who in Canada know dis yah gossip???????

[evanovitch]

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Talk about out of left field! Who would have thought that a certain crew had so infiltrated the land of the maple leaf. Hats off to the troops, all 1,000 of them, for what's now being called the &quot;clean sweep&quot;. Word is that some who've been caught may choose to talk.
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[diabolical_Tanya]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> 1/1


Talk about out of left field! Who would have thought that a certain crew had so infiltrated the land of the maple leaf. Hats off to the troops, all 1,000 of them, for what's now being called the &quot;clean sweep&quot;. Word is that some who've been caught may choose to talk.
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Dem a try claim seh shower posse infiltrate the gangs in the greater TO area, an dem mussie arrest a bunch of them in operation corral let me find the article

[diabolical_Tanya]

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http://www.globaltoronto.com/story.html?id=2989492

A ruthless Jamaican criminal organization with links to the country’s ruling political party is the same group Toronto police allege supplies weapons to and controls the street gangs targeted in Tuesday’s province-wide, early-morning raids.

The Shower Posse, which the U.S. government says holds influence with Jamaica’s governing Labour Party and is responsible for more than 1,400 drug-related killings, is an international organized crime syndicate that police say funnelled drugs through the Caribbean to GTA street-level gangs such as the Falstaff Crips and the Five Point Generals.

On Tuesday morning, more than 1,000 police officers from forces across Ontario executed 105 search warrants in the GTA and Ottawa, resulting in 79 arrests and the seizure of $30,000 in cash, $10,500 in casino cheques, 19 firearms, diamonds, cocaine, body armour, vehicles and more than 10,000 ecstasy pills.

The arrests signal the first time police have been able to establish a link to the infamously violent Jamaican drug cartel, which one expert says has been operating in the GTA for decades, reaping profits in the shadows while fuelling gang warfare and terrorizing residents.

“You’re not gonna notice them. You’re not gonna see them,” said Staff Inspector Mike Earl, noting members of the Shower Posse are typically in their 30s or 40s. “They’re smart, they’re organized and they’ve been around a long time.”

Dubbed Project Corral, the investigation began in August 2009 focusing on several shootings and other violent crimes in northwest Toronto that police believed to be a result of fighting between the area’s competing criminal organizations.

While investigators initially targetted members of the Falstaff Crips and Five Point Generals — street-level gangs allegedly selling illicit drugs and trafficking in firearms — police now allege that these gangs were being controlled by the Shower Posse.

“Over the course of this investigation, a more significant organized crime involvement has been identified,” Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair told reporters at a media conference on Tuesday. “We’re very hopeful that by incapacitating these organizations … we can make our communities safer.”

Police say their investigation revealed that the Jamaican gang is allegedly responsible for a “significant part” of the city’s drug trade, and that its influence stretches as far north as Sault Ste. Marie, sweeping from Windsor in the west to Ottawa in the east. Earlier this year, Project Corral investigators in the Dominican Republic intercepted more than 70 kilograms of cocaine and a load of firearms destined for Toronto, police say.

Two unsolved homicides, one on Dec. 3, 2009, and the other on Feb. 8, 2010, both of which occurred on Falstaff Ave., are also part of the investigation.

The Shower Posse takes its name from its modus operandi — showering communities with bullets to enforce their dominance, said Michael C. Chettleburgh, author of Young Thugs: Inside the Dangerous World of Canadian Street Gangs.

The Posse has a strong presence in northwest Toronto because members fled to Canada when Michael Manley’s government took power in Jamaica in the 1970s.

“They came with a lot of violence in their system, essentially, in that they were brought up in the ways of badness by government officials,” said Chettleburgh, the founder of Astwood Strategy Corp., a crime and social justice consultancy group. “They came with access to the drug trade, and they arrived in Canada … and basically set up shop.”

The gang’s lineage has been passed on to a new generation of Canadians, he said.

“In terms of the street level, they still have a presence, they’re still a powerful entity in terms of supplying the market with the tools of the street gangsters, which is dope — drugs of all kinds,” he said. “They are a force to be reckoned with, as are traditional organized crime entities.”

The Shower Posse, said to operate drug bases in more than 20 U.S. cities, has its roots in Brooklyn, N.Y., where Vivian Blake founded the gang in the 1970s. Before his incarceration in a U.S. prison in 2000 for racketeering and cocaine possession, the native Jamaican was allegedly responsible for importing thousands of tons of drugs into the United States. He served eight years of his 28-year sentence and returned to Jamaica in January 2009. He died on March 25 in Kingston at the age of 54.

The gang’s alleged current leader, 41-year-old Christopher Coke, is a powerful player in Jamaican politics, so much so that the U.S. State Department’s attempt to extradite him has rattled relations between the two countries.

Coke is facing charges in the United States of firearms trafficking and conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana.

He is so influential that intermediaries managed to seek a resolution of his legal predicament directly with top aides to President Obama.

The State Department has suggested that it is Coke’s influence with top ruling party politicians that is impeding his extradition. The Jamaican government continues to resist Coke’s extradition, claiming insufficient evidence

[diabolical_Tanya]

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TORONTO - Under the watchful eye of a police helicopter hovering overhead, heavily armed tactical officers led the charge early Tuesday against members and associates of three crime gangs supplying Toronto's voracious firearm and drug markets.

In precision raids at 5 a.m., police sliced into the &quot;cancer&quot; they say has been plaguing communities.

And on Wednesday, police are moving into the void in hopes of returning communities to their residents.

Project Corral, launched last August, nabbed 78 people, including four in Ottawa, 73 kilos of cocaine, diamonds, thousands of Ecstasy pills and firearms.

About 1,000 officers -- including 340 tactical officers -- from 19 police services raided addresses across the city. Homes in Brampton and Durham also were raided.

