True Patriot Love - Crime Tourism Is Exploding Across Canada

00:00:00.000 And for what Canadians aren't realizing, people are coming from other countries around the world

00:00:05.140 and coming in as tourists or whatever, committing the crimes and gathering their money and whatnot and leaving.

00:00:17.820 An international theft ring busted in Ontario, the largest drug seizure Manitoba has seen in its history.

00:00:25.360 Owen Sound, a restaurant owner, is killed over an outstanding restaurant bill

00:00:29.660 and Cricket Canada corruption.

00:00:32.520 And one story that will blow your mind if you're flying anywhere today with Air Canada.

00:00:37.480 This is your crime update, tplmedia.ca.

00:00:40.800 I'm Mike.

00:00:41.420 Joining me as always, Jim Lang for your crime update.

00:00:44.860 Thanks for taking the time. 1.00

00:00:45.600 You handsome bastard. 1.00

00:00:46.500 How you doing? 1.00

00:00:46.980 Come on, Jimmy.

00:00:47.980 You know, you get me every time with that.

00:00:50.320 All right, let's start it off.

00:00:51.540 Project Jet Setter, the international theft ring busted in Ontario.

00:00:54.880 I'll give you the rundown on this.

00:00:56.420 Durham Regional Police announced the results of Project Jet Setter,

00:00:59.300 a years-long investigation in their international organized crime network

00:01:03.720 accused of targeting homes, businesses, and individuals across Ontario.

00:01:08.460 Police arrested 46 suspects, laid more than 1,500 charges,

00:01:13.340 and linked the group to over 200 criminal incidents

00:01:15.760 with losses exceeding $2.6 million.

00:01:18.380 Investigators allege some suspects entered Canada

00:01:21.340 illegally before participating in coordinated theft operations this is known as crime uh what's

00:01:29.660 it what are they tourism crime tourism crime tourism and it was a great um term by the

00:01:35.180 investigative detectives mike and and for what canadians aren't realizing people are coming from

00:01:40.140 other countries around the world um and coming in as tourists or whatever committing the crimes

00:01:47.580 in gathering their money and whatever whatnot and leaving and so for durham regional police

00:01:53.020 which is east of the toronto area to arrest all these people and you saw the photos and realized

00:01:58.220 all 47 were we're visitors to the country right it is it is shocking as a canadian that it's come to

00:02:04.940 this a huge number of romanians as well this looks like it might have been coordinated uh through a

00:02:09.660 romanian uh crime syndicate of some sort yeah but certainly uh a coordinated effort now here i do

00:02:16.460 have a question about this and i i'm sure there's a good reason right okay it says this has been a

00:02:22.540 years long several years long investigation uh 46 suspects 200 criminal incidents 2.6 million

00:02:32.140 1500 charges a lot got done before we started laying charges here and before this investigation

00:02:40.140 yeah led to the arrests of some people why do you think that is well we are used to watching

00:02:47.740 law and order and other police and television crime shows why isn't it like that jim and that's

00:02:52.060 the problem if you talk to officers um they have to really assemble a massive mountain of evidence

00:03:00.220 and you know information even before they approach the crown right and say we're going to lay charges

00:03:06.140 because well look they'll say they'll just get it thrown out by the judge so the canadian courts

00:03:11.340 work different than american courts and when they're bringing charges like this they will

00:03:15.140 have a mountain of evidence and information and you know counterfeit things they've gotten stolen

00:03:21.400 goods and guns and drugs and whatnot so i think that's part of it is it takes time for the

00:03:26.780 investigative officers to get all the information all the evidence that they need to go to the crown

00:03:31.260 to go to the judge to get the warrants to make the arrest good god we love to take time in

00:03:36.320 canada we love to take time we sure do everything that we do takes time now the other thing that's

00:03:42.740 okay so maybe that needs to change that's my thought by the time 2.6 million dollars worth

00:03:48.360 of damage is being done maybe maybe we need to change how much we take to the crown whatever

00:03:55.260 the process is it just seems to me a lot of damage got done before arrests were made yeah and it's

00:04:00.380 it's so hard because often that you come home you're in your house you were away what not you're

00:04:06.540 like hey something's gone so you like you report it to the local police that this this and this

00:04:10.780 was stolen but can you imagine being the cops okay we've got 35 people and the crown going we need

00:04:17.100 more evidence we got 41 we need more evidence i mean the police must be endlessly frustrated with

00:04:22.940 this process too well then then the the frustration is compounded that okay all these people were

