True Patriot Love - Canada’s Crime System Is Breaking in Plain Sight

00:00:00.000 this is a this is a person who is actually driving along uh and he gets pulled over he gets pulled

00:00:07.520 over and the police officer says to him you do know that you have no front tire he's so he seems

00:00:14.800 surprised then the police officer proceeds to tell him you do know that your car is fully on fire

00:00:25.760 all right it is time for crime not that we're going to commit it but we're certainly going to

00:00:29.680 talk about it with a look on what uh has happened this week and over the last couple of days in

00:00:34.720 particular across canada with crime paul micucci joining me thanks i appreciate this hey mike and

00:00:40.080 the crypto king is back canada's crypto king or ontario's crypto king uh aiden platerski yeah 27

00:00:48.320 year old he's not a kid but he looks he does look like one but you know okay can i go on a path for

00:00:54.960 minute right when you're 27 you're not a kid no right you've given up your kid card right so acting

00:01:01.200 like an irresponsible kid you know think about it 27 i was married right same working same uh

00:01:09.840 you know at that point i was uh building things i had a kid yeah exactly like you're not a kid 0.78

00:01:15.680 no like so don't don't like you know i'm irresponsible so he's from germ region i think

00:01:20.080 people remember him okay he was charged with fraud over 5 000. now here's the crazy thing mike which

00:01:26.080 it just blows my mind away every time i hear this this case right this guy this man not kid

00:01:33.920 he actually was able to convince people through his crypto scheme to give him 41.5 million dollars

00:01:41.600 right right then then then he goes on this binge you know and spends 16 million of it before they

00:01:46.880 what do you spend the money on like well okay so it's not lamborghini mclaren a lamborghini

00:01:53.760 he went on luxurious trips uh on a private jet uh exotic car collection uh 45 000 a month

00:02:02.960 uh waterfront mansion in burlington and apparently you just told me before the show the cheapest

00:02:08.800 watch or sorry the most expensive watch that he alleges to have is 600 000 and he and he was

00:02:14.320 acting like that wasn't a lot what he said they said to him you have watches worth over a million

00:02:19.040 and he said no i don't have any watch worth over 600 000. right so here's the interesting part you

00:02:24.400 know he he now is crying poor he says he's a pauper he cannot come up with the money um he's even made

00:02:30.960 the the uh statements that he can't afford to pay his lawyer to file the uh adjournment application

00:02:41.760 and to go to trial uh so he says he's going to come up with it his lawyer has come in

00:02:46.880 but he doesn't have representation in court right now no he should have twice now without

00:02:50.800 representation well and late so he's showing up late and he had one good look at one point he

00:02:58.160 asked the judge if he could pick him up so because he's having a hard time getting there now so

00:03:04.240 you know he's he's not making it to court he can't seem now for those of you who don't remember

00:03:09.360 this is the man and i'm not going to call him a gentleman i'm just going to call him a man

00:03:14.080 who uh was kidnapped uh in 22. i remember i don't know if you remember this story mike but

00:03:21.360 the group one of the groups that had actually invested i i don't know how 300 000 into this

00:03:26.880 scheme yeah to have three hundred thousand dollars to throw into this scheme is crazy

00:03:32.080 well it just shows you how crypto uh crazy everybody became for a short time right bitcoin

00:03:37.040 did its thing and everybody was like ah so they held him for three days they they burnt him they

00:03:42.720 waterboarded him waterboarding is when they lay it backward and pour the water over a towel over

00:03:47.120 your head yeah they even like fake executed them they fake executed them to try to get him i think

00:03:52.800 his parents to give them the 300 000 um but it didn't work and and they let him go and then you 0.96

00:03:58.720 know that ended up being another trial so whatever what a ridiculous set of events this is all turned

00:04:04.240 into but now he's back and what i found mike here's the crazy thing they're talking about

00:04:10.560 if he gets convicted he's going to do 14 years that's okay so now let's do real math on that

00:04:17.520 14 years cut it in half seven divided by three well honestly he'll he'll do three years probably

00:04:26.160 in minimum security yeah he'll get probation for another three years with good behavior he'll be

