Juno News - Alleged killer STRIKES while on probation + Family hit by TWO home invasions in ONE month

00:00:00.000 Welcome to The Crime Report. My name is Ron Chinzer and I'll be hosting this every Friday

00:00:09.500 as a new segment on Juneau News where we talk about crime from the west coast of Canada all

00:00:14.700 the way to the east coast from the south border connecting to the U.S. all the way up north,

00:00:19.080 the icy north, where we just talk about all of the things happening in Canada that are causing

00:00:24.040 all of you at home and all of us wherever we are to be worried about our next steps and what's

00:00:29.160 going to happen in our homes, our communities and our streets and a lot of these things are stuff

00:00:33.660 where we all look at it and we say how is this happening? Knowing the history, the background

00:00:37.780 and the facts in all these situations, normal Canadians are now stepping up and putting this

00:00:42.900 as a top priority in the country. Now my background is 20 years in law enforcement. I've worked as a

00:00:48.480 civilian working in intelligence with the Peel Regional Police Service listening to major wiretaps

00:00:53.460 on international investigations, joint force operations with United States law enforcement

00:00:58.000 agencies, and then I was a police officer in the Toronto Police Service where I started off

00:01:02.020 working in some of the hardest hit communities focused on at-risk youth programs, transitioning

00:01:06.720 to headquarters to work on administrative programs throughout the city to really help our communities

00:01:11.320 get better, and then transitioning to the hard stuff because the world began to change as soon

00:01:16.420 as the laws changed and the government changed in 2015. I transitioned into deep investigative work

00:01:21.960 with the Organized Crime Enforcement Unit in the Toronto Police Service where I worked in

00:01:26.000 the Integrated Gun and Gang Task Force and founded and headed up the Gang Prevention Task Force, and

00:01:32.720 now I get to be able to provide all of you all of that information condensed in something normal,

00:01:37.680 something easy to digest, but also something where you as the listener is going to watch this

00:01:42.160 and say, what do we need to do to change this? And the whole point of this is not to just get

00:01:46.560 people riled up is not to make you feel afraid, but so that you can stay educated to how did we get

00:01:52.080 this bad? And most importantly, how do we fix it? So thank you for tuning in and don't forget every

00:01:58.160 Fridays on Juneau News. The city of Toronto is the largest city in Canada. It's an economic hub

00:02:04.880 and it has everybody from all over the world. You know, when I tell people, if you want to see the world,

00:02:09.440 come visit Toronto, I mean it. Food, culture, religious-based institutions, you want to feel

00:02:15.280 the world you come to Toronto. And Toronto's been rattled and shaken because of the random acts of

00:02:19.680 violence. Now, Toronto was recently shaken up because on June 17th, there was a random innocent

00:02:25.760 person in his 30s walking in the city of Toronto, the downtown area, at 11 o'clock at night when he was

00:02:31.120 approached by a random stranger, by all accounts and all information that we know, and he was stabbed

00:02:36.000 after an altercation 20 times in his torso. Now, this poor victim was transported to a Toronto city

00:02:42.320 area trauma hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries and passed away. Now, what's most

00:02:46.960 important is this person who did this, this alleged first degree murderer, was arrested a short time

00:02:52.880 later. But it was the history of this person that really draw a lot of people, both in the law

00:02:57.920 enforcement community, the city of Toronto, and victims groups to say, what happened here? How did this

00:03:04.080 repeat violent offender be allowed out to commit another random act of violence and get charged

00:03:09.280 with first degree murder? So let's take this back. On December 21st in 2023, police officers in the

00:03:16.480 Durham region, it's a bigger metropolis just east of Toronto, responded to an aggravated assault where

00:03:22.160 witnesses saw this alleged person beating a 60-year-old man almost to death. Now, this 60-year-old man

00:03:30.960 was transported to hospital and almost succumbed to their injuries, but luckily they survived,

00:03:36.480 and the Durham Regional Police Service identified the suspect. Now, this suspect was identified as

00:03:41.360 22-year-old Anthony Oliveira, and police put out a bulletin and said, we're looking for Anthony

00:03:46.720 after this, what appeared to be, random act of violence on a 60-year-old that almost killed him.

00:03:51.600 Now, a short time later, Anthony Oliveira, who's 22 years old, turned himself into Durham Regional

00:03:56.960 Police Service. He was later charged and most importantly, convicted of aggravated assault.

00:04:02.880 Now, why does that conviction matter? It's because he goes from being an alleged person

00:04:07.520 to being somebody who was convicted in a court of law. And what is the end result? What was the

00:04:11.840 end result of beating a 60-year-old random person almost to death and being convicted? It looks to

00:04:18.160 be that he was released on probation, which just means that he's serving his sentence back out in the

00:04:23.840 community with a limited set of rules. So the conditions he'd have to abide by were probably

00:04:29.120 not to consume alcohol, not to have any weapons, but also keep the peace and be of good behavior,

00:04:34.400 which is a standard condition on a probation. And again, a probation isn't a bail. A probation is

00:04:39.280 you've been convicted of a crime in a court of law. Now you get to serve your sentence out in public

00:04:44.080 because the courts, for whatever reason, determine that, well, you know what? You're not a threat to

00:04:48.960 society. But this happens after he gets convicted of almost being a 60-year-old man to death.

