Juno News - August 15, 2025


'Justice' system failing Canadians, again and again


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In July of 2025, a judge sentenced 52-year-old Frank Paris to two years in prison after he pleaded guilty to trafficking cannabis and hashish. The Crown had pushed for a four-year term. But a detailed background report showed that Paris was an intergenerational descendant of Black Nova Scotians, and faced discrimination in housing, employment, and the justice system.

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00:00:00.000 Welcome to The Crime Report with Ron Chinzer, where we cut through the headlines to bring you
00:00:08.580 the real stories behind Canada's most pressing public safety issues. Today, we're going to be
00:00:12.800 diving into cases that will make you question how our justice system works and whether it's
00:00:16.920 doing enough to keep people safe, from controversial sentencing decisions to violent repeat offenders
00:00:21.960 and preventable tragedies. These are the stories shaping our communities right now. Before we begin,
00:00:27.280 a quick reminder, visit junonews.com forward slash Ron to save 20% off of your subscription and stay
00:00:33.760 informed with the full unfiltered coverage you can't get anywhere else. Now let's go to July of
00:00:39.020 2025, where Judge Magali LePage, in a city just outside of Montreal, sentenced 52-year-old Frank
00:00:44.940 Paris to two years in prison after he pleaded guilty to trafficking cannabis and hashish. The
00:00:49.980 Crown had pushed for a four-year term. The reduced sentence came after his lawyer presented a detailed
00:00:54.600 background report showing Paris, the born and raised in Montreal, as an intergenerational
00:00:58.800 descendant of Black Nova Scotians. That report outlined a lifetime of systemic racism, being
00:01:04.280 wrongfully detained in an immigrant holding cell despite being Canadian and facing discrimination in
00:01:09.300 housing, employment, education, health care, and the justice system. Because he had already served
00:01:14.740 significant time in custody before sentencing, Paris was released immediately. His lawyer later said it
00:01:19.720 was surreal to shake his hand the next day knowing that he was already a free man. Quebec's minister
00:01:24.540 responsible for the fight against racism, Christopher Skeet, publicly voiced concerns on August 7th,
00:01:29.460 2025, calling the decision a sad first for Quebec. He warned the risks of creating two classes of
00:01:36.340 citizens, one racialized and one not, and argued that the efforts to address racism shouldn't create
00:01:42.720 inequality under the law. Defense lawyer Sharon Sandefur countered that the judge was simply applying
00:01:48.960 existing case law similar to how the courts in Nova Scotia regularly consider reports outlining an
00:01:55.360 offender's background and the impact of systemic racism. To understand the bigger picture, Canada
00:02:01.040 already has a legal requirement to consider personal and historical factors in sentencing. Indigenous
00:02:06.320 offenders, under what's known as the Gladue Principles, stemming from a Supreme Court ruling in 1999 and
00:02:12.080 2012. Now these factors include colonial trauma, poverty, and intergenerational effects of residential
00:02:18.880 schools. There is no equivalent law for Black Canadians, though in practice reports like Paris's
00:02:24.880 have been used in some provinces. Some communities, including Black Nova Scotians, have relied on these
00:02:30.320 reports to show how discrimination shaped their lives. But unlike Gladue reports, judges aren't required to
00:02:36.880 consider them. The issue of systemic bias in Quebec has surfaced before. In September of 2024, a Quebec
00:02:44.240 judge ruled that racial profiling was systemic in the Montreal police force and ordered a compensation
00:02:49.840 for victims. That ruling, and now this sentencing decision, showed that the recognition of systemic racism
00:02:56.480 is slowly entering Quebec's legal framework, but inconsistently. Frank Paris's case marks the first time
00:03:04.080 systemic racism was formally recognized as a sentencing factor for a Black individual in Quebec. It has
00:03:10.560 ignited a national debate over whether the justice system should formally extend similar considerations to
00:03:16.000 racialized Canadians beyond Indigenous populations, or whether that there risks creating a system that
00:03:22.480 applies the law differently depending on who you are. Now justice got an urgent wake-up call in Brampton. A
00:03:28.880 judge's decision to let a man convicted five times of impaired driving walk free without serving a day in
00:03:34.240 jail has been struck down as an affront to the administration of justice. A higher court stepped in
00:03:39.920 and imposed the mandatory four-month prison sentence. Now this all began on the night of November 27th of 2020,
00:03:46.240 when Joseph LaCare drove the wrong way down Winston Churchill Boulevard in Mississauga. His Toyota RAV4 was
00:03:52.720 missing its front passenger side tire, just the rim spinning, throwing sparks as he swerved through traffic.
