Jason Miller
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Man charged with selling chemical linked to suicides appears in Brampton court
Kenneth Law’s case was adjourned to May 9. The suspect’s estranged younger brother told the Star he found the allegations ‘shocking’. → Read More
Mississauga man hired hitman to shoot his ex-partner with a crossbow, Crown says
Roger Jaggernauth’s “intention was to get a hitman and when his friend turned him down, he got someone else,” the prosecutor said. → Read More
Life in prison for GTA man who killed his wife, then fled to Mexico for nearly 14 years
Henry Morales, 47, spent nearly 14 years in Mexico prior to his arrest, including remarrying, having more children, and forging a career as an English teacher. → Read More
Peel paramedic was drinking and ranting about his ‘mission’ on night of fatal crash, court hears
Allegedly impaired driver Aaron Dobbs is facing a second trial in the death of 27-year-old Shawn Harpur. → Read More
‘Fundamentally unfair’: Judges slam cost and delays with ‘essential’ anti-Black racism reports
“This situation is a Catch-22,” said Judge Brenda M. Green, noting that presentence reports meant to recognize the impact of anti-Black racism can cost defendants thousands and take months to prepare. → Read More
No jail time for driver who killed 19-year-old girlfriend in Mississauga street race
“While I regard this as a very close call, I find it is not necessary to remove the offender from society,” Brampton Justice Bruce Durno said. → Read More
Mississauga man was lured to fatal ambush in texts with exotic dancer, Crown says
The Crown alleges that dancer Melnee Christian, Brandon Drakes-Simon, Jason Williams and Justin Malcolm were all communicating with each other the night of 26-year-old Mario Ibrahim’s murder. → Read More
Decision looms on an interim injunction to save trees from being felled at Osgoode Hall
A judge heard arguments Saturday from Metrolinx, calling for the trees’ removal, and from Ontario’s Law Society that says the trees lend heritage value → Read More
Seven-year sentence for attempted murder of pregnant ex-girlfriend ‘manifestly unfit,’ Court of Appeal rules
Corey Cunningham will instead serve 15 years for attempted murder, the province’s highest court ruled, effectively doubling the sentence initially handed out last April. → Read More
Brothers guilty in Mississauga road rage beating officer called one of ‘the most violent things he had ever seen’
The Corhamzic brothers applied “vicious force to a helpless and unconscious” victim over a minor fender-bender, the judge found. → Read More
Man sentenced to 3 years in hit-and-run death of Port Credit volunteer
In her poignant letter to the court, Penny Cousard’s mother questioned “how can a human being leave another human being on the side of the road to die by themselves? My heart is broken because I wasn’t there to hold her as she died.” → Read More
Peel police part of international operation dismantling Hive ransomware group
The group targeted at least 71 Canadian businesses and organizations since the fall of 2021. → Read More
‘Get away from me’: Brampton man pleads guilty to murdering his sons, staging their bodies as if nothing had happened
For hours, Edwin Bastidas, 55, conducted an elaborate charade to hide his sons’ murders from their mother. That night, she made her boys a pasta dinner and packed their school lunches. → Read More
Hamilton man sentenced for role in shooting death of Brampton student at New Year’s Eve party
“For decades, appellate courts have noted the need for deterrent sentences for gun offences in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA),” a Brampton judge notes, adding that the ongoing spate of gun violence clearly illustrates “the message is not getting through.” → Read More
Man convicted of manslaughter in 17-year-old Ontario girl’s fentanyl overdose death
“A reasonable person would have foreseen the risks of providing fentanyl,” the judge ruled. → Read More
Police Tasering teen with autism ‘a very big failure’ of the system, says distraught father
Mississauga family left traumatized by police incident doubt the effectiveness of the programs set up to help police deal with people in crisis. → Read More
Mississauga man found guilty of plotting mother’s murder over $1 million insurance policy
Eric Lu guilty in the April 8, 2015 stabbing death of Mississauga spa operator Ming-Chien (Teresa) Hsin gets mandatory 25 years prison sentence → Read More
Driver sentenced to six years in 160 km/h Brampton crash that killed three and ‘destroyed two families’
Driver Paul Manzon, 49, has also been barred from driving for an additional seven years after his release. → Read More
Brutal murder of Mississauga spa owner was son’s attempt to finish the job, Crown says
Eric Lu was the “mastermind” behind a successful plot to kill his mother Ming-Chien (Teresa) Hsin, 59, Crown attorney Paul Renwick said in closing remarks at Lu’s murder trial on Tuesday. → Read More
No evidence Mississauga son orchestrated mom’s murder, defence says
Nothing in the evidence “resembles a plan. Nothing that indicates payments were made,” defence lawyer Robb MacDonald said. “There is virtually no motive that the Crown can point to here.” → Read More