."....Deputies said Welker was sitting around the Wal-Mart looking for a target before the attack."We have him on video up to a half-hour before this crime occurred just sitting in front of the store looking around, checking out his surroundings, then he chose his victim that he wanted," Mankewich said.Welker robbed the woman, locked her in the trunk of her vehicle and drove off in a sport utility vehicle, deputies said. The woman escaped from the trunk, drove home and called 911, deputies said.....Meanwhile, Local 6 has learned that Welker has been arrested 27 times before being taken into custody in connection with the Wal-Mart attack.When he was 18-years-old, he was arrested twice on theft charges.Other charges include battery on an elderly or disabled person and grand theft auto. But this is Welker's first sex crime arrest.

Violence Suppression Team was formed by municipal police forces and the RCMP after the unprecedented gangland slaughter of six people

Violence Suppression Team was formed by municipal police forces and the RCMP after the unprecedented gangland slaughter of six people in a Surrey highrise last fall.
Since then, the team has pulled over gangsters in 2,334 cars, some multiple times, and seized 20 guns, Robinson told reporters on the last day of the Western Canada Gang Conference.The street-level uniformed team has also made 34 arrests, laid 52 charges and seized five sets of body armour since its formation Nov. 14.But more important, Robinson said, are the 1,234 "high-value intelligence reports" the team has developed. These aid beat cops in the areas where gangsters party."It is highly successful," said Robinson, who heads the team. "The highest priority we have as a police community in Canada right now is the gang problem."Metro Vancouver has been plagued by gangland slayings in recent months, many of them unsolved. Brazen shootings have taken place in restaurants, outside nightclubs and on busy streets.Robinson said the benefit of the conference, which brought together 560 investigators from across Canada, was the sharing of intelligence and policing strategies, particularly because of the fluidity of gangs.Supt. John Robin, head of the B.C. Integrated Gang Task Force, said most of the 129 gangs operating in the province have shifted demographically. They have become multi-ethnic.




Robin confirmed that police here have seen several cases in which members of violent Central American gangs, like the Mara Salvatrucha 13, have settled in B.C. and become involved in criminal activity.The Vancouver Sun revealed this week that a refugee claimant living in Surrey, Jose Francisco Cardoza Quinteros, admitted to the Canada Border Service Agency after arriving last September that he had been a member of MS-13, killed at least four people and was present for the beheading of a woman by a member of his gang.Robin said police were aware of Quinteros' presence in the community.He said most of the MS-13 members who have shown up in B.C. are not working together as a group here."What we are seeing is individual gang members that are tied back and have ties back to gangs in the United States, gangs in Central America that are involved in criminal activity in Canada," Robin said.
Robin said investigators work closely with the CBSA to share intelligence about the cross-border movements of suspected gangsters and criminals like those in the Mara Salvatrucha.He said he was pleased gang specialists from Honduras and Guatemala attended this week's conference and shared their strategies with police here, as well as intelligence about gang members, who number more than 150,000 in that region and are trickling into Canada."It has been a growing trend over the last number of years," Robin said of the notorious gangsters showing up in B.C.
"We want to make sure that it doesn't develop into a huge significant problem here in Canada. We have enough problems with gang violence as it is."

Christopher Stella raised his off-duty Glock 9 mm pistol to his head and shot himself, according to law-enforcement sources.

It was unclear why Christopher Stella, of Great Kills, took his own life, and law-enforcement sources said it appeared he left no note.
Stella first smashed his own car into two parked vehicles at the King Kullen supermarket in Greenridge Plaza at about 3:30 a.m., cops said.
He then raised his off-duty Glock 9 mm pistol to his head and shot himself, according to law-enforcement sources. "He was a good kid, quiet kid, no problems," said one colleague in the 72nd Precinct in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Officials also noted that Stella was not under departmental investigation.