00:03:58.480 The vehicle was later found abandoned, and police found LeClaire nearby, stumbling, slurring his words,
00:04:04.800 and admitting he had a fentanyl patch for pain. They also found a bag of pink powder later confirmed to
00:04:10.640 be fentanyl, and the toxicology results show 38 nanograms of fentanyl and 131 nanograms of
00:04:17.120 another drug in his system. Now this was LeClaire's fifth impaired driving conviction, and he was already
00:04:23.680 under a two-year driving prohibition from his most recent offense in April of 2019. He pleaded guilty
00:04:30.800 to impaired operation and driving while disqualified. Now let's go to sentencing in March of 2025, where
00:04:36.960 the trial judge openly acknowledged the law required jail time, but instead granted house arrest. When the
00:04:43.760 Crown prosecutor warned that this was not permitted by a statute, the judge responded, I know, but what if I do?
00:04:50.400 The Crown appealed, and on July 10th, Superior Court Justice Jennifer Wolcombe delivered a blistering
00:04:56.800 decision. She ruled there was no legal basis for a conditional sentence, called the trial judge's
00:05:02.880 actions a deliberate refusal to apply the law, and ordered the 120-day jail term. LeClaire was given 48
00:05:09.760 hours from July 15th to surrender to authorities. Cases like this, they aren't isolated. Across Canada,
00:05:16.880 repeat impaired drivers, especially those already banned from driving, typically face real jail time.
00:05:22.640 In Newfoundland, a driver with five prior convictions got six months in custody. In Saskatchewan, another
00:05:29.600 with the same record received a year. In one extreme case, a man with dozens of driving and impaired
00:05:35.760 convictions was sentenced to four years behind bars. The pattern, it's very clear, repeated impaired
00:05:41.760 driving is met with prison, not leniency. This matters because mandatory sentences exist to protect
00:05:48.160 the public. Conditional sentences, like house arrest, are reserved for low-risk offenders, not serial
00:05:54.640 offenders who have shown that they will break the law again and again. The human angle in this is pretty
00:05:59.920 stark. LeClaire had five chances to change each course, but each time he chose to put lives at risk.
00:06:06.240 This time, the higher court reasserted the law's authority and sent a message. Justice, it's not
00:06:12.160 optional, and public safety comes first. By July 15th of 2025, Joseph LeClaire will finally serve his
00:06:19.120 time behind bars. Now, here's a story that's raising serious questions, not just about one violent
00:06:24.720 incident, but about our system of release and public safety. On Saturday, August 9th, 2025, at approximately
00:06:31.600 9.40 a.m., Abbotsford police were dispatched to the Elwood laundromat located at McClure near Townline
00:06:38.640 Road after reports of a stabbing. Now, when the officers arrived, they found the business owner with
00:06:44.560 life-threatening injuries following what police described as an altercation with an unknown person
00:06:50.480 allegedly attempting theft. The victim was rushed to the trauma hospital in the Vancouver area and has
00:06:55.680 since been upgraded to stable condition after surgery. Now, within minutes, officers tracked down the
00:07:00.720 suspect identified as 40-year-old Timothy Richard Louis Rowley in the backyard of a neighboring home
00:07:07.040 and arrested him by around 9.49 a.m. He now faces charges of assault with a weapon and aggravated
00:07:12.880 assault and appeared before a justice of the peace on Sunday, August 10th. Now, he remains in custody as
00:07:19.040 we know it, and his court appearance is pending and scheduled for August 14th. Now, what's especially
00:07:24.640 alarming and what makes this case stand out is that Rowley was on a statutory release at the time. In
00:07:30.640 Canada, the statutory release requires most federal offenders to be released after serving two-thirds
00:07:36.560 of their sentence under supervision. Now, taking a look back at his history reveals a very unsettling
00:07:42.320 pattern of a repeated violence and instability under supervision. In May of 2019, while intoxicated,
00:07:49.360 Rowley strangled someone with a shoelace during a police interview. Then, nine hours later, he broke into
00:07:54.240 the apartment of a 57-year-old paraplegic man, set fire to the property, and stabbed him six times,
00:07:59.760 resulting in broken ribs and a punctured lung. The victim spent five days in hospital,