00:04:31.440 on to his next scam before christmas of that following year yeah he's going to be walking

00:04:35.840 around in his early 30s he'll be back on the street 41 million i think he took in total was

00:04:40.400 it 41 41 and a half million dollars okay so if all he got was five million sacked away someplace

00:04:48.000 in seven years he's set for life hey disappears into another country another place reconvenes

00:04:54.400 takes the five million starts again yeah and they're also a horrible example of how to prosecute

00:05:00.320 someone who's committed such a like this is a very heinous a crime like it's really bad oh he

00:05:05.600 destroyed people's lives there was one lady saying that she put money aside for her kids to go to

00:05:10.880 university uh her grandkids to go to university and she invested it here she'll never see that

00:05:15.920 money again and now she has nothing to commit to her kids i mean that sounds like just one small

00:05:21.040 scenario but that is somebody's life savings thrown away right and he's not even going to

00:05:26.880 pay a lawyer because quite frankly i i think the sentence isn't long enough for him to really pay

00:05:32.560 attention to it and be concerned so he's just like whatever the max sentence is if it's 14 max right

00:05:38.080 i'll take the 14. why would i pay a lawyer hundreds of thousands of dollars when i can just

00:05:43.120 take my time take my time be out and moving again and yeah it's just not setting a great example the

00:05:49.840 judge isn't doing a great and i think facing charges of fraud over 5 000 and laundering

00:05:54.880 proceeds of crime yeah it seems like it actually seems like light charges it seems like there's a

00:06:01.200 bunch of charges missing here to be honest with you yeah but that's what they've got them on

00:06:05.920 and so the other thing is maybe i'm wrong but any kid who could sorry man and young man styling

00:06:14.320 young man with some bucks in his pocket they can get on a private jet is a flight risk and good

00:06:19.040 news for him bail's not even going to be an issue for him yeah he's going to be able to go home

00:06:24.080 between the two and uh i if he's not a flight risk i don't care how poor he says he is 41 million

00:06:30.720 dollars does not just vanish into gummy bears and flights and if they can recoup these vehicles

00:06:38.000 that's still just a very small portion of the money yeah i think well the i think grant thornton

00:06:42.480 is doing the work on it i think they've got his assets for whatever they could get their hands on

00:06:47.120 but you know who knows mike hey the other one i wanted to bring up we got which is a very similar

00:06:52.320 one and it again down you know not trying to uh you know young people get on young people but

00:06:58.720 i picked up one in vaughn so and this is uh vaughn ontario for for all of you across canada my

00:07:04.720 hometown yeah so this is this is a person who is actually driving along uh and he gets pulled over

00:07:13.360 he gets pulled over and the police officer says to him you do know that you have no front tire

00:07:19.440 he's so he seems surprised then the police officer proceeds to tell him you do know that your car is

00:07:26.000 fully on fire right oh my god so the burning rim apparently he drove so long on the rim that

00:07:34.580 actually the sparks from the rim caught the motor on fire the motor caught on fire and it advanced

00:07:40.580 to the back of the car and his back seat was even on fire so he was driving with his motor and his

00:07:45.420 backseat on fire this this courageous police officer pulled him over and explained to him

00:07:51.500 he was so drunk so then it was interesting so they charged him with impaired but it's interesting

00:07:57.860 in the york region so this was i thought this was crazy i thought impaired driving had gone down

00:08:04.720 so apparently impaired driving keeps going up uh and they're close to 2 000 offenses a year in

00:08:12.020 impaired driving in york region in york region right god so they're doing they're averaging

00:08:17.220 about three impaired drivers uh at least a day and a weekday and then on weekends apparently it bumps

00:08:23.620 up so like this is i mean how drunk are you that your car you're you're you're driving an inferno

00:08:31.380 yeah and you have to be pulled over the other i'm really shocked the guy pulled over yeah he noticed

00:08:35.940 no no well yeah after the police got him yeah but this is a this is a crazy thing apparently

00:08:40.820 in york region which i don't know you've driven in york region because you know constantly yeah

00:08:45.460 it's it's a it's a it's a nightmare because everyone's just blowing through stop signs