investigation into the conduct of a Thai policeman who shot dead Leo Del Pinto

Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej today (Thursday) formally ordered an investigation into the conduct of a Thai policeman who shot dead a Canadian tourist and injured a second.The Thai Premier, in his role as the Chairman of the Department of Special Investigations, ordered the DSI to formally investigate charges of murder and attempted murder.The move comes in the midst of allegations that police in Pai, a picturesque tourist village in northern Thailand, deliberately attempted to cover up the actions of one of their own officers, whom they had to investigate.
The case was taken up by the Thai Human Rights Commission. Commissioner Saisuree Kosolnavin and a team found evidence that completely contradicted the investigation conducted by Police Colonel Sombat Panya of the local Pai police.Colonel Panya claimed that Canadian Leo Del Pinto, 24, from Calgary and Carly Reisig, 24, from Chilliwack, B.C. had made an unprovoked attack on Police Sergeant Uthai Dechawiwat after he broke up a fight between them in January this year.
Uthai, he claimed, shot in self defence as he fell to the ground. His automatic hada hair trigger.The police story was subsequently published in the local press and the wire stories and transmitted worldwide.Police further said that nevertheless Sgt Uthai had been charged with murder and attempted murder but on investigation there was no court record of such charges.Witnesses and forensic evidence examined by Thailand’s leading pathologist Dr. Pornthip Rojanasund however totally contradicted the police story. Forensic evidence showed that the policeman shot down into Del Pinto’s head. Witnesses said that Sergeant Uthai pistol whipped Ms Reisig before shooting her under her left breast.The conduct of the police had earlier been referred by the TNHRC to the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission.
Dr. Saisuree said: “This development is very encouraging. The process has already started as Ms. Reisig and another witness have been allowed to give evidence in court.”

We had heard he had multiple weapons in the residence, including a high-powered rifle and sawed-off shotgun," Commander Lt. Dino Sgambellone s

Jesse Bishop, 22, of 3224 Park Avenue West, was arrested late Wednesday night after the METRICH Enforcement Unit raided his house. He was charged with felony possession of drugs.METRICH planned to raid Bishop's residence Tuesday night, but he wasn't home. Ontario police had contacted the regional drug task force after getting reports of drug trafficking and weapons at Bishop's residence.
"I don't want people to think it's a safe haven," Ontario police Chief Rodney Smith said. "We're going to continue to hunt where these places are at and try to take them down."
Bishop's case presented a challenge for local authorities."We had heard he had multiple weapons in the residence, including a high-powered rifle and sawed-off shotgun," METRICH Commander Lt. Dino Sgambellone said.
METRICH detectives, Ontario police and the Allied Special Operations Response Team convened Wednesday at WMFD-TV's parking lot on Park Avenue West, just east of Bishop's home, while awaiting word on Bishop's movements. The suspect was in Mansfield. METRICH detectives Perry Wheeler and Dawn Brown called Sgambellone on his BlackBerry with an update."At least we know where he's at," Sgambellone said. "Keep me posted."A couple of Ontario police officers got out of their vehicles and talked while things were in a holding pattern. Soft rock from WVNO played on the outside speakers.The ASORT members opened the back of their van, battering rams in hand. They later got out to stretch their legs. Gary Foster prepared for the possibility they might not be needed."It's kind of disappointing," he said. "Oh, well. You don't always get to play."Just before 11, Mansfield police officers pulled Bishop over on U.S. 30 for a traffic violation."He had some weed (marijuana) and a bunch of money on him," Sgambellone said. "We're going to bring him back here and talk to him and then determine if we need (ASORT)."
Police recovered a bag of marijuana and $1,826 from Bishop's pocket, as well as 369 grams of marijuana in the trunk of his 1998 Cadillac. Bishop's explanation?
"You got me," he said.
Authorities determined they would take Bishop back to the house before entering. They had heard someone was in the residence, along with a dog.
"Given the circumstances, it was a safer play," Sgambellone said. "He's saying nobody's in there, and the dog is in a cage.
"We're not just going to lolligag up to the residence, but the threat level is not as high as we initially anticipated."
Sgambellone, looking like a baseball umpire making a home run call, waived his right index finger in the air to signal it was time to move.
As ASORT gained entry, little traffic went past on the starlit night, highlighted by a crescent moon. A sign at neighboring Faith Baptist Church read, "Everybody is somebody that Jesus died for."
An outside dog barked at police, while a dog chained on a side porch didn't appear aggressive. Wheeler greeted the dog as he walked out back.