00:08:05.280 and Rowley was sentenced to nearly six years for that crime. But his parole record shows multiple
00:08:10.480 breaches. Day parole revoked within a month in 2022, then reinstated in March of 2023, with further
00:08:18.240 breaches, including the failing of drug tests, stealing, hiding in a bathroom and stripping naked,
00:08:23.840 and coordinating drugs into a prison using a cell phone. Now, his criminal record stretches way back
00:08:29.120 to 2004, including assault, coddling, causing bodily harm in Abbotsford, assaulting a police officer,
00:08:35.680 a vehicle theft, weapons offenses, fraud, and even cruelty to animals, such as fatally beating a Canada
00:08:41.920 goose in August 2018, for which he served 72 days. In short, this is someone with more than 20 convictions over
00:08:49.280 two decades and a worrying inability to manage himself even under supervision. Now, there are
00:08:54.880 some stories in Canada, cases where violent offenders on conditional releases commit new crimes. One
00:09:00.400 noted parallel is in Vancouver's downtown Eastside, where earlier this year, a man on statutory release
00:09:05.920 was arrested for armed robbery shortly after release. Now, these incidents echo the same systemic
00:09:11.840 challenge, balancing reintegration with public safety, and legal experts argue that high-risk individuals
00:09:17.280 may need a stricter bail and release safeguards, like requiring stronger supervision or denying
00:09:22.240 release outright when the offender's history shows repeated failures under conditional terms.
00:09:27.600 In this Abbotsford incident, bail isn't even on the table yet. As far as we know,
00:09:32.080 Rowley is being held in custody ahead of his August 14th court date. But the story shines a strong
00:09:37.920 light on the question, should statutory release always apply, even in the face of long, violent,
00:09:44.080 and chaotic criminal records? We'll continue to follow this case closely, especially in the
00:09:48.480 upcoming court proceedings. Share your thoughts. Should laws around statutory release change?
00:09:53.920 Drop in a comment below and stay safe and stay informed. Now, let's go back to something else. I'm
00:09:59.520 about to share a deeply tragic story from Ontario that's been resonating across the province. On the
00:10:06.400 evening of August 3rd, 2025, around 9 o'clock p.m. on Highway 48th near Aurora Road in White Church,
00:10:13.040 Stouffville, 35-year-old Andrew Cristerillo, a devoted father of three, was driving home with his wife
00:10:19.120 Christina and their daughters, Leah, Chloe, and Ella. Out of nowhere, their car was struck head-on.
00:10:24.880 Andrew was killed instantly. His wife and their daughters were left severely injured. Christina,
00:10:31.360 who has been bravely battling advanced breast cancer, managed to escape through the shattered windshield
00:10:36.080 and pull her girls to safety as they cried out for their dad. In an instant, their lives were
00:10:40.880 changed forever. The man accused in this crash is 18-year-old Jaewyn Victor Kirobenathan of Oshawa.
00:10:47.760 He now faces multiple charges, dangerous driving causing death, three counts of dangerous driving
00:10:53.200 causing bodily harm, failing to remain at the scene, and public mischief. But this was not his first serious
00:10:59.280 incident behind the wheel. Back in January 8th of 2025, Kirobenathan was already charged with
00:11:06.160 allegedly colliding with a vehicle carrying Ontario Premier Doug Ford. Police say he was traveling at
00:11:11.520 more than 200 kilometers per hour, cutting across three lanes on Highway 401 before slamming into the
00:11:17.200 Premier's SUV. Miraculously, no one was injured, but Premier Ford later called the accused an idiot,
00:11:23.600 saying he hit me right on my door. We didn't even know what hit us. And noting that people across
00:11:29.440 Ontario share his outrage despite the severity of the January incident, Kirobenathan wasn't arrested
00:11:34.960 or put behind bars. Instead, he was given a Form 9 appearance notice, which means he could remain
00:11:40.960 free until his court date. No bail hearing, no driving suspension, beyond a short penalty for stunt driving.
00:11:46.960 And he was back on the road just months later. Now, Andrew's family is left grieving. His brother
00:11:52.880 Jordan called the crash the result of a complete and utter negligence and recklessness, saying justice
00:11:59.040 means that this doesn't happen to other families. They don't need to experience the unbearable pain.