00:04:53.360 So let's flash forward just a short time later. Now, in May of 2025, while it's not a violent

00:04:58.960 offense, he gets arrested for mischief. Now, mischief is a relatively minor offense. It could be

00:05:04.560 interfering with somebody's property. It could be damaging some property. But he gets arrested for

00:05:09.120 mischief. But keep in mind, at this time, he's already on probation for the aggravated assault.

00:05:12.960 So December, convicted of aggravated assault. May of 2025, he gets charged for a mischief.

00:05:19.040 And it looks like in between there, based on the information that, in both cases,

00:05:22.880 he gets convicted and he's on two probations. One for the aggravated assault. The second

00:05:27.280 probation for a minor mischief, which he most likely pled guilty to because it was going to

00:05:31.760 waste the court's time. And then we come to June. June 1st of 2025. He is in the Durham area and he

00:05:38.960 approaches a couple, a random couple, and he brandishes a knife and he attempts to stab one of the

00:05:44.720 people. Now, again, this couple at 10.30 p.m. at night looks to be just going for a walk when

00:05:49.840 they get approached by this guy again, Anthony Oliveira. Pulls out a knife, tries to stab one

00:05:54.960 of them. Luckily, nobody was injured and he manages to flee before the police arrive. Now,

00:05:59.520 the police ultimately get him. A short time later, he's now at this point really well known to Durham

00:06:04.480 Regional Police Service and they charge him with assault with a weapon, possession of a dangerous

00:06:08.880 weapon and two counts of breach of probation, likely being the probation from the aggravated

00:06:14.400 assault and the second probation from the mischief just a short time later. And then we get to last

00:06:19.200 week, June 17th in the city of Toronto. Now, Anthony Oliveira is allegedly no longer operating and doing

00:06:26.080 random acts of violence in Durham Region, but he transitions over to the city of Toronto into a really

00:06:31.040 populated area near Danforth and Coxwell Avenue. And while he's down there, he ends up, based on

00:06:37.040 witnesses, getting in a confrontation with a victim who's in their 30s. And during this interaction,

00:06:43.840 Anthony Oliveira allegedly pulls out a knife and stabs this innocent stranger victim to him

00:06:50.960 over 20 times in his torso. Now, witnesses see this happening and say it's a violent exchange

00:06:56.400 and say Anthony Oliveira flees. Now, they just say he's the suspect. They don't know him, but

00:07:00.160 turns out it's Anthony Oliveira, allegedly. And this victim gets transported to a Toronto City

00:07:06.480 hospital. And when he's in there, sadly, he succumbs to his injury and he becomes homicide

00:07:11.040 number 16 for Toronto. The Toronto police does a great job. Two days later, they publicly identify

00:07:16.880 Anthony Steven Oliveira, 24 of no fixed address as the prime suspect in this first degree murder. Now,

00:07:25.200 why is first degree such a big deal? Why are there degrees of murder? Well, first degree is the highest

00:07:30.720 degree of murder, and I'll tell you why. For first degree murder to be charged, two things need to be

00:07:36.400 proven, or there needs to be reasonable grounds that these two things exist. The first thing is

00:07:41.920 actus rea, and the second thing is called mens rea. Actus rea is the actual guilty act. That means that

00:07:48.880 Anthony Oliveira went out that day and he performed an act resulting in a murder. Now, the most important

00:07:54.720 part of first degree murder is the second part, the mens rea. The mens rea means Anthony went out that

00:08:00.240 day with the intent to murder somebody. This wasn't him defending himself. And then in the process of

00:08:05.760 defending himself, he stabbed the person 20 times and they died. That would be second degree murder.

00:08:10.480 In this case, it means that Anthony Oliveira allegedly stabbed this victim, unknown to him,

00:08:16.320 a complete stranger, likely, who was targeted for being alone in an alleyway in Toronto, 0.92

00:08:21.360 stabbed him 20 times with the intent and the mind that I wanted to kill this person.

00:08:27.600 Now, Anthony, again, has no fixed address and he was out on two probations. This becomes a question 0.97

00:08:32.640 that a normal Canadian would look at and say, hmm, you have somebody who's been convicted of an

00:08:37.920 aggravated assault where he almost killed a 60 year old. Then he got convicted again of likely a

00:08:42.880 mischief and he's on two probations. Then he goes out as a suspect, brandishes a knife on two random

00:08:48.560 people, tries to stab one, luckily doesn't, gets charged for that. And now he's out and about in

00:08:53.920 the community. And shortly after he does this, he goes out and he murders a innocent 30 year old

00:09:00.400 walking in the city of Toronto that had at this point, and to our knowledge, no connection to him.