00:04:28.540 arrested that what are the odds they're all convicted in canadian criminal court system

00:04:34.860 right now if they are convicted what's going to actually put them behind bars if it's their first

00:04:38.460 conviction in canada or is a judge going to go yes you you're you've been charged you've been

00:04:43.020 convicted you came here in a tourist visa we're going to only put you in jail this long and then

00:04:47.420 send you home what is the process now and that's i think this is a a new game for everyone because

00:04:53.580 this kind of thing criminal tourism was a pretty rare thing and now it's really growing yeah the

00:04:59.180 fact that people would come to canada to visit commit all these crimes and go home yeah was

00:05:04.140 something we just never heard of so now the courts and the judges and the crown and the laws have to

00:05:09.500 almost catch up to what's going on i mean it seems so prevalent now that i feel like i could go online

00:05:15.020 and book a crime my wife and i could go online pick a country and book a crime tour what's the

00:05:20.380 purpose of your visit mr wixon oh jewel thief yeah yeah crying we're cat burglars oh stamp here you

00:05:26.460 go welcome to my country yeah uh the largest drug seizure in manitoba history listen to this jim

00:05:32.620 winnipeg police revealed details of a massive interprovincial drug investigation that resulted

00:05:37.740 in 33 arrests and what authorities describe as the largest illicit drug seizure in manitoba history

00:05:44.140 officers seized cocaine methamphetamine fentanyl cash vehicles and other assets connected to the

00:05:50.460 organized trafficking networks uh the operation involved multiple police agencies across several

00:05:56.780 provinces you know in an earlier show you and i talked about this trans canada highway

00:06:02.140 and this just reeks of you know interprovincial i mean it's okay well think about it think about

00:06:12.220 the thousands of tractor trailers on our highways in canada every day it's not possible to have

00:06:19.180 enough police officers to stop and search every single one okay so here's the other thing manitoba

00:06:24.780 is what we in the biz of uh logistics did you know that i'm in the business i do now what we in the

00:06:31.580 biz of logistics call a hub absolutely is a major yeah it is a major logistics hub the double tractor

00:06:37.580 trailers in manitoba absolutely and so it is especially from winnipeg brandon going into

00:06:43.900 ontario going to the west going down to minnesota it is a hugely busy area the uh freight rail

00:06:48.760 traffic that goes yeah you know trains uh two three kilometers long it seems as we were driving

00:06:53.780 along you think that's a lot of containers there what's in those so it's not surprising to me but

00:06:59.780 when you hear some of the things that they seized cocaine likely not produced in canada methamphetamine

00:07:05.460 may be produced in canada fentanyl definitely not you know uh well maybe yeah produced here but

00:07:12.460 definitely some of those elements are coming from one of the ports right well and but as sam cooper

00:07:18.400 who's been on our tpl media before has pointed out that is part of the sticking point for a lot

00:07:23.660 of the american politicians in the current u.s administration is the amount of fentanyl in canada

00:07:28.440 is it a problem or not that is a big number a large weight of fentanyl and fentanyl has become

00:07:34.680 such a lethal dangerous drug that's being mixed in by people buying black market molly and cocaine

00:07:42.600 and pot and hash all of a sudden they don't realize there's fentanyl in it and there's an

00:07:46.360 accidental overdose did jim just say molly i forgot he was a raver he's a raver from a way back

00:07:56.760 so you know i think that this is a big deal for manitoba but once again i'm not surprised having

00:08:02.200 just driven through that province how much actual logistics and how much it is sort of the center

00:08:07.960 it's staggering well until you're out there you can't realize going both ways and all the highways

00:08:13.720 how many big trucks and like you say they're almost like a tractor trailer trains with multiple

00:08:19.000 trailers yeah because it's so flat out there it goes on forever uh so this is uh very interesting

00:08:25.480 and you know what i thought was also very encouraging was that the police said that this

00:08:31.400 is not the end of it that this is the head on the mushroom they're going after the root system yes

00:08:37.160 of where this came from and because they have multiple agencies at multiple levels they have

00:08:42.680 rcmp local police uh local provincial police in each of these cases this is uh they're going to

00:08:49.560 use this moment to go and root out the source now think about the strain and policing now so you

00:08:55.640 could be in the brandon manitoba police force or you know saskatoon or chicotomy quebec or

00:09:03.960 you name the location in canada and all of a sudden you have a department that has to focus

00:09:09.560 on stuff like this yeah which probably never happened before you have to think about these

00:09:13.720 containers how do they for a future episode if you work at a container company or container yard

00:09:20.280 or know something about this you're a future guest because i'd like to know how we handle

00:09:24.760 the security of this you know because i've seen the container shipyard in halifax and it's big but

00:09:30.360 the one in vancouver is three times as big and there's thousands of them and how in my hometown

00:09:37.560 there are probably 150 000 containers in various yards how could they search every one i want to

00:09:44.040 know i would love to know yeah every once in a while the the uh container yard near my home

00:09:49.560 there's a fire is that right yeah every once in a while there's a container fire over there and i

00:09:54.600 I think to myself, hmm, what started that fire?

