True Patriot Love - September 12, 2026


Canada’s Crime Crisis Is Getting Younger and Bolder


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00:00:00.000 400,000?
00:00:01.200 So two kilograms, 400,000.
00:00:04.940 Wow.
00:00:05.660 So let me put that into perspective for you.
00:00:07.560 Yeah.
00:00:08.520 What does drug trafficking mean in Canada?
00:00:10.980 The further you go north, the more you get for your Coke.
00:00:19.520 TPL Crime Weekly Update.
00:00:21.800 That's what we're doing.
00:00:22.640 I'm Mike Palmacucci joining me for this.
00:00:25.100 And every week we have a look at what's going on in crime across the country here in Canada.
00:00:31.020 Wow, Paul, some very interesting stories this week.
00:00:35.180 Again, every week it seems.
00:00:36.880 You don't want to laugh at crime, but it just seems like most crimes are just a bad idea to begin with.
00:00:42.880 And when they are busted, you just realize how wild it is.
00:00:47.820 And they're not slowing down. That's the crazy part.
00:00:49.940 No. Did you hear about this? Kids allegedly breaking into homes for luxury cars. Kids.
00:00:55.100 Yeah, 13-year-old.
00:00:57.040 Yeah, York Region Police's Project Howler resulted in 13 charges
00:01:01.220 against four youths from Toronto, including a 13-year-old,
00:01:05.140 according to City News here in Toronto.
00:01:07.620 Police allege the network was responsible for more than 50 break-ins
00:01:11.460 and vehicle thefts across York Region and neighboring jurisdictions.
00:01:17.040 So this is interesting.
00:01:18.880 They entered people's homes looking for the keys and weapons,
00:01:23.060 so they weren't just looking for cars.
00:01:25.520 No, no, and they were armed.
00:01:27.760 Yeah.
00:01:28.300 Yeah.
00:01:28.860 So imagine a 13-year-old at your door trying to get in your house,
00:01:33.000 and he's got a gun in his hand.
00:01:35.400 Yeah.
00:01:36.260 Well, that's insane.
00:01:38.500 So including firearms, they were brandished in some of the incidents,
00:01:41.740 and seven stolen vehicles were recovered.
00:01:44.780 When the alleged car thieves are 13 years old, Paul,
00:01:48.640 I don't even know if the car is being stolen is the story.
00:01:53.320 No, no.
00:01:54.500 It's the person behind the kids that's teaching them to do this
00:01:57.680 or giving them the tools or the money or the access or whatever it is, right?
00:02:03.100 Yeah, and that's a very brazen thing to get a 13-year-old doing.
00:02:07.660 And then the other ones involved all youth.
00:02:10.820 That was just the youngest.
00:02:13.800 But, Mike, don't you think you can work backwards?
00:02:16.140 See, this is where I don't, you know, I've said this on other shows.
00:02:18.540 Don't you think this is one probably fairly easy for the cops to work backwards on?
00:02:22.540 Well, I think that was the mission behind this Project Howler was, okay, we've got kids at the front end.
00:02:29.920 Where's the butt end on this coming from?
00:02:33.360 Yeah.
00:02:33.960 You know what's interesting?
00:02:35.640 Once again, and I hate to, it sounds like I'm the organized crime guy now.
00:02:39.960 Hi, I'm Sam Cooper.
00:02:41.760 No, no, no.
00:02:43.000 It's not that.
00:02:44.220 There's so much organized crime taking hold that now they're linking this to organized crime.
00:02:49.540 Like you say, it's a syndicate of operation.
