True Patriot Love - Murder on Zoom, AI Deepfakes & a Crypto Kidnapping

00:00:00.000 all right time for your tpl crime roundup for the week mike wickson paul micucci with you

00:00:11.040 paul thanks for uh sitting in no problem always do uh no shortage of wacky crimes and uh frankly

00:00:19.120 new stuff on the docket we've talked a lot about organized crime that seems to be you know related

00:00:24.400 to drugs and trafficking and money laundering and all that a lot over the last little while

00:00:29.280 my goodness we have a fresh crop of new crimes and weird stuff that has uh transpired over the last

00:00:36.080 week uh i can start us off if you want uh in montreal uh arrest in the montreal killing uh

00:00:43.360 witnessed during a work uh zoom call i don't know if you recall that i saw that leila ben

00:00:48.880 salem uh 45 was killed in her downtown montreal home on september 22nd while participating in a

00:00:56.400 virtual call with a colleague uh officers responding to a welfare check around 3 25 pm

00:01:02.240 found her unresponsive in an apartment on renny levec boulevard uh police have now arrested

00:01:07.760 yousef musau uh muasau i'm sorry if i've said it wrong musawi uh 33 in ville marie on october 15th

00:01:17.920 and said he was scheduled to appear in court on october 16th to face first degree murder charges

00:01:23.360 uh here's an important development police explicitly say this was not an intimate partner

00:01:29.680 violence case and they've withheld the alleged motive uh for the mo i guess for the moment until

00:01:35.280 they get to court yeah and uh reveal this this is horrifying terrifying horrifying uh absolutely

00:01:42.720 imagine being on a call you know for those of you you know it's interesting my guys i was thinking

00:01:47.840 about this i don't know we've all had these calls where someone calls with bad news and they're

00:01:52.880 panicking or they're you know they're scared or they're sad but you'd be watching it yeah it just

00:02:00.400 would be it would it would alter your life i had a friend this was a it's a terrible story but it

00:02:06.160 was a murder she was an emergency room nurse and she was in uh in the emergency room her and and

00:02:14.320 the surgeon uh and another nurse one of the doctors came anesthesius came in and actually

00:02:22.640 stabbed the other nurse to death while she was in the in the emergency room and it took her years

00:02:28.880 it took her years to readjust like it was the nightmares and the horrifying absolutely yeah

00:02:34.480 no the you're right the impact on the viewer for this uh the tragedy is what it is a horrifying

00:02:40.960 tragedy um but you're right that to be a witness to this by the way 19th homicide in montreal in

00:02:49.040 2026 uh vancouver school investigation involving alleged ai images of students now before you and i

00:02:56.960 uh came in to do this uh i had the discussion with you and i thought oh my god if you had

00:03:02.560 given me ai in high school i would have been a real problem i think uh vancouver police and

00:03:09.600 the school board are investigating reports of inappropriate online behavior involving grade 12

00:03:15.680 students at sir winston churchill secondary reporting describes allegations that some

00:03:20.480 male students created ai generated images of female classmates classmates allegedly sexual

00:03:27.280 in nature those details remain allegations under investigation the school board has stepped in

00:03:32.400 saying that they take the matter seriously of course they do but what is now much to the point

00:03:38.800 that we had a moment ago the you know parents have expressed frustration because they have very little

00:03:45.920 little information coming out of course the school board and the police don't want to share these

00:03:50.800 images but the central issue is the harm that manipulated images can cause students i mean

00:03:57.200 these are images that never happened in locations that never happened featuring real people in these

00:04:04.160 scenarios the impact of that is beyond bullying the impact of that has ramifications we're just

00:04:11.680 starting to understand and the school board is going to endeavor to take a deeper look at what

00:04:17.280 this means for the school society a very quick favor before we continue a large percentage of

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00:04:50.960 show so this is an interesting and a little bit scary really scary um i sat in a seminar about

00:04:58.640 two weeks ago where the gentleman had three uh person three ai personalities oh so he had a

00:05:08.080 personal one a business one and he had kind of just a middle like i don't know what he used it

00:05:13.360 for but anyways he had three and basically all of his personal life was dumped into the ai avatar

00:05:21.760 chat box in one all his business life was in the third one and the middle one was kind of i guess

00:05:28.800 the bumper one but anyways yeah and he he actually gave a lecture on it for about 40 minutes and he