00:09:58.580 Here's a very, from the world of weird crime stories, also very sad,

00:10:04.420 Owen Sound restaurant owner killing moves towards sentencing.

00:10:08.300 So I don't know if you remember this story,

00:10:11.040 but three men were extradited from Scotland

00:10:12.820 and they've admitted their roles in the death of Owen Sound restaurant owner,

00:10:17.280 Sharif Rahman, following a dispute over an unpaid restaurant bill.

00:10:22.360 the case attracted international attention after the suspects fled canada and were later arrested

00:10:27.820 overseas sentencing uh hearings are scheduled for july of this year i i'm i'm struggling believing

00:10:34.600 they killed the guy over a disputed bill in a restaurant there must be something else to this

00:10:39.920 that we don't know i mean that seems pretty extreme i don't agree with the bill and you

00:10:44.600 kill the guy okay let me paint a scenario okay please do i don't want to pay my bill you owe me

00:10:51.060 fifteen hundred dollars you haven't paid your bill in over a month that's a lot of espressos i know 0.99

00:10:55.320 jim but the fight goes back and forth maybe somebody gets shoved somebody falls down they

00:11:00.860 hit their head that's by the way be careful when you get into a physical altercation you could

00:11:05.100 easily kill somebody absolutely it's called manslaughter all they need to do is hit their 0.98

00:11:09.800 head and your life is over uh keep your hands to yourself if possible so on that note i wonder if

00:11:17.260 that's what it was a struggle where these guys bullied the guy ended up beating him up beat him

00:11:22.340 to death so i yeah i don't know if a bill would be the reason for that it is hard to imagine

00:11:29.060 it the bottom line is even though these gentlemen are going to be sentenced it's such a needless

00:11:35.060 death it's such a sad it's a sad story really i mean it really is and and three people were

00:11:41.340 involved and think about the lives of these guys they got on a plane and they went to scotland to

00:11:47.000 escape being convicted and now they're back yeah i know uh just an all-around shame you know i just

00:11:54.600 think this goes to a bigger question like that the average canadian struggles when they read these

00:11:59.400 stories you know why what would like i think canadians in general are very law-abiding people

00:12:04.440 you hear stories who've lived 30 40 50 years never had a parking ticket never had a speeding ticket

00:12:09.960 i've never you know never been in trouble with the law and i think that's more common than not

00:12:14.200 in this country yeah i think most people are just trying to be good citizens exactly and do the

00:12:18.440 right thing uh this was a a brutal example of the opposite that society can put upon us uh

00:12:25.880 makes me think let's just get separate checks in the future

00:12:30.360 this is wild cricket canada corruption scandal deepens the suspension of cricket canada

00:12:35.400 uh has intensified scrutiny of allegations involving match fixing financial misconduct

00:12:42.600 intimidation of players and alleged links to organized crime investigative reporting suggests

00:12:48.760 criminal organizations may have exerted influence over part of the sports administration

00:12:53.400 the scandal is now one of the biggest sports crime stories in canada this year and match fixing which

00:12:59.000 is a huge problem because of gambling the the explosion of the gambling apps and online

00:13:05.480 gambling and people don't realize it but betting on cricket is huge around the world yeah and big

00:13:10.360 money and it's such a problem that the blue jays were going to have you know they have junior jays

00:13:16.840 day oh yeah they were going to have a day to celebrate kicking cricket canada and they have

00:13:21.160 to cancel it because of the allegations and everything involved with this story and cricket

00:13:26.120 is a sport that's growing at a rapid pace across the country there are now high school cricket

00:13:31.640 teams in a lot of schools in the country as well with the increase of the south asian community

00:13:36.120 absolutely in Canada it's the sport uh that uh that we we got as a bonus right so and and some

00:13:42.600 of the the Canadian now Canadian cricket players the quality they're they're world class yeah it's

