Congratulations to Cornwall Police Service for their part in shutting down a sophisticated smuggling operation that used Akwesasne territory on Cornwall Island to smuggle drugs south and illegal guns north. Thanks to Cornwall Police Services' excellent work, 35-year-old Mark Rudolph of Cornwall, ON, now faces charges for Importing and exporting cannabis … [Read more...]
David Lametti Drops Mandatory Minimums for Serious Firearm Offences
Justice Minister David Lametti's performance during last Thursday's press conference for Bill C-22 rivalled Justin Trudeau's or even William Shatner's for overacting. "We're turning the page on a FAILED [overemphasised for dramatic effect] Conservative criminal justice policy." "It was an approach that did NOT [overemphasised for dramatic effect] make our communities … [Read more...]
US Lawyer Charged with Gun Smuggling Postpones Trial Again
On October 25, 2019, Washington State lawyer Shawn Bertram Jensen crossed the border into Canada at Osoyoos, B.C. with a loaded Ruger .22 handgun and an unloaded Colt AR-15 semi-automatic rifle with U.S. standard capacity magazines and ammunition in his vehicle. He was arrested and now faces eight criminal charges, including gun smuggling. Jensen first sought to delay his … [Read more...]
Two Canadian Would-Be Gun Smugglers Busted in Minnesota
Two Canadians who illegally possessed 67 firearms were arrested by Minnesota State Patrol on January 10, 2021, after being pulled over for speeding. Dayne Adrian Sitladeen, 29, and Muzamil Aden Addow, 29, now face charges of being an unlawful alien in possession of firearms and will likely face a host of additional charges. According to State Police, the Chevrolet … [Read more...]
Toronto Gun Smuggler Ayub Y. Guled Nabbed in New York
I heartily congratulate the New York State Police for doing what Public Safety Minister Bill Blair refuses to do - arrest gun smugglers and put them in prison. On October 17, 2020, New York State Police pulled over a vehicle for a routine traffic stop on Route 37 in Oswegatchie, NY. Ayub Y. Guled, a Canadian from Toronto, was arrested for illegal possession of firearms … [Read more...]
Gun Smuggler Pleads Guilty, Walks Out of Court a Free Man
In March 2016, the Windsor Police Service arrested Curtis Elliott and nine other people for smuggling illegal guns into Canada. This was the end of a year-long investigation in which police charged ten people with 111 criminal offences. Curtis Elliott faced 33 of those charges. On October 16, 2020, news broke that Elliott pleaded guilty and, as a result of the Crown’s … [Read more...]
Violent N.B. Drug Dealer Nicholas Bain Finally Arrested
It took them three months, but New Brunswick RCMP finally got their man. On August 11, 2020, a search warrant was executed at a home on Main Street in Sackville as part of the investigation. Nicholas Bain was located and arrested without incident. Bain was finally arrested after evading the RCMP for 84 days. The arrest warrant for Nick Bain, a violent career criminal with … [Read more...]
Marquis Watkins: Gun Smuggler Nets 3 Years in Prison
On October 16, 2018, Marquis Watkins, a “former football phenom”, attempted to smuggle 20 handguns into Canada via the beautiful Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls, Ontario. Watkins told border agents he was coming to Canada to take his girlfriend out for dinner. For reasons we’ll probably never know, the fine folks at the Canadian Border Services Agency didn’t buy it. Even … [Read more...]