00:05:34.320 actually showed how he used it and he continually taped himself to put his personality into these

00:05:40.320 avatars and into these this chat wow yeah and i was like wow this is great i would never think

00:05:47.440 that anyone would ever do this but he was totally comfortable and confident to do it and use it and

00:05:52.480 uh to the point where you know his business solutions were actually coming from this uh

00:05:57.760 ai avatar chat not from his own mind no he was actually he would go and give it the problem

00:06:03.520 and he'd let it go off and come back and ruminate the business strategy that would he'd give to his

00:06:07.840 clients wow so what's he necessary for at this point i didn't know i didn't ask i guess the

00:06:14.000 input of the yeah but it does it does scare me well you know what it is scary because if you

00:06:19.040 think about it the link between what happened in this school and what could happen later on

00:06:24.560 to uh you know assume somebody's identity who you're in class with every day to put them out

00:06:29.360 into the world as the person they are not yeah well this is just the beginning yeah well once

00:06:35.200 they start you know in class they probably were taping voice uh behaviors everything else so then

00:06:40.000 they started to replicate right uh this is uh a toronto homicide investigation leads uh police

00:06:46.080 to a halifax arrest christopher gordon 34 died after police were called to a disturbance in an

00:06:51.680 apartment building near flemington road and blossom field drive on october 4th and police

00:06:58.240 arrived to find at 9 18. they found him with traumatic injuries and attempted life-saving

00:07:05.040 measures had to be uh taken but he was pronounced dead at the scene rcmp arrested leroy uh chicken

00:07:12.880 noira at he's 31 in halifax on october 8th he was returned to toronto and charged with first

00:07:18.720 degree murder and obstructing justice by leaving town and that arrest date uh corrects an earlier

00:07:24.880 brief where police announced the update on the 15th but the arrest happened a week earlier a

00:07:30.240 A second suspect, Cody Rudifo, 32 of Timmins, remains wanted on a Canada-wide first-degree murder warrant.

00:07:38.680 Police consider him armed and dangerous.

00:07:41.440 Do not approach.

00:07:42.200 Call 911.

00:07:44.180 Wow, we are seeing so many arrests outside of province for pretty heinous crimes.

00:07:49.840 Just a couple of weeks ago, two Hells Angels picked up in, I believe it was Manitoba or Saskatchewan,

00:07:57.580 as they made their way across to make their escape across town they were picked up another

00:08:03.140 investigation leading to halifax it's almost like the police connectivity is getting better by the

00:08:10.500 day on these things oh yeah i hope so i hope so as technology advances that is one of the benefits

00:08:16.440 of technology and we were just talking about ai you know whether it be medical whether it be

00:08:21.040 crime it should be start to become easier to correlate and uh translate crimes across the

00:08:27.820 country and figure out you know who and where they're going yeah yeah it's we we're seeing the

00:08:34.680 results of it i think yeah uh the coming months good for them and years will uh show uh you had

00:08:39.440 one on the docket as well paul oh a couple so the interesting one that the one that i thought was

00:08:45.920 most interesting and i felt terrible because i know this group was second harvest yeah which is

00:08:51.120 the food bank yeah um they had some uh two or i think it was two people break into their yard

00:08:59.440 and take the catalytic converters from seven of their trucks leaving them immobilized yeah immobilized

00:09:06.000 you know the worst time of year to do it and around thanksgiving and quite frankly it was just

00:09:10.800 terrible story what a grinch move yeah what a seriously like check your check your head like

00:09:16.880 not only a bad criminal move but it tore a horrifically immoral thing to do no i mean

00:09:23.520 if crime is a knock against your karma yeah wow this is a knock against your karma with steroids

00:09:28.880 on it it is yeah it is and so uh the nice part about this story is that uh shout out to the

00:09:35.520 aurora importing guys who stepped up uh put in sixty thousand dollars got the trucks uh fixed

00:09:41.920 nice back on the road so it you know there's a good ending to a bad story but still you know the

00:09:47.200 fact that someone would actually cut through the fence go in cut the catalytic converters out and

00:09:53.520 they caught the guy yeah uh they're looking for one they caught one caught one the other guy at

00:09:58.000 large the other one mike just before we get off but it was an interesting one uh there was a sentencing

00:10:03.120 so uh was given to a a man who actually stole a jeep with no uh roof on it out in surrey bc

00:10:14.240 that video is insane it was and so there and he got quite a beat down like he sure did but you