00:13:48.600 fantastic yeah it and you can see it there's now cricket fields yeah it's an engaging uh part of

00:13:54.000 our communities uh this is sad it is sad how did they come back from this Jim you're from the

00:13:58.920 sports world is there is there a road back to they just wipe the organization and begin again

00:14:04.020 yes and there is precedent to that there were obviously a lot of problems with hockey canada

00:14:08.980 a few years ago and they got rid of everybody and hired a whole new board of directors basically

00:14:14.580 everyone was brand new and that's the only way to erase the stain of this is you'd have to appoint

00:14:20.420 a new ceo cricket canada hire a whole new board and organization there have no connections to the

00:14:26.900 people involved with this here's the problem anything that involves uh membership anything

00:14:32.500 that involves sponsorship once you paint it with a negative brush like this it's tough to get the

00:14:38.420 sponsors back it's tough to get the membership back the other thing that might happen is you

00:14:42.900 might find that there's an opposing not opposing but an adjacent group that is now going to flourish

00:14:48.740 that was waiting for this to happen because it sounds to me like the corruption here was

00:14:55.380 widely noted see this is a big concern mike in general not just with cricket canada

00:15:00.660 but with the so the advent of all the gambling apps and legalized gambling basically across the

00:15:08.440 world where you can bet on everything and then take it to the next level with poly market

00:15:11.800 you know will mark carney cut the ribbon at the detroit gordy hell bridge what did you take on

00:15:16.940 the i took the under because he's out of country oh okay but uh but the point is so so when you

00:15:22.620 have that kind of money and you can gamble in everything and anything it leads to corruption

00:15:27.620 how could it not that eventually someone's going to try to you know skirt the rules for their own

00:15:32.580 financial good the odds makers benefit the most so if that's the controller of this then the sport

00:15:39.100 will never have a fair shake and it's you're finding like oh okay instead of scoring 30 runs

00:15:45.200 this cricket match you just score 20 and then pull a hamstring or have a back tweak right then you

00:15:50.520 leave the match when someone's bet heavy that and all of a sudden oh you know steve just won all

00:15:55.880 this money it's highly suspicious yeah yeah what a coincidence i didn't even know you could pull

00:16:00.540 that muscle playing cricket so okay right and uh but you know but it's a it's a great sport it's

00:16:06.080 a global sport um you know if you think about all the countries involved they're all over the world

00:16:11.340 it's growing in canada and it's it it tarnishes what is a great growing sport in the country and

00:16:17.000 a lot of good people involved by some bad apples it's always the case speaking of bad apples wow

00:16:22.620 this just in air canada you know i've often said about air canada their motto is

00:16:30.940 we're not happy so you're not happy but it's not true that's not their motto it's just something

00:16:38.160 i invented in my head they have uh first of all they've been targeted over the last uh several

00:16:44.040 months over how they're handling customers yes and now this story uh from the world of crime

00:16:51.000 The other one that I think came up was what was going on at the airport with smuggling.

00:16:55.940 That was a recent one.

00:16:59.060 And now this, Air Canada.

00:17:01.440 Oh, my God.

00:17:02.720 So Peel Regional Police, which serves Mississauga, Brampton, Caledon,

00:17:07.120 and they're the police force that oversee the Pearson Airport.

00:17:10.720 They charged a former Air Canada aircraft captain,

00:17:16.540 accusing the pilot of over 900 flights without a valid license.

00:17:21.000 saying like a movie script from catch me if you can with Leonardo DiCaprio um that's flew over

00:17:27.660 17 years of the valid license as well as submitting forged credentials to his employer and regulatory

00:17:33.480 bodies part of Project Icarus a probe into a complex fraud investigation related to the

00:17:39.060 former 59 year old airline captain from Barrie Ontario who worked for Air Canada since 98 as a

00:17:46.560 pilot became captain in 09 and alleged he had been misrepresenting credentials to his employer

00:17:52.140 air Canada and regulatory officials through fraudulent documents and the press release

00:17:57.060 released this morning by appeal regional police indicate he earned um nearly three million dollars

00:18:02.640 in salary uh during that time it has shocked people it's made headlines around the world

00:18:07.500 now air Canada issuing a statement saying that the investigation on a monetary penalty it said

00:18:13.980 uh is related to this type of certification but they're saying safety was not compromised by this

00:18:20.140 incident now that's what they're seeing but it does give pause to people who stress about flying

00:18:25.260 to think that someone flew that many flights for that long and did not have the proper credentials