00:09:05.600 And that's where people start to lose their mind and say, what was this person doing out in the first

00:09:09.760 place? Because all of us can recognize walking in our cities, our towns, in the city of Toronto or

00:09:15.200 any metropolis with our significant other or our kids or our brother or our parents, and just going

00:09:21.040 for a walk after a late dinner or after a coffee, just to get some fresh air. Now to think that in

00:09:26.240 Canada, now you're going to come across somebody who might have the mind of I'm going to go out today 0.98

00:09:30.160 and I'm going to murder a random stranger. That's no longer an unrealistic thought. Sadly, that's a

00:09:35.120 thought that we've seen replicated from the west coast to the east coast, all within this country.

00:09:39.760 And that's where you get people that stand up and say, what is happening here?

00:09:43.360 And they start to look to which direction. Well, who's responsible to fix this? Now,

00:09:47.680 the police, they do a great job. After two days, they identify Olivera.

00:09:51.840 They put out a bulletin and they said, look, he's wanted for first degree murder. Now I can tell you

00:09:56.000 as a former police officer, when we see those bulletins, when we come into work and it says,

00:09:59.840 Hey, we think this person who's wanted for first degree murder might be in our community.

00:10:03.840 It's on high alert for us because there's a lot of pride personally of being the person

00:10:08.320 who found this guy. So I could tell you it was on high alert for all officers to go and find this

00:10:11.920 person. And a couple of days later, he gets found. Now on June 22nd, 2025, five days after the homicide

00:10:19.680 happens, three days after he gets identified as the suspect police officers and the Niagara

00:10:24.480 regional police service end up finding Anthony Olivera of no fixed address in one of the busiest places

00:10:32.960 in the country in Clifton Hills in Niagara Falls. Now, keep in mind, Anthony has a history of

00:10:38.960 attacking random people. He's attacked a 60 year old, almost killed him, brandished a knife to a

00:10:44.400 couple. And then now he's a prime suspect in a homicide where he stabbed an innocent person over

00:10:48.800 20 times. And by the way, he's of no fixed address. Now, for some people are probably wondering,

00:10:52.640 you know, how do we release somebody out on bail? How does a country say it's okay if you have no home

00:10:57.120 to release you out on bail? Because one of the considerations is, well, how do we know if this person's ever going to

00:11:00.960 show up to court or how are they going to take off and flee? How are we going to find this person

00:11:04.160 if they don't show up? Well, the way the system is designed in Canada, that it is, it would be

00:11:08.960 discriminatory to say, based on somebody's residential status, if they could be released or not.

00:11:14.320 The idea behind that is, well, you know, homeless people don't choose to be homeless,

00:11:17.840 or at least that's the idea. So we can't punish them legally and inflict on their charter of

00:11:23.440 rights and freedoms for a fair, reasonable trial. So their status of living in a home or not

00:11:28.560 doesn't impact it. But it's a serious concern if you look at the reality of things. I mean,

00:11:32.240 how do we find these people? And Anthony Oliveira is clearly a transparent person that likes to go and

00:11:38.640 transport from one city to another, doing crimes in Durham, doing crimes in Toronto, and then getting

00:11:44.880 caught in Niagara Falls and Clifton Hills. And now when they find them, they arrest them and they bring

00:11:48.560 them back in. And then the police service, Toronto police service does a press release and says,

00:11:54.480 we have a clear sign and story and history of this person. And we need to look at our release systems

00:12:01.440 because in the police services mind without them saying it, but with them saying it is this could

00:12:06.720 have all been prevented. If we had a common sense legal system that took into account public safety,

00:12:12.560 first and foremost, I mean, any normal person, if I were to go and tell a 10 year old kid about this

00:12:18.000 story, I'm almost certain that at some point that kid would step into play and be like, well,

00:12:23.600 why was this person allowed out after the first time? Why was this person out after the second

00:12:27.040 time? And now one of the questions that comes to mind is after this first degree murder,

00:12:31.600 will he get bail again? And at this point we don't know, but I can tell you, everybody is innocent

00:12:37.440 until proven guilty. And while the evidence is overwhelming, we have seen this week in many

00:12:41.040 parts of the country through video evidence that we can see a criminal caught on video doing a crime,

00:12:46.080 but it's not enough for a judge to say that's a conviction. In fact, it needs to be a little bit

00:12:50.560 deeper than that. And that's where it becomes unreasonable. The burden of evidence required to

00:12:54.720 prove that somebody done something has gotten so wide and so long. And it's always prioritized now,

00:13:00.000 at least in the last 10 years, the violent offenders over the innocent victims in the

00:13:04.240 communities in which they terrorize and live in. And that's where people start to say,

00:13:08.320 what do we do about it?

00:13:09.200 One of the things about Olivera is over the last 18 months, he's had three violent incidents in

00:13:13.760 which he's been arrested and charged for, and in some of them convicted of and released back out

00:13:17.840 on probation into our communities. And it happens in one region, but he transitions over into two or

00:13:23.280 three other regions. And he's selecting allegedly his victims at random. Could be anybody, could be me,

00:13:28.800 it could be me. Now in one of those, one of the victims almost died. Luckily he survived.

