Ever wonder what hundreds of thousands of dollars looks like? These 41 Division officers pose with almost $400,000 in cash recovered during the execution of a search warrant in the Danforth and Birchmount area on Wednesday. A 62-year-old man was arrested and charged with trafficking cocaine, and these guys (photographed with their battering ram) got a rare opportunity to see what most of us only dream of when buying a lottery ticket or playing......

With parking at a premium this holiday season, shopping malls see an increase in lazy, self-important jackasses who park in Accessible Parking spaces and abuse legitimate disability permits. The mind boggles at the selfish sense of entitlement this takes, and the Toronto Police Service won't care that you "just had to return a video." The Parking Enforcement Disabled Liason Unit have just entered a month-long enforcement blitz, focusing on those who park illegally in......

Poor OCAP. They can't even complain about the police watching them without the police watching them. At noon on Wednesday, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty held a press conference (not a rally or an action or a march but a press conference) at the northeast corner of Dundas and Sherbourne, and there was about one police officer for each person in attendance (around twenty). As eight or so cops casually observed the conference from......

Sam Sniderman (aka. The Record Man) wants the Sam's building to be sold to Ryerson University. Unfortunately, this does not comply with the conspiracy to turn every store on Yonge Street into a discount shoe outlet or nail salon. Sorry. Toronto couldn't handle a dirty bomb. According to a federal study, "the explosion of a small dirty bomb near the CN Tower would spew radioactivity over four square kilometres, resulting in mass anxiety, a......

Each week, Torontoist chooses the most interesting cases from the Toronto Police Service crime blotter. All charges are alleged until proven under law. • The big story this week was the arrest of six kids for the murder of a 17-year-old boy in the Flemingdon Park area. On July 15, 2006, the victim was stripped and assaulted over several hours by a group of people outside a housing complex on Grenoble Drive, finally succumbing to......

Each week, Torontoist chooses the most interesting cases from the Toronto Police Service crime blotter. All charges are alleged until proven under law. • Shortly after midnight on Sunday, a patron of Flirt Lounge on Adelaide West assaulted another patron, biting the victim's ear and separating a chunk of cartilage. A cell phone camera snapped an obscured image of the suspect during the altercation (pictured at right) and police say that most people in the......

Each week, Torontoist chooses the most interesting cases from the Toronto Police Service crime blotter. All charges are alleged until proven under law. • An investigation is underway about a man posing as a police officer who is allegedly stealing personal belongings in the Entertainment District. The guy apparently uses imitation police equipment to gain entry into clubs, then steals unattended purses and mobile phones. Real cops are mandated to carry specific identification, which they......

Each week, Torontoist chooses the most interesting cases from the Toronto Police Service crime blotter. All charges are alleged until proven under law. When the police weren't busy trying to manage opening and closing the Gardiner a bunch of times after the Great CN Tower Ice Incident of 2007, they had their hands full with some skeezy characters this week. • The Fraud Squad is in full-effect these days with yet another charity fraud arrest.......

If you're in the market for an inexpensive plastic Olsonite toilet seat in "Willow Mist," look no further than the Toronto Police Service. Every day, the Toronto Police seize stolen property or get random items turned-in by the public, all of which used to be sold-off at an annual auction. The TTC also sold-off unclaimed property every May and November, which netted bargain hunters steep discounts on things like iPods, digital cameras, jewelry—and especially......

Each week, Torontoist chooses the most interesting cases from the Toronto Police Service crime blotter. All charges are alleged until proven under law. The strangest thing that police have been dealing with this week was ice falling off buildings, notably the CN Tower. In other news, however: don't check your coat with a gun in the pocket; another day care centre is defrauded; someone sets fire to a Toronto Community Housing facility; Fester meets......

If were anywhere near Jarvis and Dundas today, you were probably wondering if you've ever smelled anything so horrible, but one thing was certain: it was the smell of death. Late this morning, the Toronto Police Service were summoned to 276 George Street, just east of Jarvis, to investigate an intense smell of rot coming from an abandoned rooming house. What they discovered were more than a hundred dead sheep. Trying to make sense......