00:18:32.540 i have to throw my bottle of water before i get on a plane absolutely i i that's what i think

00:18:40.060 that's how is how is this less safe than that but mike that's what has everyone so confused that

00:18:45.660 they're so strict about what like like a little nail file that's it it's got to be thrown out

00:18:50.700 right i mean don't worry our pilots may or may not be licensed but you can't i mean this to me is

00:18:58.780 absolutely abhorrent that there is and now please i want every pilot checked every single pilot

00:19:06.380 don't you think that's going on by air canada right now coast to coast apparently not but but

00:19:11.580 so i mean maybe if if they're in the scramble mode but what what i think is going to happen is that

00:19:16.300 they're going to they're in cover their ass mode right now who else do we have that's not really

00:19:20.380 licensed well i think that's the question number one i mean for all canadians who fly air canada

00:19:25.660 on a regular basis every day yeah who else is this happened to so people ask me why did you drive

00:19:31.420 across the country i'll tell you why i have a license that's right uh air canada saying that

00:19:36.700 their pilots go through recurrent training every six months to validate their validate their flying

00:19:42.220 competency like their regulations including an in-flight check with certified transport canada

00:19:47.900 check pilot every 12 months so this pilot did is every six and 12 months and all the different

00:19:53.020 things but the paperwork was fraudulent and i think a lot of people are wondering how could

00:19:59.180 at air canada not catch that for so long okay so this guy's a pretty good pilot liar what about

00:20:05.580 the next liar who's not a great pilot no no no i think that if you know what i honestly believe

00:20:11.360 this airline needs to be closed air canada right now until every pilot is validated

00:20:19.560 by the proper authorities they should not be able to operate another plane until every pilot is

00:20:25.600 vetted so transport canada and the federal government do have that power they could tell

00:20:30.860 that we're doing a ground stop of all air canada flights till every place every pilot's credentials

00:20:36.320 and co-pilot's credentials are fully vetted and authorized and confirmed i demand it what as a

00:20:42.860 canadian no i absolutely demand it mike i i think that's a question from the prime minister's office

00:20:48.680 all the way down to the simplest person getting on a plane how could you not question right now

00:20:54.140 does my pilot have actual credentials a proper license that isn't fraudulent to fly this plane

00:21:00.560 i'm sorry if you booked a flight on air canada i demand they be shut down until every pilot is

00:21:06.360 vetted well you know they shut down airlines for a lot of different reasons that the boeing the

00:21:11.840 737 max there were two accidents fatal accidents every 737 max around the world was grounded right

00:21:18.760 until the software was fixed look at spirit airlines they had to shut it down because there

00:21:22.240 too many cigarette burns in the seats that was for you nick but i'm you know it's come to think

00:21:29.280 about when you bring that up like they have the right to do that said wait a sec no more

00:21:33.280 how could they do anything but that how why would air canada not of their own volition

00:21:38.720 say okay we have to shut our doors we've made an an incredibly horrible mistake not just once

00:21:46.400 900 times 17 years if you make 900 errors of this variety you should not be allowed to operate an

00:21:56.000 airline in this country i am sorry 900 violations because i see pilots going through airports in

00:22:01.360 canada all the time and they have a series of credentials on a lanyard yeah even the cabin crew

00:22:07.280 and they check it i mean they check our information before like so he was able to

00:22:12.400 check it they scanned it and it like first of all how did they he fake it to the point that he got

00:22:17.600 on this is this story has got a lot of legs we've not heard the last of it but there will be a lot

00:22:23.120 of questions will air canada now check the credentials of every single pilot and co-pilot

00:22:28.880 in the airline in the coming weeks to basically to placate canadians to a layer of fears that

00:22:35.840 actually we have a proper pilot flying the plane reach out to your politician reach out to uh the

00:22:41.280 the prime minister's office demand that they shut down this airline until they check every pilot

00:22:45.840 that's my advice yeah and if i mean i are they going to make a movie this is leonardo dicaprio

00:22:52.240 not going to play have a have a canadian accent i the one thing i will say is this guy really did

00:22:57.600 pull off a long-term scam like it's unbelievable you know i have to check my podcast credentials

00:23:02.720 i don't think they're up to date wait a second that's your crime update uh tplmedia.ca we do

00:23:08.160 this every week says here right on the shirt player it is and tplmedia.ca local look for

00:23:14.000 your hometown that's right do this locally now thanks jim i appreciate this looking for reliable

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True Patriot Love - June 10, 2026

Crime Tourism Is Exploding Across Canada

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