00:08:49.300 oh it's a dumpster fire yeah it's a dumpster fire between the trucks and the uh fancy cars driving

00:08:55.540 willy-nilly it's pretty wild there in this region they get 4 000 emergency calls reporting drunk

00:09:02.580 driving a day right 4 000 calls oh sorry no sorry a year a year okay so they get

00:09:10.740 four thousand a year that's still an outrageous so number of people you figure every day you know

00:09:17.460 again like that's insane yeah so so four thousand people are picking up their phone who have spotted

00:09:24.180 someone drunk driving and are calling and calling a drunk driver in york region a year right now

00:09:30.020 you know what i would love to know what the uh cannabis to alcohol ratio is forget about that

00:09:35.140 people start eating cannabis or whatever and they they hit the road yeah i think that you know that's

00:09:39.940 probably a combination and then a combination the two you ever see somebody get a little drunk and

00:09:43.780 then smoke a joint they literally become incapacitated so i think people don't know

00:09:49.940 anymore what the mix the right mix of their libation or or drug is and combining the two

00:09:58.420 they think it's okay to hit the road and go mad if anyone gets it you know and i've uh because on

00:10:03.700 my charity side of my businesses i spend time with the mad people and i got to tell you if

00:10:08.820 you ever get a chance to go to one of the meetings uh especially the annual meeting of mad you should

00:10:14.820 go and you'll be bawling your eyes out i remember they they uh i went to one because they're one of

00:10:21.940 our charities and quite frankly um i sat through the annual meeting and by the end of it like

00:10:27.940 you're just fully in tears seeing the impacts of all these families of the what had happened from

00:10:33.940 drunk drivers so you know i think that should be jim and i have a jim lang who's on with us

00:10:38.740 We have a friend who lost a one of our close friends, our mutual close friend, lost a family member to drunk driving.

00:10:46.940 It changed the course of the family's lives forever.

00:10:51.180 Yeah. You know, they never they never come back.

00:10:53.800 Yeah. It is worth noting that this is kind of a big deal again.

00:10:59.160 And I'd be curious to see York Region and Peel now are sharing airspace with helicopters.

00:11:05.380 And that seems to be, and I see them quite regularly, both of them,

00:11:09.780 the York Region and the Peel, out there doing their thing.

00:11:13.360 And mainly it seems to be on the roads.

00:11:15.820 So hopefully that will start to reign it in.

00:11:20.180 This is interesting.

00:11:21.020 Do you mind if I just touch on something quickly?

00:11:22.860 Sure.

00:11:23.160 I remember back quite some time ago, I can't even remember what year it was,

00:11:26.520 and I'll take a look here quickly, but Barry and Honey Sherman,

00:11:30.540 the people who owned Apotex, were murdered in their home.

00:11:34.540 finally determined that it was murdered murdered and hung yeah terrible by their swimming pool

00:11:40.060 remember that story that was a terrible story a terrible ending to their lives and uh they were

00:11:45.100 quite the uh quite the people about town they were real socialites and uh real canadian business uh

00:11:51.660 leaders well um here we are almost nine years since the homicide it took place can you believe

00:11:57.580 that nine years ago this was and it'll make you ask a question well how much further ahead are

00:12:03.020 we well brandon price the detective sergeant was um recently promoted the kind of guy who headed up

00:12:11.340 this investigation and what it kind of focused on in my mind was we took a look at this and saw what

00:12:17.820 kind of effort they put into it they work on it every day it's nine years later and we're no

00:12:22.300 further ahead here's something interesting every year 250 murders in canada go unsolved there's

00:12:31.020 3400 current registered cold cases for murder in canada oh yeah it's a very the the solve rate on

00:12:38.940 murders is very low it's like um i'm not going to be correct in this but it's in the small percent

00:12:45.740 like single digits well it it was disturbing to my mind because you think murder is such a big

00:12:51.740 crime that it does get solved almost every time and somebody does get held accountable

00:12:56.060 uh the the sherman case is very interesting to me because it kind of underscores that nine years can

00:13:02.540 go by even if you're one of the most prominent canadians no matter how much money you have