00:12:04.480 The community has rallied behind Christina and the girls. A GoFundMe campaign has raised more than $420,000
00:12:11.680 with messages describing Andrew as a beautiful soul full of life and pledging ongoing support.
00:12:17.680 The most troubling question is how someone with such a recent history of reckless driving
00:12:22.080 was allowed back behind the wheel. Lawyers point out that under current Canadian law, dangerous driving
00:12:27.840 charges do not trigger automatic pretrial restrictions the way stunt driving does, which carries an immediate
00:12:33.680 30-day driving ban. Road safety advocates argue this loophole is dangerous and that too many tragedies like
00:12:39.760 this could be prevented with stronger measures and that this isn't the only case raising alarms.
00:12:45.760 Across Canada, there have been other tragedies where high-risk drivers already facing serious charges
00:12:51.920 were released only to cause new harm. Families from British Columbia to Ontario have echoed the same plea.
00:12:57.840 If someone has already shown blatant disregard for a life on the roadway, keeping them off the streets
00:13:03.040 until trial isn't just prudent, it's necessary. On August 13th, Kira Bandithan appeared in an Oshawa 0.88
00:13:09.440 courtroom for a bail hearing. Dressed in a white shirt, he sat behind glass, sometimes burying his
00:13:14.320 head in his hands. Now he mouthed thank you to his family members in the gallery. Across the aisle sat
00:13:21.520 the Cristillo family grieving, recovering, and waiting for justice. The hearing lasted seven hours and the
00:13:28.160 judge's decision on bail in possible conditions is expected by Friday. Premier Ford hasn't softened his
00:13:34.960 stance. Again, condemning the accused's recklessness in both incidents. Now this is more than courtroom
00:13:40.960 drama. It's a wake-up call. It shows how one decision on the road or in the courtroom can shatter lives.
00:13:46.800 It highlights the urgent need to examine our laws, close dangerous loopholes, and put public safety first.
00:13:53.600 Because for Christina, Leah, Chloe, and Ella, the damage is permanent. And for the rest of us, the question
00:13:58.960 remains, how many more warnings will it take before we act? Now imagine a world where police are fighting
00:14:06.480 crime with tools built for yesterday, while criminals are operating like it's tomorrow. Now that's the
00:14:11.600 reality Canada's top police chiefs are warning us about. On August 12th, 2025, Thomas Karik, the
00:14:17.680 Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police and President of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of
00:14:22.640 Police, told a gathering in Victoria that our laws are outdated and inadequate, no longer up to the
00:14:29.040 job of policing, a world where borders don't matter to criminals. He pointed out that his association
00:14:34.960 first proposed updating these laws back in 2001, yet here we are still waiting. Organized crime groups
00:14:41.360 are exploiting global unrest, trafficking drugs, weapons, and people across borders using our legal blind
00:14:47.040 spots and digital loopholes. To tackle this, the federal government introduced Bill C-2,
00:14:52.000 also called the Strong Borders Act on June 3rd, 2025. It's a sweeping law aimed at strengthening border
00:14:58.960 security and giving law enforcement better tools to fight fentanyl, money laundering, and transnational
00:15:03.920 organized crime. The bill expands Coast Guard powers to patrol Arctic waters and to gather intelligent,
00:15:09.520 boosts information sharing between federal and provincial agencies, and gives Canada Post enhanced
00:15:14.960 authority to inspect the mail for contraband, and allows authorities to pause, cancel, or charge,
00:15:20.480 or change, immigration documents in the interest of the public. Now, it doesn't strip someone of
00:15:26.160 their permanent or temporary residential status, but asylum seekers who wait more than a year or
00:15:30.960 cross between official checkpoints will have reduced access to full refugee hearings. Karik says the bill
00:15:36.960 gives police many, but not all, of the tools they need to deal with modern crime. He flagged a glaring
00:15:43.200 loophole. No judge can currently issue a search warrant for a Canada Post package under 500 grams,
00:15:49.920 even if it may contain enough fentanyl to kill. He also reiterated the need for bail reform,
00:15:55.600 pointing to a two-day police operation in downtown Victoria where many people were arrested, only to be
00:16:00.640 rearrested the very next day after being released on bail. Now, while Canada's crime severity index dropped by
00:16:06.480 about 4.1% in 2024, Karik warns that statistics don't tell the whole story. One victim is still
00:16:14.080 too many, and public trust depends on more than numbers. This isn't the first time Canada has seen
00:16:19.440 the gap between law and modern threats. During the 2022 Freedom Convoy, legal limits on freezing bank
00:16:25.440 accounts or shutting down blockades forced the federal government to invoke the Emergencies Act, an
00:16:31.120 extraordinary move that highlighted how quickly things can spiral when laws don't keep up. Now,
00:16:36.800 Canada has faced similar challenges in the fight against fentanyl. Organized crime networks have
00:16:41.840 adapted faster than our legislation, pushing law enforcement into a constant game of catch-up.