A total of 105 warrants were executed. Police seized 19 guns, about $30,000 cash, body armour and vehicles.


Two of the gangs, the South Side Falstaff Crips and the 5 Point Generalz, allegedly trafficked drugs and weapons on the streets.

But the success of the project was that police were able to work their way into the Shower Posse, a Jamaican-based crime group that is the alleged exporter and wholesaler of drugs and guns, and supplied the Crips and 5PGz.

&quot;We tapped into them quite well during this investigation,&quot; Toronto Gun and Gang Staff-Insp. Mike Earl said.

By finding links between the street gangs and the posse, police say they found cocaine trails into Canada from the U.S., the Dominican Republic and Panama. Earl said police seized 72 kilos destined for Canada in the Dominican Republic and three posse members were arrested there.

He said the street gang members deal the drugs, while posse members &quot;are above that. You're not going to notice them, you're not going to see them. They supply the drugs, weapons, etc., to these people.&quot;

The Shower Posse has its roots in Jamaica. During the 1980s, U.S. authorities found evidence that posses moved into the U.S. and Canada, specializing in gun running.

They made their violent mark in Toronto during the 1990s but then abruptly changed styles, rarely causing a stir until this project.

Earl refused to comment about the existence of other posses in Toronto.

&quot;They're not street-level people,&quot; Earl said. &quot;These are the older people ... these are going to more sophisticated, more organized individuals and they're harder to tap into.

&quot;They're smart. I think it's very significant because I don't think they've been touched. I think they themselves believe they're untouchable and we finally made a step in the right direction attacking the hierarchy supplying the street gangs.&quot;

Earl estimated about a dozen of the suspects arrested were tied to the Shower Posse.

Earl said Corral was launched because of the spike of violence in the west and northwest areas of Toronto. In early 2009, eight people were gunned down in 12 Division, but two other homicides are of particular interest to police: The Dec. 3 slaying of Aeron Grant, 19, and the Feb. 8 shooting murder of Tyrell Dufus, 22, both of Falstaff Ave.

The two victims were associated with the Falstaff Crips, police said.

Toronto Chief Bill Blair said the murders were related to the activities of the gangs but refused to elaborate.

&quot;There are other violent acts and other murders which we also believe ... may be tied to the activities of members of these street gangs that have been apprehended, but these two members in particular have been the focus of Project Corral,&quot; Blair said.

The 5PGz developed a notoriety in recent years, including the alleged involvement of a gang member in the July 2007 slaying of 11-year-old Ephraim Brown at a Sheppard Ave. W. housing complex.

In one raid Tuesday on John St. in Weston, two men and a woman became upset when told their apartment was raided as part of an anti-gang drive.

The three were handcuffed and held in police cars for about two hours while officers executed a warrant.

They were later released without charges. Police gave them a copy of the warrant and thanked them for their co-operation.

&quot;They came into our apartment, raided it,&quot; said one man who didn't reveal his name.

&quot;They put guns in our faces and they found nothing. We've been sitting here ... locked up in handcuffs.&quot;

Earl was confronted about another incident of police raiding the wrong home. He said their targets are often drifters, or use homes to stash contraband.

Blair said the raids will reduce violence.

But police will also &quot;go into the neighbourhoods where those people have been operating, to go into those places where people have been victimized,&quot; he said.

&quot;We had gone in to take out the worst of the offenders, but we'll also be in those communities to work with those people to help them recover from this to ensure that other gangs don't go into that void,&quot; Blair said.

Supt. Greg Getty said the aim of the raids was to cut out the gang and then give back the communities to residents.

&quot;We don't wait 24, 48 hours,&quot; Getty said, because if there's a void, another group will move in. &quot;It's our responsibility not only to remove the cancer within that community but also to assist in the rebuilding of those communities.&quot;

PROJECT CORRAL

* 105 warrants executed early Tuesday.

* To date, a total of 78 people arrested.

* Police seized 19 firearms.

* Police seized 73 kilos of cocaine, 72 of which was seized in the Dominican Republic.

* 1.5 kilos of marijuana seized.

* Charges faced by the suspects include:

* Instructing commission of an offence for criminal organization.

* Commit criminal offence in association with a criminal organization.

* Participate in activities of criminal organization.

* Trafficking firearms.

* Trafficking drugs.

* Living off the avails of prostitution.

* Possession of proceeds of crime

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http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2010/05/04/13825716-qmi.html

[Emperah]

Re: who in Canada know dis yah gossip???????

a big news, couple eedyat a wukk ahx if mi si di news in de paypah.
Like seh mi would be an authority pan dat story. When mi seh hasn't everyone him come wid &quot;ur not one of those posse are you&quot;
mi seh &quot;yeh I'm the ring leader so watch ur step&quot;

half greek nuh kno seh feem country a bun dung an feem g parents haffee guh find wukk again

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: who in Canada know dis yah gossip???????

And the screw turns.....
The US will stop at nothing to achieve their objective.

This us all about DUDUS.

Nothing more nothing less.

[Emperah]

Re: who in Canada know dis yah gossip???????

mi gree wid yuh pan dat.

[evanovitch]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dahJahPawtTwo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">a big news, couple eedyat a wukk ahx if mi si di news in de paypah.
Like seh mi would be an authority pan dat story. When mi seh hasn't everyone him come wid &quot;ur not one of those posse are you&quot;
mi seh &quot;yeh I'm the ring leader so watch ur step&quot;

<span style="font-weight: bold">half greek nuh kno seh feem country a bun dung an feem g parents haffee guh find wukk again </div></div></span>

next time tell him seh fi him country a use fi wi model fi curb dem financial crisis..wat a ting eeh?

[Emperah]

Re: who in Canada know dis yah gossip???????

yuh seet!