00:13:32.960 And despite these multiple charges and breaches, Olivera still remained at large,

00:13:37.600 even after the first degree murder charge was pending up until June 22nd, just a few days ago,

00:13:43.840 in one of the busiest cities in the country being Niagara Falls. And sadly, what's forgotten about

00:13:48.800 is the in-betweens. It's the innocent victims caught up in the last 18 months that we publicly know about

00:13:54.560 that are often forgotten. It's not about the 60 year old man who almost dies. It's not about

00:13:59.600 the husband and wife who almost gets stabbed. And it's not about the victim, sadly, who was killed

00:14:05.280 just because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time by a person allegedly with the intent

00:14:09.840 to go out and murder somebody. And that's what sad and lost is. We will all look at Olivera and we

00:14:15.600 won't look at the victims, but those victims could be anybody. They could be me. They could be you.

00:14:19.040 And that's why it's important for us as Canadians to recognize there is no us and them. We are all 0.83

00:14:24.960 potentially on the lineup to be a victim. And that's why this has become a top priority for Canadians 0.98

00:14:30.160 all over the country. It doesn't matter your background. It doesn't matter your political interest.

00:14:33.520 Every Canadian now values safety as a priority because it's something we're quickly seeing lost

00:14:38.960 and you cannot go a single day, whether it's on social media, your news on the radio or CP24,

00:14:45.040 where you're not looking at something and seeing headers pop up all the time for violent crimes

00:14:50.000 repeated by violent offenders that are consistently out on releases and bails. And it's at the point now

00:14:56.480 where Canadians are saying, regardless of political stripe, this has to end. Now, sadly, as dangerous as

00:15:02.960 Olivera is, that's not the only thing that's coming into people's homes. We actually have

00:15:07.520 literal home invasions. I could tell you in my community in beautiful Oakville, it's one of the

00:15:12.320 best places in the country. I say that objectively and subjectively because I live here. Now Oakville is

00:15:17.840 highly sought after because of it's a great school system here, great community. It has affluent pockets

00:15:23.600 as well. But Oakville has become a prime example in this country where if you do well in life, if you

00:15:28.720 actually achieve a Canadian dream and you want to come to a community where you can raise your

00:15:33.280 kids, get involved in sports, have a great public education system. Well, sadly, you're now a targeted

00:15:39.440 person and a targeted community from not just auto thefts, not just drug traffickers, but one of the

00:15:45.360 rising concerns for Oakville Ontario has been violent home invasions repeatedly happening and zero recognition

00:15:53.520 from the federal government to recognize that this is a problem, not just happening in Oakville and not just

00:15:58.080 happening in the greater Toronto area, but all throughout the country. Now, recently there was

00:16:02.080 news of a victims of home invasion that actually fought back and were highly applauded because they

00:16:08.560 managed to capture one of the people who tried to home invade them. And in this particular case,

00:16:13.600 what struck me about this was a couple of things. It wasn't just that this family fought back and

00:16:17.760 actually found one of the perpetrators. It was that this family had gone through a home invasion

00:16:22.640 just three weeks earlier. So on May 27th was their first break. Now the intruders broke into this

00:16:28.640 family's home through a bedroom window and they were armed with hammers. Now think about that. You're

00:16:32.640 sleeping in your house, a bedroom window where your kids could potentially be sleeping. You could be

00:16:38.160 sleeping, gets broken by suspects with hammers. Now this family managed to fight back. And what did they

00:16:43.920 use? They used a coat rack at the time and they managed to get these intruders who broke in again

00:16:47.680 through a bedroom window with hammers coming into the home. They fled, but this family thought about

00:16:52.560 this and they said, look, we have to be prepared for the next time. So what did they do? They prepared

00:16:56.560 as a family, they stocked baseball bats and fire extinguishers in the house just in case, which is

00:17:02.960 a whole thing legally, but let's not talk about that. That's for another time. In this particular case,

00:17:07.200 what happens is this family gets victimized in probably one of the most invasive ways.

00:17:10.880 And they decide as a family that we are going to create a plan, which I highly recommend. Look,

00:17:15.760 there's something in policing that I think is very applicable to the normal world and to normal

00:17:20.240 people. It's called the ABCs. You want to plan ahead. You want to be prepared and you want to

00:17:24.560 create escapes. And the whole idea is when something really bad happens to you, you don't want to be

00:17:29.280 making your plan of action in that moment. You have to plan ahead and then you need to be prepared.

00:17:34.080 Well, in this particular case, this family said, well, we're going to put common sense into this

00:17:38.240 place and we are going to place items that might be weapons of opportunity to protect ourselves,

00:17:42.960 not to hurt anybody, but to protect ourselves. If this were to happen again, what might be somebody

00:17:48.080 coming into the window again, common sense, reasonable, totally rational to do. Well,

00:17:52.720 sadly, May 27th, this first break and enter and home invasion happens while they're at home sleeping.

00:17:57.680 It happens again on June 19th in 2025. But this time it was different. It was around four o'clock in the

00:18:03.280 morning when the family was awoken by loud bangs and shattering glass at the rear door of their house.