00:13:07.100 you fall into that investigation process and every day it just becomes a little tougher to

00:13:12.700 find that murderer yeah well they did get i remember a few years ago mike they did get some

00:13:17.420 video on a person uh moving along the sidewalks adjacent to the home yeah i watched that video

00:13:22.860 footage it looks like me in my winter coat i mean there was really it was not me by the way yeah no

00:13:28.940 but it was so unidentifiable it just seemed to me i don't know how they made that uh yeah yeah just

00:13:34.940 the horrific uh incident quite frankly so heart-wrenching for the family and the family's

00:13:40.780 been the family it got muddy from remember that one got muddy from the very beginning and the

00:13:45.660 family hired detectives and then the police were there and um there was disputes between certain

00:13:50.940 family members not the immediate but the brother and things like that that was and they had estate

00:13:56.220 issues and there's a lot going on there just and it got muddier and muddier and unfortunately

00:14:01.020 the outcome you know no one ever found out to this point and now uh somebody new managing

00:14:06.700 the case i wonder if it will uh it will breathe new life into the investigation or just take it

00:14:10.940 further away yeah mike you know and one of the ones i just wanted to bring up again which is

00:14:16.620 just a terrible situation on bail and bail reform so this week um you know there uh it was upheld

00:14:26.620 um you know and they decided uh the ruling in ontario not to have cash bail uh so it's been

00:14:35.180 suspended and the reason for it is that they felt that it created a two-tier system between the

00:14:39.660 haves and the have-nots in crime yeah you know in two-tier uh criminal or two-till prosecution

00:14:48.220 um you know people just don't on the left do not like right but i'm asking and i keep maintaining

00:14:56.140 and when i talk to people give me a solution tell me what the options are so i get this and i get

00:15:03.580 there's two sides to this i again i i would like someone to come on because when i look at this

00:15:09.340 and this isn't going away so the number of articles that get written on this is going to keep just

00:15:14.300 advancing and advancing so this is a situation that at some point someone's going to have to

00:15:19.100 step forward make a decision a judge a ruling that's different than the one that exists today

00:15:25.260 because we know what we're doing today doesn't work so how do we get a judge to actually rein

00:15:31.180 this in and use the system properly the bail system i mean if we've rejected it now we need

00:15:37.100 to show cause that it needs to be put into place that we need this reform we've screamed for forever

00:15:43.420 and now we just watch it walk away it's walked away so the feds handed it down to the provinces

00:15:49.420 the provinces are now walking away on it okay what's the solution here guys like it's gotta

00:15:55.980 be there's gotta be calmer heads go ahead okay well we see this though i'm gonna just leave crime

00:16:01.500 for one second okay this is one of those things we see the feds do we're gonna make a sweeping

00:16:06.380 change here's an mou what we're going to make a sweeping change here provinces deal with this

00:16:13.180 command yeah at the federal level they just they really did create a problem for the court systems

00:16:20.700 in each of the provinces in my mind they have to adapt a very serious change to one of the most

00:16:27.100 primary elements of our justice system bail right assurity well and then uh you know appointed

00:16:36.300 judges that are appointed by you know different parties have different views so you're going to

00:16:41.480 get you know a more liberal view you're going to get a more conservative view you're going to get

00:16:44.760 a middle-of-the-road view so now it becomes uh you know luck of the draw who you get who makes

00:16:50.300 the ruling so quite frank but we know it's not working so we can't keep going we can't keep

00:16:54.980 giving it to judges to make crazy judgments that it gets denied and then we're back to where we are

00:17:00.400 and then people go well free again you know we're dealing with this shooting which is the

00:17:06.500 consulate shooting that's the one that's bringing it to light because we have everything going on

00:17:10.440 with the tariffs in the united states now and you know the conflict with the tariffs so well also

00:17:16.260 you think one consulate shooting that killed an officer you know this the other shooting should

00:17:23.280 have a huge focus on it that this is the net result was that this needs to be treated like

00:17:29.620 net result could have been that and instead it's not it's not it's just basically you know in this

00:17:36.260 case um they didn't have the money to actually make the any uh cash bail yep or that's what they