00:02:52.540 yeah but a 13 year old kid my cripes you catch a 13 year old kid in your house
00:02:57.960 you probably snap them in half right like it's like it's a 13 year olds is fairly you know they
00:03:03.420 can be a big kid but 13 year old still a 13 year old they're not that developed muscular
00:03:07.640 quite frankly you hit them you're gonna hurt them yeah and bad and you're gonna snap them pretty
00:03:14.240 hard so the the other thing you would for sure okay i might have a struggle i guess but many
00:03:20.980 people yeah would just a 13 year old kid is not a problem the other thing is it's disorienting i
00:03:26.900 think to all of us to see youth doing a crime oh yeah so you might not even realize it's happening
00:03:33.080 to your house until it's already well underway and you're like what are these kids these are kids
00:03:38.740 you know but really they're being backed by yeah but it's you know it's dark they're entering your
00:03:44.140 home whether or not you have a weapon in your home if you come up on them quickly and attack
00:03:49.060 you know you're gonna go right through them you know it's that's you're not only a good a bad thing
00:03:55.980 on all fronts but quite frankly you put that kid in total danger because that kid can't no way it's
00:04:01.400 gonna be able to defend itself i know they might have a weapon or a gun but you know kind of feels
00:04:06.640 to me like whoever's behind this that crime of organizing these kids needs to be way more severe
00:04:13.660 that you're putting a child in danger oh yeah because coercion of a kid you know i had my kids
00:04:20.120 doing crimes for me all the time no but it's it's easy i think to coerce a young person with
00:04:27.280 small things like video games or yeah a little bit of cash or you know whatever the case might
00:04:33.820 be even extortion on them that they did another crime and that you'll turn them it doesn't take
00:04:38.480 much, I don't think, to turn a kid to a life of crime this way. This is another one. $400,000
00:04:44.220 worth of cocaine headed into, are you ready for this, Nick? Equalute. It's a geographically
00:04:53.760 different Canadian story when it comes to drug dealing. The RCMP announced yesterday that a
00:04:59.560 Montreal man was arrested on a Canada-wide warrant following an Equalute cocaine trafficking
00:05:06.260 investigation. Police say two kilograms of cocaine. This is the key right here with an
00:05:11.240 estimated Nunavut street value of approximately 400,000 were removed from the territory. The
00:05:18.920 accused faces cocaine trafficking and conspiracy charges and remains before the courts. So
00:05:24.120 400,000. So two kilograms, 400,000. Wow. So let me put that into perspective for you. Yeah.
00:05:33.120 What does drug trafficking mean in Canada?
00:05:36.300 The further you go north, the more you get for your Coke.
00:05:39.680 Oh, yeah.
00:05:40.300 That's the reality.
00:05:41.640 So this free value of around $100,000 in many Canadian cities or to $150,000, $400,000.
00:05:50.000 So, you know, make that extra flight.
00:05:51.840 Make that extra risk.
00:05:53.180 Get up into an area that's less secure and you'll make more money with your drugs.
00:05:57.380 now it's interesting because a lot of resources and a lot of money had flowed up into that region
00:06:03.100 in the last decade right right a lot you're right a lot of they're building colleges they're creating
00:06:08.800 yeah right resources uh you know that's been the big thing up there right is developing all the
00:06:15.540 um trying to think what it is in noon of it but uh yeah it's been resource rich so quite frankly
00:06:21.580 you know they're up there developing them and i guess there's so much money i wonder if that's
00:06:26.880 street value of 400 000 for two kilograms of coke yeah and you know i put i kind of
00:06:33.360 presented this to you earlier do you really need to be more awake and alert in equally or do you
00:06:39.360 really i don't know i i figured the pot game would be uh bigger up there but that's i guess they're
00:06:44.400 bored it's just an interesting thing a 400 000 valuation for just two kilograms kind of gives us
00:06:49.920 the uh idea of the incentive to get up there with the drugs yeah ouch uh calgary's extortion problem
00:06:55.840 When I returned from the West, Paul, you and I had a discussion.
00:06:58.900 I remember saying to you, even on the phone from out there,
00:07:01.860 well, stand by.
00:07:03.020 The extortion stories from Calgary are about to begin.
00:07:06.520 While I was there, some shooting up of several homes.
00:07:10.420 And in fact, I was in Calgary for two days, I think.
00:07:16.300 On the third day when I came back,
00:07:17.800 so there was three days in a row that there were shootings.
00:07:21.440 Alberta, you know, Calgary police have now released images of 15 people they want identified.
00:07:29.840 Fifteen?
00:07:30.620 Yeah.
00:07:31.220 Oh, wow. 1.00
00:07:31.740 Alberta's got a big ring going on here.
00:07:34.700 They're all in connection with an investigation involving 49 extortion-related incidents targeting members of the South Asian community.
00:07:44.200 This isn't isolated to Calgary.