00:18:09.200 The family rushes out of the house with their baseball bats. Again, they planned ahead. They

00:18:15.040 were prepared and they created a plan. And when they rush out with baseball bats, they discover

00:18:20.560 four to five suspects dressed in all black causing havoc inside of the house. Now, during the struggle,

00:18:28.800 these guys don't have a hammer with them anymore. They have a firearm during the struggle. A shot goes

00:18:36.000 off into their home by one of the suspects. So I want you to imagine for yourself, you're this family

00:18:41.200 just a couple of weeks ago, bad guys break into your house through the bedroom window with a hammer.

00:18:45.920 And then three weeks later, what happens? You hear your back door smash, you go downstairs and there's

00:18:51.360 a person with a gun ransacking your house as you're sleeping at four o'clock in the morning. Oh, and by the

00:18:56.400 way, your neighbors, east, west, north of you have all gone through this over the last couple months,

00:19:01.440 if not years in the same area. And we've had multiple community meetings to say,

00:19:05.760 what are we doing about this? I mean, we've spoken to every level of government. And the reality here

00:19:10.320 is the government that's most responsible for the most impactful change is probably the federal

00:19:15.440 government. And why do I say that? It's because these are repeat violent offenders that are continually

00:19:19.760 let out on bail. And while we don't know the history of all of these suspects, what we do know

00:19:24.000 is if I were to historically look back to all of the charges for people that were on home invasions,

00:19:28.880 a lot of them, an abnormal majority of them are already out on a bail or on a probation.

00:19:34.400 And here's something interesting about home invasions. There is no criminal code charge

00:19:38.800 of home invasion. It doesn't exist. It gets treated as a robbery or a break and enter or an assault with

00:19:43.680 a weapon. And I'll tell you why it's because home invasion was never a thing. Historically, when I

00:19:50.080 first started policing on the streets of Toronto, a very, very rough area, you know, home invasion would

00:19:55.600 rarely happen. I could tell you in my almost 15 year career, just in Toronto police, not including

00:20:00.560 the five years in Peel regional police service, but my 15 year career in Toronto police, I had

00:20:04.960 probably responded to two home invasions during that entire time. And keep in mind, I worked in

00:20:10.400 some of the hardest hit areas. And it was so rare that when a home invasion happened, all of us

00:20:15.520 recognized this is a big deal. Somebody coming into an innocent person's house or anybody's home,

00:20:21.200 tying up them or their family and ransacking the place oftentimes of weapons. Afterwards,

00:20:25.600 when we identify these people, they would get charged with robbery, which is a act of theft

00:20:29.440 with an act of violence or a break and enter because they actually had broken into somebody's house

00:20:34.000 or they'd have a weapons charge, but there's no single charge of home invasion. And why that's

00:20:38.320 important is because we don't have accurate statistics to how much that's grown. And it has

00:20:43.760 grown significantly throughout the country. And here's my hypothesis to why it's grown. It's grown

00:20:48.480 because during COVID, there was an abnormal growth of drug use. So a lot of Canadians were stuck in

00:20:54.080 their house and it grew the drug market significantly. There was a lot of demand for

00:20:57.440 drugs and who supplies drugs. Organized crime groups give you the street level gang members,

00:21:01.760 street level gang members distribute it out. People were locked in their house. And when you look

00:21:06.400 about drug dealers and they're dealing a lot of drugs, well, there's a lot of money moving as well.

00:21:09.440 And with that money moving, what happens with gang members is they have to then get weapons,

00:21:13.280 which creates another demand, not just for drug use by people locked into their homes,

00:21:17.360 going through mental health or personal issues. But now drug dealers have to defend their turf.

00:21:21.360 There is no HR system for a drug dealer. So you have to get a gun. Well, that created a whole new

00:21:26.720 different demand for the United States to export guns up to Toronto, which was our huge influx. Now,

00:21:33.120 being a drug dealer in Toronto turned out to be such a dangerous profession because everybody was

00:21:38.000 getting shot because there was no repercussion because in 2019, our bail systems got completely

00:21:42.720 lax under the liberal government. So drug dealers demand more guns. And then the guns come up here

00:21:47.200 and even drug dealers realize, listen, man, being a drug dealer might be a little too dangerous

00:21:51.680 here because I don't want to get shot and killed for dealing drugs and technology evolved. And we've

00:21:56.080 all seen the videos. We've seen videos of guys early on and girls coming into your driveway,

00:22:01.360 pulling your car door handle. And there's always somebody has a backpack. Well, that backpack would

00:22:04.640 connect with a Bluetooth signal and they'd reprogram a key and you'd wake up a couple hours later.