00:16:47.920 The Strong Borders Act is a step, but as Karik made clear, there are still blind spots. Criminals will
00:16:54.720 exploit until they're closed. So why should you care? Because this is about balancing safety and liberty.
00:17:00.720 Bill C-2 gives police new powers, but leaves dangerous loopholes. Bail reform is on the way,
00:17:07.520 allegedly, but not yet in place. And ordinary Canadians, people just trying to get their mail
00:17:12.880 safely, might be shocked to learn that potentially lethal packages under 500 grams can't even be
00:17:18.160 searched. Lawmakers, they need to listen, and Canadians want laws that keep us safe and still protect our
00:17:24.400 rights. That's the Canada we should all expect and demand. Now, this next story is equal parts tragedy
00:17:32.400 and mystery, the kind that shakes a close-knit community. On July 27th in Dundas, Ontario,
00:17:37.840 a 25-year-old single father named Zachary Schumann was shot and killed. He leaves behind a three-year-old
00:17:43.280 daughter and a family now grappling with a devastating loss. The day unfolded like this. Around 5 p.m.,
00:17:48.720 Hamilton police were called to a parking lot where they found Schumann unresponsive. He was pronounced
00:17:54.240 dead at the scene. Leading up to that moment, Schumann had met with two men in a metro parking lot
00:17:58.880 on Governor's Road. A planned encounter, allegedly. But something went wrong. A disturbance broke out.
00:18:05.040 Schumann then followed the pair, driving a blue Ford Edge to this more isolated lot. And that's where
00:18:10.240 he was fatally shot. Witnesses saw the two men drive off and police later recovered the vehicle in
00:18:15.440 Kitchener. But the weapon has not yet been found. And on August 10th, 30-year-old Andrew Kowalik from
00:18:21.520 Dundas was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. A day later, on August 11th, 27-year-old
00:18:27.760 Moosey Gebermeriam from Kitchener faced the same charge. Now, both men appeared in court and remain
00:18:33.360 in custody as we know it. Now, police say they're not looking for any other suspects. But investigators
00:18:41.440 note that all three men, Schumann, Kowalik, and Gebermeriam, knew each other from the Dundas area
00:18:46.960 and had known one another for years. Importantly, Gebermeriam is known in Hamilton as a drug trafficker.
00:18:54.320 And according to Detective Sergeant Sarah Beck, while the exact reason for the meeting remains
00:18:58.640 unclear, police believe that this case may involve drugs. Now, this tragedy leaves behind a grieving
00:19:03.920 family and a little girl, now in her grandparents' care. The community has rallied, raising nearly 42,000
00:19:09.840 U.S. dollars through a GoFundMe to help the family manage in the wake of their loss. Sadly,
00:19:14.880 this isn't an isolated incident. Hamilton has seen 27 shootings so far this year, with five
00:19:20.720 being fatal, a worrying trend for locals. For perspective, it's hard not to think back to
00:19:25.840 another heartbreaking Hamilton case, the 2019 stabbing of 14-year-old Devin Bracke Selvey
00:19:31.440 outside Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School. While that was a schoolyard stabbing, and this is a
00:19:37.200 drug-linked shooting, both exposed how violence can ripple through tight communities, leaving
00:19:42.160 families forever altered. As for bail, both Cowlick and Gebermeriam remain in custody as we know it,
00:19:48.560 and in Canada, second-degree murder charges typically mean no bail is granted because of the severity and
00:19:54.000 risk. Cowlick is scheduled for another court appearance on August 25th, and we'll be watching
00:19:58.560 closely to see how this case unfolds. So what's next? Police are gathering evidence, searching for
00:20:03.680 weapons, and piecing together that fateful evening. In the meantime, a young child grows up without her
00:20:08.400 father, and a community demands answers. We're going to continue to follow this case, and more
00:20:14.320 importantly, look to see if any of these accused parties got bail, because while second-degree murder
00:20:18.800 demands bail doesn't be allowed, we've seen this happen time and time again throughout the country.