Each week, Torontoist chooses the most interesting cases from the Toronto Police Service crime blotter. All charges are alleged until proven under law. The incidence of crime, like in election voting and retail sales, falls during periods of cruddy weather. This was a pretty uninteresting week for the criminal element in Hogtown, underscoring our reputation as one of the safest big cities in the world. Still, we had some armoured truck action, a Viagra......

Each week, Torontoist chooses the most interesting cases from the Toronto Police Service crime blotter. All charges are alleged until proven under law. A man takes-out anger management issues on a TTC driver; newcomers to Canada are targets of a mail scam; officers wake-up a sleeping man and all hell breaks loose; and who's setting little fires around a downtown apartment building?......

Each week, Torontoist chooses the most interesting cases from the Toronto Police Service crime blotter. All charges are alleged until proven under law. A bunch of Young Offenders aren't up to any good; a driver flees the scene of an accident that kills another; how $5 million in diamonds were stolen; a scumbag defrauds day care centres; and have you even heard of Safer Internet Day?......

Each week, Torontoist chooses the most interesting cases from the Toronto Police Service crime blotter. All charges are alleged until proven under law. Some men of God haven't been acting very holy; 42 ain't no joy Division for a flasher; if you think that's apple juice, urine for a surprise; and don't go near your car if you get your drink-on this Sunday.......

Each week, Torontoist chooses the most interesting cases from the Toronto Police Service crime blotter. All charges are alleged until proven under law. Did a bouncer at a downown club rough-up a customer and leave him bleeding in an alley? How did a bus driver decide to play hookey instead of just calling-in sick? And what do you need lots of electricity and 24,776 of to make $25 million?......

Each week, Torontoist chooses the most interesting cases from the Toronto Police Service crime blotter. All charges are alleged until proven under law. Major reports this week: Two homicides, five purse snatchings, eighteen swarming robberies, twenty three muggings, twelve business robberies, four home invasions, two vehicle jackings, nine break-and-enters, an aggravated assault, and a sexual assault. Read on for some detailed reports.......

The Toronto District School Board is holding three public consultation nights to ask parents how they should handle the $84.5 million deficit. Jane Pitfield releases her financial platform and we don't spot many surprises: cutting business taxes, a hiring freeze at City Hall, a rollback of the pay raise to councillors. Former city councillor John Adams is joining John Sewell in a bid to unseat Joe Mihevc in Ward 21 (St. Paul's). Through a election......

Free food, Prizes PEACE PROJECT SHOWCASE Date: August 18, 2006 Time: 4pm - 8pm Where: Eastview Community Centre KEEP THE PEACE NOT THE HEAT For more information call The Students Commission at 416.597.8297 PEACE Public Education And Crime Eradication Free food, Prizes This is layered. The P.E.A.C.E. Project is an initiative of the Toronto Police Service and is supported by funding from the provincial government. From the Peace Project website: This comprehensive initiative targets gun......

The Sun nips the Fantino running for mayor rumour in the bud. It seems that former chief is happy in his well paying provincial job (he makes 220k a year!) and won't be challenging mayor Miller in November's municipal election. We're glad that Fantino is happy and even 'gladder' that Julian won't be trying to take over the big chair at City Hall. For one thing, we kinda think that mayoral candidates should actually......

There's an old adage in journalism that "dog bites man" isn't newsworthy but "man bites dog" is front-page gold. In a twist, a couple of dogs attacked a Toronto Police Service horse this morning. The story is here in the Sun. The horse, named Trooper, suffered minor injuries and is expected to make a full recovery. The owner of the dogs is also facing charges.......

This time it wasn't evil Ottawa bureaucrats trying to build bridges or rapacious Premiers trying to download more social programs onto the backs of a beleagured metropolis. MDM calmed down a knife-wielding man who had snuck through the not-so-tight security at City Hall. According to the Globe, the man was in clear mental distress. At one point he was holding the knife to his own throat and straddling the second floor rotunda, until Mayor Miller......