True Patriot Love - June 17, 2026


[Sneek Peek] Justice Across Canada - TPL Media Crime Update

Hosted by
Shara Micucci Mike Wixson
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Zahra Jabi Fentanyl Mike Jane
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Length

9 minutes

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170.71

Word count

1,701

Sentence count

27


Summary

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On the heels of the shooting at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto, the Globe and Mail's Mike McLendon and Paul Mccartan take a deep dive into the details of the investigation into the death of Constable Mark Pinizzato and the two suspects in the shooting.

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00:00:00.000 Fentanyl is on the move, $150,000 worth of it at a time in just the average person's car.
00:00:07.460 It's not bad.
00:00:09.640 That's $150,000 worth of fentanyl and crack cocaine.
00:00:13.680 Just moving around with somebody willy-nilly enough to fall asleep in their car.
00:00:18.800 What's going on at the major levels?
00:00:20.540 all right thanks for joining us tplmedia.ca and i'll recommend that you check out tplmedia.ca
00:00:32.360 slash local because the likelihood is that we have a local version of what we're doing right here
00:00:37.420 in your hometown today once again a check on crime across the country and joining me to do that
00:00:44.780 paul micucci thanks for the time paul thank you mike uh all right let's uh let's take a look at
00:00:49.980 our rundown uh of course the uh the talk of canada and most of the world right now uh is the tragic
00:00:57.660 shooting of uh mark pinizzato uh here in toronto an officer etf uh shot in the neck uh responding
00:01:05.500 to a call yes of a shooting at the u.s consulate by by interesting so the the men implicated in this
00:01:14.780 are two 19-year-olds, one in the hospital and one still on the loose, right?
00:01:18.940 Yeah.
00:01:19.120 Nicholas Bennett and Zara Jabi, I think, is still on the...
00:01:23.580 Yeah, Nicholas Bennett in hospital right now.
00:01:25.600 He's on the loose.
00:01:26.700 So a lot of questions outstanding here, Mike.
00:01:30.240 You know, a lot of people are asking over the weekend as you're moving around,
00:01:34.360 people are saying, who are these two men who did the shooting at the consulate?
00:01:39.720 Where did they get the guns?
00:01:41.260 you know where are that what are they tied to internationally is now another question do they
00:01:46.900 have a family are they uh locals it's interesting nicholas bennett and zari zara jabi how did they
00:01:55.580 meet each other yeah that is a great question where do they come in connection with each other
00:02:00.680 how do they befriend each other why the u.s consulate where that's the other thing people
00:02:06.120 are asking like how does the u.s constant play into any of this i i've yet to meet a lot of 19
00:02:12.080 year olds who have much interest in the u.s consulate and now there's also ties of course
00:02:16.900 to uh international terror uh potentially through hezbollah which is i read that i read that by the
00:02:23.780 fbi so the fbi says that they've intersected a bunch of phone messages um arrested uh one of
00:02:30.620 the leaders actually in the i think it's in the u.s right taking uh basically claiming uh that they
00:02:37.460 were behind the shooting of the u.s consulate so now it's kind of so now is this this one's really
00:02:42.940 spinning all over the place and while we have somebody at large we're still not fully up to
00:02:47.800 speed on what the motive was here and if there was uh well and you pointed out earlier this is an
00:02:53.680 interesting time in toronto we have an international sporting affair going on that is drawing people
00:03:00.000 from around the world that is already a security concern and now we've got somebody shooting at the
00:03:04.800 u.s consulate that might be associated allegedly potentially associated with hezbollah funded out
00:03:11.060 of iran right and and murdering a constable uh with a beautiful family we also we were all
00:03:17.840 heartbroken over the weekend you know condolences to them but i think this deserves now a deeper
00:03:24.280 dive more questions need to be answered and we need to go back and and i think have a real
00:03:32.280 introspective look at what this is and going back to where do they get the weapons why do they have
00:03:39.000 the weapons how do they know each other they steep they keep stealing different cars so when i was
00:03:44.280 coming in here the team did some research and they basically seemed to be um tied to uh a couple
00:03:52.200 shootings previously installed in cars uh one is at a jujitsu gym yeah this nicholas bennett
00:03:59.560 not a good guy by the looks of it yeah march 25th shooting occurs in an apartment building near
00:04:04.680 eglinton avenue that wasn't that was one of them although nobody was shot yeah they found that uh
00:04:10.600 the shots had been fired and 19 year old nicholas bennett was later charged with firearms offenses
00:04:15.320 now i mentioned to you on the way in mike i've seen so these emergency task force crews
00:04:22.760 um just unbelievable how they they meet up and usually meet up in a designated location they
00:04:31.100 so they pick a point a meetup point um and they actually all come together they drive in in cars
00:04:37.040 and vehicles they get out their let's call them their swat fans show up yep they gear up they put