00:07:45.760 As I made my way across, we were talking about this, extortion in B.C.,
00:07:50.900 Surrey is wrought with it. Alberta, Ontario, and then earlier this year, CBSA said that it opened
00:07:57.200 372 immigration investigations linked to extortion, resulting in that point in 70 people being
00:08:06.060 removed and 35 enforced removals from the country. So federally, the RCMP announced a joint operation
00:08:13.620 with the FBI. It's so bad. Extortion, drug trafficking, kidnapping, and violence in Canada
00:08:18.300 and the united states the focus of that uh combined effort you know mike i thought this
00:08:24.300 was coming off the oil patch when you first told me about it i was thinking okay you know you hear
00:08:28.760 about all these uh drugs and gambling and crazy incidents up on the oil patch i thought that was
00:08:35.680 it but it seems to be bigger than that oh it's it's not it's it's coming from back home or it's
00:08:40.860 coming here so being set up as part of you know the best understanding the police have of this
00:08:46.600 is that you may have a debt getting here you may have a debt that you did not resolve back home
00:08:54.200 and there is a wide network of people out there ready to take the bounty to threaten you in this
00:08:59.080 country to get you to pay to expose you to so you ran up a big bill back home potentially yeah
00:09:05.960 on the way here someone hires you to to collect and they come here the other thing is they're
00:09:12.680 looking at uh illegal loans that were used in uh financing for mortgage so some people are not
00:09:19.800 paying back that original amount of money to whatever street money they got and this is how
00:09:24.520 it's being enforced so yeah you're right it's it's shocking that it's in the suburbs right yeah uh
00:09:31.720 now one last one if uh if you haven't heard paul and i speculate on this before i'd be surprised
00:09:38.280 But we started talking about this probably a year ago now, how certain IDs, well, what is the actual illegal immigrant population of Canada?
00:09:50.580 It's hard to know because in our speculation and now being revealed that there are millions of Canadian identities for sale out there on the dark web.
00:09:59.420 The FBI is investigating reports that tens of millions of U.S. and Canadian driver's licenses were being offered for sale through dark web services called Nexus.
00:10:08.840 Journalist Brian Krebs, amazing work, by the way, finding digital scans of licenses and other identification documents.
00:10:15.860 He reportedly verified records with nine people and even found his own license being used as a sample.
00:10:23.520 Oh, my goodness.
00:10:24.220 So if you want to get a license like this, and there he was.
00:10:27.540 And the project, the dark web service is called Nexus, like you get a Nexus card.
00:10:34.220 Right.
00:10:34.820 Oh, wow.
00:10:35.260 That's brazen.
00:10:36.080 Oh, no, no.
00:10:36.580 They really named it aptly.
00:10:38.540 Wow.
00:10:38.860 And no one from our government's moved to shut that down.
00:10:42.100 Well, at the moment, well, here's the really disturbing part.
00:10:44.820 Or the U.S. government.
00:10:45.480 Check this out.
00:10:46.380 Researchers believe the database appeared to be updating in real time.
00:10:52.040 Oh, wow.
00:10:52.940 So did you get a new license?
00:10:54.780 Okay, we got the new one, too.
00:10:55.780 oh wow so it's just constantly churning and churning and churning um this is like an ai
00:11:03.920 animal of its own that just keeps producing identification for people yeah and now the
00:11:10.600 fbi says we have no idea how they're getting this information and actually how they're getting it
00:11:15.940 out there on the dark web so encrypted and secretly uh so a high quality license image
00:11:22.360 can potentially become one component in synthetic identity fraud account takeover financial fraud
00:11:28.360 attempts to defeat identity verification systems and even to transfer your mortgage yeah which
00:11:35.560 you know in the states is a bigger issue right is actually mortgage fraud and yeah it is a big issue
00:11:40.960 but this is interesting mike so let's take an example you're a lee yeah right so you show up
00:11:47.480 And quite frankly, you get an ID, you come as a visitor, you get an ID.
00:11:53.200 And next thing you know, you get a driver's license.
00:11:56.000 With that driver's license, I can apply for another driver's license.
00:11:59.180 Right.
00:11:59.520 Then you get a health card.
00:12:00.820 And then all of a sudden, now I got a health card, a driver's license, a couple of credit cards.
00:12:05.680 At some point, I'm moving towards a passport.
00:12:08.780 And next thing you know, I'm a new entity.
00:12:10.760 You know, just to give a personal example, I'll show you my driver's license after this.