00:22:08.160 And what happens to your car? It's gone. It's off of the driveway. And you'd be like, man,

00:22:11.120 my car is gone. My GPS doesn't work. Well, they were making a lot of money. And the question becomes

00:22:16.400 twofold. Number one is, well, how did this technology evolve so quick? And it was because

00:22:20.960 that's what tech does. That's what the black market does. The black market drives innovation, 1.00

00:22:25.360 you know, not the government. It's always the black market or private sector. In this particular case,

00:22:29.520 the innovation was let's transition from dangerous drug dealing to taking these cars and shipping them out

00:22:35.440 through the ports. And that begs a whole other question. Well, who's asking for these cars? I

00:22:40.560 want you to think early on, what were the types of cars being stolen? It was trucks, SUVs. And we had

00:22:46.800 a couple of them that were taking out in particular, you had, you know, Ford F-150s, you had some Toyota

00:22:51.840 Highlanders, and they were going out to these ports and shipped out overseas. Now, most Canadians think that

00:22:57.280 as it gets shipped out overseas, it's some organized crime group and it's some auto body dealership

00:23:02.560 in Africa that's selling Canadian cars with Ontario license plates. Yeah, that's a part of it.

00:23:06.960 But I want you to think bigger. I want you to look at organizations like terrorist organizations

00:23:12.080 and cartel groups and look at the vehicles that they're using all over the world. It's pickup trucks

00:23:18.160 and SUVs. It just so happens that Canada and Ontario potentially became a source through auto theft

00:23:25.360 innovation to supply organized crime groups internationally with vehicles for them to use in

00:23:30.320 places where they could never get access to it. Now, the people doing these were dumb kids. 0.99

00:23:34.640 And I'm going to say they're dumb kids because a lot of them aren't at the age of 18. I've arrested 1.00

00:23:38.000 young people who've said, look, I am getting paid $5,000 to steal this car, drive it up to Montreal,

00:23:43.280 and off it goes. I don't know where it goes. I don't know who's paying me. I just know I'm getting

00:23:47.040 $5,000. And what happened is, as this is happening, you have these drug dealers working in this

00:23:51.760 really dangerous environment that started to look at all these guys who utilize technology and innovation to

00:23:56.560 start stealing all these cars and making $5,000 a pop on what the legal system considers nothing

00:24:02.240 more than a property offense. And they said, well, I can make a lot more money by stealing cars and

00:24:08.080 there's no repercussion for me. Actually, it's less than being a drug dealer. And that's where these

00:24:12.320 home invasions grew. It's because the same violent offenders who were coming in and dealing drugs and

00:24:19.120 shooting people and killing innocent people in some of our hardest hit communities, the drug dealers

00:24:23.760 transitioned over to auto theft, but the tech was too much for them. They didn't want to pay

00:24:28.080 attention. It was too slow. And these Neanderthals ended up just saying, we're just going to kick in

00:24:33.440 these front doors, hold up families at gunpoint and steal every car. It doesn't matter what type

00:24:38.560 of car it is. We're going to go after luxury cars. We're going to go after pickup trucks. We're going

00:24:42.080 to go after SUVs because they know that they can get away with it. And they know there's a huge black 1.00

00:24:47.360 market for it locally and internationally. And the local proof is just Google search person buys a

00:24:54.320 vehicle from a dealership. Turns out it was revend. That just means that this car was stolen, taken to

00:24:59.360 some shady auto body shop with a dirty employee working in some sort of ministry of transportation,

00:25:04.560 for example, which exists. And they revend a vehicle only later through police investigation.

00:25:09.840 Do we find the vehicle? And then we seize it. So the person who bought the car,

00:25:13.920 sure to tell you, you're out of luck. You're never getting your money back.

00:25:16.720 And then we investigate the dealership. Now that's a very complicated mess, but it's the truth.

00:25:21.600 And that's where home invasion started to skyrocket. So we've had people

00:25:26.000 living a normal life, going to see a movie, but they drive a high-end vehicle and they get surveilled,

00:25:31.440 which just means they get followed by these gang members, organized crime groups back to their

00:25:35.440 house. And when they get followed back to their house, these groups will come back later at night,

00:25:39.440 four in the morning, do these violent home invasions at gunpoint and steal the car

00:25:43.600 keys, hurt the family and not even care. Why don't they care? Because they get on a bill. 0.97

00:25:48.480 There's no repercussion for it. And for all of us wondering, you know, why aren't they doing

00:25:52.960 something about it? It's because the legal system considers this a property crime. They say, well,

00:25:56.640 they were coming in to steal your car. Yes. The robbery side is important. Yes. The weapons in

00:26:00.480 your household, but ultimately it's just a car. And we've seen that viral crap of the Toronto police 0.98

00:26:04.880 officers saying, leave your keys at the front door. Look that went viral. I don't agree with that 0.98

00:26:08.560 because I think it's submission to the bad guys, but I can understand the logic behind it.

00:26:13.520 What he meant to say was, don't risk your family. These guys are coming. There's nothing we can do

00:26:18.320 as police officers because the laws are not accurately representing what needs to get done

00:26:22.640 to keep you and your family safe. We don't want to see you get hurt. If it's just a car, let it go.

00:26:27.280 I know it sucks, but let it go because right now we're handicapped by the federal government

00:26:32.160 and their legislation, specifically Bill C-75. No matter what police officers do in our communities, 0.83

00:26:37.040 if we are catching these repeat violent offenders, if they're getting murderers, by the way,

00:26:41.280 first degree murderers, and they're getting out on releases, well, what else can they tell you?