00:10:20.160 know mike it was interesting because uh the judge actually came in for sensing and actually uh said

00:10:26.000 it's only 60 days because of the beating he had and he got to use time served so he's only got

00:10:30.960 45 days left but uh you know after you've just watched that uh i think he'll think twice before

00:10:36.800 he steals someone's uh jeep with running keys in it it's it's why now there by the way there's been

00:10:42.720 criticism yes oh yeah an off-duty uh officer left his car running and of course uh had to make uh

00:10:49.040 chase with the police to find the vehicle but there's been some criticism because a lot of

00:10:52.720 police attended this one stolen vehicle oh yeah four right away and yeah several thereafter you

00:10:59.120 don't you know i don't know about you but uh usually when people you know that i know have

00:11:03.920 called about stolen vehicles they don't get a lot of reception or they don't get a lot of response

00:11:08.560 my daughter's vehicle was stolen in montreal and by the time she got the police on the phone

00:11:12.640 they said well when did this happen and she said i think in the last hour and they went hour it's

00:11:17.360 gone oh okay so you know to get some response like this okay uh i wish i was kidding about

00:11:26.560 that that was the response hours seem so short yeah okay uh now the other one that caught everybody's

00:11:33.200 attention i think this week was the military members that were charged in the crypto kidnapping

00:11:38.640 and stolen ammunition case uh seven people have been arrested 82 charges and three of them say

00:11:45.840 uh canadian armed forces members yeah i saw that we we hit on it quickly last time we spoke but

00:11:51.840 we really didn't uh delve in or we didn't know much about it i don't think we knew what was up

00:11:55.600 up here i mean i i recall in our last episode saying to you what's going on here paul like

00:12:01.120 what's and now we're starting to see it uh be revealed a little bit uh that a cryptocurrency

00:12:07.760 exchange owner was abducted at gunpoint handcuffed and assaulted a suspect allegedly sought access

00:12:15.200 to crypto assets and business security systems and the victim was released after threats and warning

00:12:21.360 not to contact police which apparently did uh three military members charged uh fernando 22

00:12:30.960 moreo 29 and miley 24 all three members of the canadian armed forces have been charged

00:12:36.960 and uh allegations have not been proven in court all accused are presumed innocent i will say that

00:12:41.760 however they have been uh they have certain um i guess

00:12:50.080 there's some rules being applied to them being on the base now because one of the things that

00:12:54.800 was part of the problem was 2700 rounds of military ammunition used yeah you know this

00:13:01.280 sound this actually sounds like uh like the movie i'm trying to remember the name of it

00:13:05.360 it was with dwayne johnson and mark walberg and they were they kidnapped a guy in miami

00:13:11.120 it's actually a true story it'll come to me in a minute but and just over trying to get ransom

00:13:16.400 ransom yeah they were they were as personal trainers so this kind of reminds me one of those

00:13:21.120 stories where you know i think we're going to come we're going to find out there's something else

00:13:25.680 going on here behind the scenes that they caught wind of well you raised a good point when we were

00:13:29.600 talking yesterday you know we said crypto on your end what do you think you use crypto for

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00:13:50.860 all right back to the show yeah so are these guys trying to cover something up are they trying to

00:13:56.700 extort somebody who's doing something did they actually get away with any of this money we don't

00:14:01.740 know how do they know he has crypto you know it's not people walking around bragging about their

00:14:07.980 crypto wealth maybe I don't know you know that's an interesting this is this is an interesting story

00:14:13.120 definitely there's more to come on this one this looks like the documentaries I watch on Netflix

00:14:17.560 where they organize the theft of a painting or something and everybody I would love to know what

00:14:21.980 everybody's roles were in this who took the ammunition did they actually get any funds

00:14:25.720 well seven people arrested so there's that so seven people concocted a scheme to do this and

00:14:31.640 and it's interesting and then how come it didn't come on like it didn't get executed i'm not sure

00:14:38.280 so that's kind of the you know a bunch of stories that's a great point so you had the victim was

00:14:44.280 released after threats and warning not to contact police it says they sought they sought access to

00:14:52.380 crypto assets and business security systems the victim was released after threats and a warning

00:14:57.320 not to contact police so did they blow this in the end did they use did they get caught with

00:15:03.940 2700 plus rounds 25 of them identified as stolen from canadian armed forces four firearms two of