00:12:18.380 My driver's license says my address, my name, and a completely different town that I live in.
00:12:24.480 Oh.
00:12:25.020 I can now go and use that ID with that incorrect information and get a speeding ticket.
00:12:30.160 Let's say in Saskatchewan.
00:12:31.840 Yeah, yeah.
00:12:32.520 Now they can't find me with the speeding ticket I didn't pay.
00:12:36.920 Let's say, for example, this is not a real story.
00:12:40.760 and now my license becomes suspended the real owner because they finally found an address that
00:12:47.640 matches and it's me right the real guy the real guy not the fake guy but the real guy wasn't in
00:12:54.600 the car that was speeding right right okay got it and the actual address and the license he gave
00:12:59.820 was official enough and officiated and scanned but it had a different address on it and one
00:13:06.180 different uh number on the date of uh birth date but unless you create some heinous crime at that
00:13:13.280 point no one really cares enough to go research how it happened no they kind of chalk it up write
00:13:18.300 it off the guy who got the ticket says it wasn't him they don't know why they say it's an accident
00:13:22.940 no one ever falls meanwhile that other identity is floating living an entire and you've said this
00:13:27.760 for like well for years quite frankly that there's probably you know tens of millions of people out
00:13:34.100 there that just are using uh id that does i i had an incident where somebody hit my car the gentleman
00:13:40.660 gave me his passport a picture of his passport on his passport it had one name i've heard that prince
00:13:46.580 and i thought well your your name is prince and he said no no no my name is but people call me
00:13:52.020 prince you know but this is your passport how did you get that very odd right yeah yeah sorry prince
00:13:59.860 i identified you too aptly sorry if i did that but that is something i think that really needs
00:14:06.420 to watch and you're following something that stunned me yeah uh on on the highways here in
00:14:11.460 canada yeah last thing i just wanted to throw it up for for the viewers again and and talk about a
00:14:16.260 little bit it's an ontario thing it's opp released it the other day so midsummer numbers came out on
00:14:21.780 motorcycle deaths and you know we're at 34 the the highest number in the last 20 years has been 57
00:14:29.140 so it looks like we may be on pace to kind of hit that number um you know i know people you
00:14:35.300 know come from other countries i know people get uh better rigs i know all this good stuff
00:14:40.820 you know it's a lot of people right okay when you're when you're seeing 60 people killed a
00:14:45.700 year on motorcycles in the province i think you got to kind of wake up and the amount of trucks
00:14:51.620 on the highway oh my goodness the amount of new drivers on our highways over the last five to ten
00:14:57.220 years and the increase in motorcycles for a lot of reasons uh you're right if i actually i can
00:15:02.820 imagine coming from south asia to canada and the last vehicle i owned was a motorcycle it's what
00:15:07.300 i'm comfortable on no it's it's cheap gas efficient quite frankly that's all i can afford i got to get
00:15:12.340 to work good on insurance yeah i get it i get all the reasons why you might want one and as a young
00:15:17.060 person it's cool yeah right but are we are we equipped based on the amount of traffic and the
00:15:23.380 flow of traffic and the construction and the way our city's set up oh we're not familiar really with
00:15:28.260 motorcycles i mean if we had snowmobiles in the winter on the highway we might be better with it
00:15:32.500 better off we're a winter nation right so we are so just the new people arriving in canada you got
00:15:37.300 to please number one like don't cut lanes take your time i i know you want to get to work i know
00:15:43.860 we want to cut cross but but you know these are horrific accidents and uh this week the last couple
00:15:49.700 weeks there's been quite a few and they're in the news all the time so and not just in this province
00:15:54.720 across the country uh you know you've you and i have both driven coast to coast several times in
00:16:00.740 this one single summer yeah you see a lot of motorcycles out there doing some crazy stuff
00:16:05.780 that it's easy to do on a motorcycle but that split second can devastate your life take your
00:16:13.220 life devastate your family uh it is uh that's a good uh public service announcement really well
00:16:20.020 all right well there's a look at crime and uh we keep an eye on it all the time i will recommend
00:16:25.220 i did an episode last week with uh our our friend sam cooper uh i'll recommend if you're following
00:16:32.320 the crime beat in canada that's a good episode wow all right thanks for joining us thanks mike