00:26:45.440 They're giving you practical advice to keep you and your family safe. Now, again,

00:26:49.280 I don't agree with it, but I think I can understand the point he was trying to make. It was just

00:26:53.440 poorly delivered, which happens all the time. So I'll give him a little grace. Now, this family

00:26:58.320 that was the victim of this home invasion in Oakville, they reached out to me and we had a

00:27:01.920 brief conversation and they explained to me what happened on the inside. And that's their story to

00:27:05.760 tell. But what I can tell you is that they are not happy that this has happened to them in the last

00:27:10.880 three weeks, two times where not only were they a victim of a home invasion of somebody breaking into

00:27:16.240 their bedroom with a hammer, but then five other guys had the audacity and confidence to come into their

00:27:21.760 home, break in with a gun, brandish a firearm, and then shoot the gun as one of them was getting

00:27:26.480 taken down. Now, here's a civil lining for this particular story here. The five guys, this family 0.94

00:27:32.000 fights back. They use the baseball bats. They use a fire extinguisher. They fight back to protect

00:27:36.480 themselves and protect their lives. And what happens is four of these cowards take off to leave the 0.98

00:27:41.440 house. But one of them who gets all screwed up from the fire extinguisher runs into the basement and 0.98

00:27:46.800 now he gets stuck. He doesn't know the house. And that's the benefit. If a home invader breaks into your

00:27:50.640 house, guess what? You know your house. They don't know it. So they used it to their advantage in this

00:27:55.280 particular case. And they pinned this bad guy down. Now, the person who pinned him down is a family

00:28:00.400 member who used to play rugby, doesn't mind getting his hands on somebody, gets his hands on the person,

00:28:05.040 holds them down. The other four escaped, but they capture this guy. And he gets arrested and charged

00:28:10.320 with a boatload of offenses while the investigation is pending for the other four.

00:28:14.080 So whether it's a random person who's on multiple releases and convictions of killing innocent

00:28:22.000 people, allegedly, or harming an innocent person, almost killing somebody, which he was convicted of,

00:28:28.800 pulling out a knife, having no fixed address. These are all just single individual items to the court

00:28:34.240 system. Now, what I mean by that is the court system in Canada and the legal system in Canada,

00:28:39.360 does it look at you as a whole person? So when we go back to the first guy, Olivera,

00:28:44.320 who's had this huge history, each individual incident gets treated as its own. The entire

00:28:50.160 history of this person has no weight or bearing on that individual incident. So when he goes out and

00:28:56.400 he aggravates and he assaults and he almost kills a 60-year-old, and then he gets charged with a

00:29:00.640 mischief, that 60-year-old incident, that aggravated assault deprivation, has no bearing or

00:29:06.480 weight on the new mischief charge because they're all allegations until he's proven guilty. Now,

00:29:11.600 when he gets proven guilty, it has a little bit of weight. I'll tell you where the weight is.

00:29:16.080 That weight only comes in if he gets found guilty again. So if he gets convicted again,

00:29:20.560 then that guilty plea or that guilty verdict gets taken in conjunction with the previous conviction,

00:29:26.480 and then it impacts his sentencing, which just means that your previous convictions,

00:29:30.880 convictions, not your allegations, the previous convictions have some weight in your sentencing.

00:29:36.800 But where do we see any of that playing out in any part of it? Now, the world has changed. Canada

00:29:40.880 has changed. The frustration that most of us have, not just you at home, not just normal citizens, and

00:29:46.560 look, I've been resigned from the profession for two years, to have more of a larger public voice,

00:29:50.560 to do things like this on Juneau News, just to educate Canadians as well as advocate for them. I can't

00:29:54.960 tell you the number of messages I get from people from all over the country saying, thank you for

00:29:59.040 speaking about what we're feeling, because it's important. Education is the key. But with this

00:30:03.120 guy here, what a lot of people are kind of stuck on is to say, well, why doesn't our legal system

00:30:07.520 adjust to the current time? And that becomes the most important question, is at what point are we going

00:30:13.280 to innovate and bring our legal system to represent what's actually happening on the ground level?

00:30:18.640 Because there should be some conversations to say, well, how much of the history are we going to take

00:30:23.840 into consideration when we decide if we're going to release this person or not? Because guess what?

00:30:27.600 It has value. And under Bill C-75 under the Liberal government, it still has some value,

00:30:32.960 but it's not prioritized. What's prioritized in Bill C-75, the Bail Catch and Release System,

00:30:38.560 is to put the offender first. The actual wording in the legislation says that we need to be able to put

00:30:44.160 conditions on this bad guy or accused that are as least onerous as possible on him or her. Meaning that

00:30:51.120 if you get accused of committing a crime, like trying to stab two people, when you get put on

00:30:57.280 Catch and Release Bail System under Bill C-75, that law enforcement has to make sure that the conditions

00:31:03.280 we put on are fair to you. That it doesn't ruin your life, regardless of the evidence in the case.