00:15:12.100 them 3d printed two silencers 10 over capacity magazines pardon me bless you and 10 uh gps

00:15:21.500 trackers handguns and drugs did they get caught with all of that blow up their careers and their

00:15:28.700 lives and not execute the deal we don't know because it's crypto now maybe it was harder to

00:15:34.620 you know i'm always i always say this in a lot of shows when we talk about crypto maybe it was hard

00:15:39.580 for them to sell the crypto that's a good point how do you so maybe they got into martin i don't

00:15:44.540 know what the i don't know what the uh amount was but maybe they thought it would be easier to actually

00:15:50.060 uh move the crypto uh maybe and they got into and they're like oh this is hard i'm really going to

00:15:55.980 end up with ten thousand dollars today i would love so we have to keep them for nine years to

00:16:00.780 get the hundred thousand dollars i wonder if they got in and they're like yeah we got a million

00:16:04.220 dollars in the crypto okay buddy sell it he's a gunpoint sell it and he's like i can't i can't

00:16:09.420 if i could i would have done that yeah why do you think i'm still working you'd be taking cash out

00:16:13.580 of my head out of my house and not uh security codes yeah i'm thinking maybe right uh chief

00:16:18.540 myron dimcu said what started as an abduction investigation quickly became a much bigger story

00:16:24.940 uh police are working with the military police everybody uh in on the same thing uh the same

00:16:32.380 investigation i'm dying to know what this was this and i want the rights to the story if i can to

00:16:39.100 make it a netflix special because yeah something was going on here by the way it happened in the

00:16:43.820 bayview and finch area in toronto and the ammunition was taken from the uh the toronto base

00:16:50.380 so now they're talking about actually increasing the security on which i always thought they had

00:16:56.380 quite frankly i thought they had tight controls on ammunition already because

00:17:00.780 they have a minute i didn't even know we had ammunition the last i heard we were taking

00:17:04.940 blanks to international affairs didn't we go uh where was it latvia did we show up in latvia with

00:17:10.220 blanks a half million blanks yeah no no i'm with you but i always thought there were really strict

00:17:14.460 controls and i always heard that they had to check their arms in yeah upon leaving the base

00:17:20.620 uh wherever they were and so that you know i guess maybe a set of those rules weren't being followed

00:17:26.620 or maybe they went they were lax or you know that that is interesting because we don't really know

00:17:32.540 much about the level and security access that these three people have you know what i want to

00:17:38.860 do i want to get somebody in to talk to us about 3d printing weapons how do we stop this i don't

00:17:45.580 know if you can right i mean there has to be certain materials required to make it sturdy

00:17:50.460 enough to actually be a weapon that you can fire it's a pretty simple design but they're doing 3d

00:17:56.540 homes now mike oh yeah we're doing yeah they're doing three like literally like you're you're

00:18:00.940 seeing guys on the west coast actually it's funny uh you know uh blair the my friend from the east

00:18:06.780 coast yeah he called me about six months ago he goes i want you to get on a call with the guy he's

00:18:11.260 doing 3d homes and i'm like 3d homes what do you mean 3d and he actually was serious i got a

00:18:16.140 business plan to invest in the guy i didn't do it but he was actually seriously doing this 3d

00:18:21.100 printing homes yeah piece by piece and assembling them apparently there's a he has a huge warehouse

00:18:26.300 he has all these big printers and capabilities and off he goes oh that's fantastic yeah it's

00:18:31.580 the panels everything coming that's the good news side of it yeah the bad news side of it

00:18:36.380 is apparently you need a much smaller printer to do a handgun and it's possible yeah and more

00:18:41.180 possible we see it being used often uh i think that there's some dangers involved in the materials

00:18:47.820 so you could you know end up but as a threat item for certain uh would you trust yourself to fire a

00:18:54.380 3d gun no no i wouldn't no no no because you know a backfire of a gun is lethal no no you're you're

00:19:00.140 done yeah yeah a piece of that 3d gun comes off toward your head and you are definitely done or

00:19:05.820 towards your chest your brain yeah yeah uh anyway this is a wild one uh military members charged 0.85

00:19:11.580 in crypto kidnapping a story i think that we will keep an eye on thanks there's your crime update

00:19:17.180 We'll see you next time.

True Patriot Love - October 20, 2026

Murder on Zoom, AI Deepfakes & a Crypto Kidnapping

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