00:17:42.660 they said and quite frankly and then the judge just allowed them to go free right so again we're

00:17:48.180 back in these these cases where we're going to keep letting people out without cash bail and not 0.96

00:17:54.500 finding a way to detain people who are violent offenders well not only that but this is foreign

00:17:59.540 interference yeah well so layer that on top you think there'd be an even more reasons to do this 0.76

00:18:06.180 but we're not doing it again if they can put a hand a gun in the hand of a kid and get them to

00:18:09.780 shoot what is it that difficult to get them out of the country or get rid of them entirely exactly

00:18:15.540 so mike here's the thing i'm i'm asking i'm saying anyone you know on the on the side that actually

00:18:21.620 with any of the associations that did the legal challenge against bail reform in ontario

00:18:27.700 if you have options please give us a call we're going to reach out to you again we'd like you to

00:18:33.140 come on the show or is it just you don't want to do it is it just is is that your so because

00:18:38.660 that's fine if if we don't hear from you what we're going to assume is you just want it to go

00:18:43.700 back to the way it is now and and so okay so why did we scream for the last 12 years that we needed

00:18:50.820 bail reform so and the same group by the way the same group's opposing it now i've noticed

00:18:56.660 and i you know i'd ask for politicians to come on the show quite i'm going to reach it to john

00:19:00.580 carpe i know and see i don't know that his opinion is going to be going to be this right

00:19:05.220 the politicians just they lob it right it's like tennis right they they lob it over the net well

00:19:10.500 this is my thing it's it's a talking to the judges it's a talking point you know we need it but we

00:19:15.300 don't you know there needs to be from the federal and the provinces uh perspective there needs to be

00:19:21.940 some meeting consensus uh you know rule building something we create here that we can adjust

00:19:28.980 uh we can come out with some outcomes on this across canada and i know the feds punting it

00:19:34.020 back to the provinces it's not going to work you just saw it didn't work so quite frankly

00:19:38.820 that solution so i think the provinces should punt it back i feel they should lob it back into

00:19:44.420 the feds yeah hey you lobbed it to me i tried it didn't work boom back to you what do you want to

00:19:50.020 do now legislate yeah create laws that make me have to do this exactly uh okay listen i i don't

00:19:56.580 want to take us off that course because it's important you know the other thing is talk to

00:20:02.420 your local politicians about this because i'd love to know how much they really know about bail reform

00:20:08.100 and what it would do to your community paul this is pretty serious you ever heard of uh kedgewick

00:20:12.660 new brunswick yeah well they put themselves on the map again okay they're asking the public

00:20:19.220 for help in uh st quentin the rcmp there is asking the public for help in locating a um

00:20:27.220 cabin believed to have been stolen from northern new brunswick what no not the contents not the

00:20:32.740 windows not the doors the entire cabin was stolen oh yeah oh so put on a trailer and carted away and

00:20:40.340 relocated we're not sure how it got away well it must have been sledded off somehow right uh

00:20:46.660 it was near the end of june okay so maybe people were just avoiding uh the black flies and not

00:20:51.380 playing paying attention to the cabin uh if you want to if you happen to see this metal roof

00:20:56.580 board and batten siding and they're asking anyone who's seen it uh or knows where it is to contact

00:21:01.780 the police um it uh came across the wire and the media this is a rare occasion the media responded

00:21:09.300 with really and the police had to put another one out yeah uh so look new brunswick they have their

00:21:15.780 crime problems but they're not looking for stolen tvs they're not looking for uh a stolen truck

00:21:20.900 they're looking for the entire cabin so if you happen to be driving around and you see

00:21:24.580 a cabin that looks suspicious in the wrong place maybe just let the local rcmp know

00:21:29.860 you know paul you got to keep an eye on your cabin always yeah there's one there's a difference

00:21:34.740 between home invasion and home theft put your apple pot on your cabin please good idea everybody

00:21:42.340 put your marker on all right thanks paul i appreciate this we do this every week make

00:21:46.420 sure you join us next week for our report on crime

True Patriot Love - September 15, 2026

Canada’s Crime System Is Breaking in Plain Sight

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