00:31:08.800 And that's where this whole thing blew up and went out of whack. And that's where Canadians are saying,

00:31:13.840 you adjusted our legislation to represent the times in 2019 that were probably driven by ideology as

00:31:20.320 opposed to fact, and really looking at the threat assessment for what the country has now become.

00:31:25.120 Now you also have a responsibility and obligation to deal with the mess by being proactive and represent

00:31:31.120 progressively what's actually happening. So are there things that need to get done? Absolutely. If I were to

00:31:36.480 make some recommendations, which everybody knows it's first, we need to revisit and repeal

00:31:40.880 Bill C-75. That's the lowest hanging fruit. You want to talk about saving lives, stopping crime,

00:31:46.400 putting repeat violent offenders back into custody while they await their trial to keep the rest of us

00:31:50.720 safe. The lowest hanging fruit, the easiest solution is repeal Bill C-75 and go back to the previous

00:31:57.440 bail system, which kept these types of people in custody because the courts were compelled to. Second of that

00:32:03.680 is we need to bring in some new charges to represent the current landscape of what's happening in the

00:32:08.960 country, because it should represent that the government is in tune with what's happening and what's

00:32:12.960 important for many constituents all over the country. Those fences are probably home invasion

00:32:18.080 and carjacking. We don't have two specific criminal code of fences for them, but why it's important to

00:32:22.800 have that in there is because we need to showcase to repeat violent offenders and all criminals that these

00:32:28.080 crimes are so invasive and so serious that we're now creating new criminal charges to accurately represent

00:32:34.240 them. They're no longer going to be broken down to a break and enter and a robbery and a weapons charge

00:32:38.080 and assault charge and a theft charge. Nope. It's a single charge that should be what's called indictable

00:32:43.520 or not hybrid. And all that means is that there's two levels of offenses in Canadian criminal code. One

00:32:49.040 level is called a summary offense. It's the lower end. It's like some kid who steals a chocolate

00:32:53.040 bro from shoppers drug mart. That's called a summary offense. And then you have an indictable offense,

00:32:56.960 which is murder. That's very serious. And the differences between the two are sentencing. How

00:33:02.480 long will somebody get in jail? And how serious does the legal system take it? Then you have hybrid

00:33:07.200 offenses, which is offenses that have both arms, a summary offense and an indictable offense. Frauds,

00:33:12.800 for example, $5,000 is the marker. If it's under $5,000, it's the summary. If it's over $5,000,

00:33:18.000 it's an indictable. But I think it's time now in Canada that we have two straight indictable,

00:33:23.760 serious offenses for home invasions and carjackings. And why? Common sense. Home invasion,

00:33:29.120 somebody breaches that threshold coming into your household. The government needs to show through

00:33:32.960 legislation that this is not okay. We're going to take this serious. And how are we going to take it

00:33:37.120 serious? We have this straight indictable criminal code offense. It also gives some people some peace

00:33:41.440 of mind that, hey, what I felt as a victim, it's understood and it's been heard. Now, additionally to that,

00:33:46.640 we need the same type of value and impact for carjackings. Because I could tell you the same people

00:33:52.320 doing these violent home invasions are the same people that are holding regular people up in

00:33:57.120 the middle of the day at gunpoint and stealing their cars. It's the same people. And why it's

00:34:02.080 important to have the carjacking offense is because we need to call it for what it is. Carjacking gets

00:34:07.280 treated the exact same way as home invasions. There is no carjacking. It's a theft of an automobile.

00:34:11.920 It's a robbery because violence was used. It was a theft of property over 5,000 because most cars are

00:34:17.840 nowadays, especially these ones that are being targeted. The other part of that, the invasive

00:34:22.080 part is when you're occupying your motor vehicle or you're driving your car and you have your kids.

00:34:27.200 And in my case, I have my wife and my kids in my car. That car to me is a home. That's a place of

00:34:32.000 safety. That's why I have locks on my car door. At no point should I feel like I am eligible to be

00:34:38.160 carjacked. And this is not going to be treated as serious as if it wasn't my own home. We need to

00:34:43.440 represent that. So we do need to do those three things. Repeal Bill C-75, bring in a home invasion 0.75

00:34:49.520 charge and bring in a carjacking charge to actually represent what's happening and start sharing more

00:34:53.760 stories among our neighbors to what we need to do to be able to protect ourselves. And protecting

00:34:57.600 ourselves is a whole other topic, which I'm sure we'll dive into, especially after in the region of

00:35:02.800 Vaughn, a homeowner who is having his car stolen by four masked men, utilized a firearm to do shooting

00:35:09.120 to scare him off. And he ended up getting charged, which is a whole other story. Now, Canada, sadly,

00:35:14.400 the crime is going to continue. And we're going to be doing this every Friday on Juneau news.

00:35:19.120 My name is Ron Chenzer. Looking forward to seeing you next Friday and happy Canada day.

Juno News - June 27, 2025

Alleged killer STRIKES while on probation + Family hit by TWO home invasions in ONE month

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