00:20:23.280 And for our final story, let's go to Friday, August 8th, 2025, at 2.42 a.m. in downtown Toronto.
00:20:30.400 Imagine walking with friends along King Street West near Sudbury Street, just another late-night
00:20:35.600 evening. Then suddenly, gunshots shattered the comm. This was no drive-by. It was a terrifying,
00:20:41.360 unprovoked ambush. A man on a motorcycle zoomed by the group, nearly hitting them. Seconds later,
00:20:47.520 he reappeared, shouting obscenities. As the group turned to leave, the rider vanished,
00:20:52.320 only to wait at the end of the laneway. And then, fire. Shots rang out, unprovoked and brutal.
00:20:57.760 Multiple rounds. A man and a woman, both in the 30s, were hit and left with injuries,
00:21:01.760 described as both life-threatening and life-altering. They're rushed to hospital,
00:21:06.080 fighting to survive. Fast forward to Tuesday, August 12th, 2025. Toronto Police's Integrated
00:21:12.640 Gun and Gang Task Force swooped in. 32-year-old Neem Alexander from Toronto was under arrest.
00:21:18.480 He now faces a mountain of charges. Four counts of attempted murder, two counts of aggravated assault,
00:21:23.840 unauthorized possession of a loaded restricted firearm, occupying a motor vehicle with a firearm,
00:21:28.560 and possession of a firearm while under a prohibition order. That's right. He wasn't
00:21:33.520 supposed to have a gun in the first place. Now, he was scheduled to appear in a court in the very
00:21:37.280 same day, August 12th at Toronto's Regional Bail Courts in Room 301 at 10 a.m. Given the severity of
00:21:43.680 the charges, multiple attempted murder counts, the use of a weapon, and prior prohibition order,
00:21:49.200 granting bail seems unlikely, yet details on whether it was granted or denied weren't made public yet.
00:21:55.840 Now, the prohibition order alone suggests a very high risk, lightly swaying a judge to keep him
00:22:01.680 behind bars while awaiting trial. Emergency crews were called shortly after 2.30 a.m.,
00:22:06.720 though the official police timestamp is 2.42 a.m., a small detail, but one that shows how quickly
00:22:12.400 everything unfolds as authorities scramble to respond. And police have been seeking any dash camera
00:22:17.520 security footage that might have captured the suspect circling back or firing those shots.
00:22:22.240 Now, this incident echoes another shocking Toronto case earlier in 2025, the Piper's Arm pub mass
00:22:29.280 shooting on March 7th in Scarborough. That night, three mass gunmen stored into a packed pub at 10.39 p.m.,
00:22:36.160 firing wildly. Twelve people were hurt, nine by gunfire. Miraculously, no one died, but the injuries were
00:22:42.720 described as life-altering. Both cases are examples of public, unprovoked gun violence in Toronto,
00:22:49.680 one in a crowded pub, the other in a laneway at 2.42 a.m. Different settings, same raw terror,
00:22:55.120 and both are a reminder that public safety can be shattered in an instant. Two people just walking
00:23:00.560 with friends were nearly killed, possibly permanently altered, by a motorcyclist's hatred, aggression,
00:23:06.320 or impulse. Neem Alexander now faces some of the most serious charges under the law.
00:23:11.280 As the case unfolds and we watch the bail process closely, one thing is clear, this was an attack on
00:23:16.960 civility itself, reminding us just how fragile safety can be. If you saw something, heard something,
00:23:23.040 or spotted a dash cam clip, call Toronto Police at 416-808-2510 or contact Crime Stoppers, whichever
00:23:30.240 way you like, whether by phone or going online to their website. One small clue could make a huge difference.
00:23:36.160 Now that wraps up this edition of the Crime Report with Ron Chinser. These stories aren't just
00:23:40.400 headlines, they're warnings, lessons, and calls for change. Every case we've covered in today's show
00:23:46.000 shows how decisions made in a courtroom and by lawmakers directly impact public safety on our
00:23:51.440 streets. The more informed we are, the harder it is for these issues to be ignored. If you want to keep
00:23:57.040 digging into these stories and others like them, visit junonews.com forward slash Ron to save 20%
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