00:04:43.420 on all their garb i've had them actually one of my businesses i've had them use the business several
00:04:47.780 times i've been there a couple times when they're there um it's very you know i'm always looking at
00:04:52.040 the cameras and all of a sudden all these uh big armored vehicles show up that's an amazing yeah
00:04:56.880 they get out they put on all their uh all their gear bulletproof all their guns everything and
00:05:03.240 then they disappear they go to do their uh raids or and then they come back and uh they uh i guess
00:05:12.020 they they unpack they get back in their cars and they go back to work i think back to their normal
00:05:17.300 gigs it's really amazing to watch what they do and no they're an amazing uh skill set um the opp
00:05:23.780 has a training center and a swap facility i guess tactical facility near us uh where i live and uh
00:05:31.060 what what they're capable of doing is is quite remarkable and they are uh the guys you put right
00:05:36.580 in the line of fire in these scenarios uh on a for unfortunately but in this case you know the
00:05:42.900 terrible thing is how they knew they were coming or where they were prepared or whatever happened
00:05:49.860 whatever weapons they had you know hadn't in their uh possession they were firing and they he got hit
00:05:57.700 and you know that those are the questions i think we have to ask at this point the
00:06:01.860 who you know who are they why are they there that's the thing is i'm starting in my mind i'm
00:06:08.480 like two 19 year olds don't we don't really know how they know each other why are they together in
00:06:15.400 an apartment in north york well here's the thinking of the fbi when do they connect so an fbi criminal
00:06:23.820 complaint alleges that uh in a record telephone recorded telephone call al-sadi uh claimed
00:06:29.700 responsibility for the toronto u.s consulate shooting on behalf of an iranian link group
00:06:33.920 called uh herkat ashab al yamin al islamia sorry if i've said that wrong but terrorist group uh
00:06:43.320 canadian investigators begin probing whether the local shooters were hired by or tied to this
00:06:49.940 broader network that took responsibility for this now whether it's just them taking responsibility
00:06:55.800 That happens too sometimes.
00:06:57.320 It does?
00:06:57.880 Yeah.
00:06:58.500 But you're right.
00:06:59.400 What 19-year-olds just want to take a shot at the consulate?
00:07:02.880 The same guys who shot at a Brazilian jiu-jitsu gym for some reason
00:07:08.340 and took part in a sort of low-rent housing facility shooting at another time.
00:07:16.800 They sound like thugs, but now there's this tie to terrorism.
00:07:21.060 Is this terrorism finding and scouting these kind of people out,
00:07:25.000 these young misguided youth that want this kind of lifestyle and saying to them hey here's some
00:07:30.120 money we'll put it in your pocket now go this time go shoot at the consulate you'll probably get away
00:07:34.660 with it too well this is the why like really you know the who what when where why i think now why
00:07:40.960 is why has this happened that's the question on people's mind and and you know given there's such
00:07:46.440 a tragedy occurred i think we need we need to get to the bottom of it and if it is happening then
00:07:52.540 why is it happening and where where specifically is it happening in the country those are the
00:07:57.920 things that i think we need to talk about and address uh to your point you know we're going
00:08:02.700 through right now you know one of the bigger soccer events the world will see i think it
00:08:08.360 actually is ranked in north america is the number one uh they're saying it's the number one uh
00:08:14.380 populated viewed event in the world but we should be making sure we're understanding
00:08:19.920 what's happening in the places they're coming to.
00:08:23.720 The response to Pinesaro being killed
00:08:26.560 was a procession through the streets of Toronto
00:08:28.640 by most of the emergency services on duty at that time,
00:08:34.440 drawing some criticism that they might have left security at FIFA
00:08:39.520 a little unattended at that moment in that area.
00:08:44.100 More on that, I'm sure, will come up.
00:08:46.540 This is an interesting story,
00:08:49.020 only in the sense that there's two of them in Ontario right now.
00:08:51.980 We've had a major series of firearms, drug, and cash seizures in Ontario.
00:08:58.720 Toronto, what began as a driving well-disqualified investigation
00:09:02.360 of the Jane and Finch area resulted in the seizure of firearms,
00:09:05.960 fraudulent license plates, illegal drugs, and over 170 rounds of ammunition,
00:09:11.380 $180,000 in cash.
00:09:13.700 You know, traveling around with $180,000 worth of cash in your car,
00:09:19.020 seems like a well that's like a very that's loose change by the look of it if you're if you're rolling
00:09:25.720 around in the car and it's in your glove compartment and obviously there's more where
00:09:29.600 that came from so they got that uh suspect on numerous weapons and trafficking charges then
00:09:34.820 in thunder bay on june 5th officers found a man and this is wild we uh i was actually making my
00:09:41.140 way through the country uh up in that area at the time and this came up it was so uh at first blush
00:09:47.480 it's kind of funny but listen to this on june 5th officers found a man asleep behind the wheel
00:09:52.200 with the vehicle running being there another time in my life many years ago