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Former Toronto drug cops sentenced in corruption case

Posted By: Siobhan Morris · 1/4/2013 2:11:00 PM

5 former drug cops with Toronto Police have been sentenced for their part in a corruption case.

The men have be sentenced to 45 days of house arrest for trying to cover up the illegal search of a drug dealer's apartment in 1998.  The Crown wanted 3 years in lockup.

The group was found guilty by a jury in June, 3 of the ex-cops were also found guilty of perjury.  But they were all acquitted of more serious charges like conspiracy, extortion, theft & assault.

While the Superior Court judge says the men committed a extremely serious breach of trust, she acknowledged the impact of the legal saga on the officers & their families has been catastrophic.

The fight spanned a decade, many appeals, with more than $12-million in legal fees piling up.

The "Team 3" members sentenced Friday are Steven Correia, Nebojsa Maodus, Joseph Miched, Raymond Pollard & John Schertzer.

Correia remains a constable with Toronto Police, suspended with pay.

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  1. Brandon posted on 01/04/2013 02:22 PM
    "Correia remains a constable with Toronto Police, suspended with pay."

    I'm sorry what? Convicted of a crime like this, and still acting as a police officer, getting money for sitting at home on his ass? Give me a break.
    1. james posted on 01/04/2013 02:39 PM
      @Brandon Truer words........Unbelievable! Nice work if you can get it eh? I guess you need to be a corrupt cop with a strong union behind you.
  2. chris Smith posted on 01/04/2013 02:49 PM
    "While the Superior Court judge says the men committed a extremely serious breach of trust, she acknowledged the impact of the legal saga on the officers & their families has been catastrophic."

    What about the catastrophic effect on the people and families that have been railroaded by crooked cops? These crimes involving breach of trust eat away at the fabric of society due to the lost of trust in the community. House arrest? What a joke!
    1. CoffeeCon posted on 01/07/2013 05:21 PM
      @chris Smith '... the men committed a extremely serious breach of trust, well, the one that we caught them for, anyway.'

      Where's the money? where's the financial recovery investigation? crooked top to bottom. crooked crooked crooked. They well know where the money can come from to pay for budget shortfalls.
  3. EM posted on 01/04/2013 10:31 PM
    And I can bet you they are all white, had they been non-white you would have heard how Jerry Agar spits blood and fire of how we have a problem in black community and how we all must raise up and fight crime in our selves. Just on record, a people supposed to enforce the law in our society were found guilty by a jury and sentenced to a 45 day house arrest. Now here are two very troubling issues you need to realize {a} It took us 12 million dollars to get this conviction and a sentence of 45 days house arrest. {2} The reason they were not sent to jail is because the legal saga on the officers and their families has been catastrophic. Yes you see the rest of society that get sentenced sensibly has members that are not bothered by the legal saga. Unbelievable. Now watch another one, as Jerry Agar yaks about Canada is soft on crime, this is not going to see a second in his program. That is the hypocrisy in this society. I will repeat what my wife said after she had a very tough time getting an insurance company pay her car, she said in Africa we are corrupt but we are straight corrupt. In Western countries they are never corrupt until when you become a politician or a rich entity.

    The Canadian system is soft on crime as long as you are a Native or non-white. Way to go Jerry Agar !!!!!!!

    EM
    Toronto
    1. Rick posted on 01/04/2013 11:08 PM
      @EM Stop with your racial rankings EM. That's all you ever do, is rant about whites? You Sir are a racist. Everyone is angry about their light sentence, whites, blacks, everyone. So, shut up with your diatribes. I, and everyone else who reads these comments and have seen your previous comments are fed up with them. Canada is my country, your country, and it is a great and welcoming country, so start respecting your chosen home and the people who live here.
    2. Ralph posted on 01/04/2013 11:32 PM
      @EM Nebojsa Maodus...maybe not all white but I'm just going by the name here,Racist comes in all kinds but I see it very much so here the police here are guilty but the punishment fits the crime ,if jailed it costs many more times to keep an ex cop in jail then normal convicts and to put them in regular population would cost lives ,would you want that on the heads of those who sent them there,it would make it easy for others to ignore the errors of police who break the rules and more cover ups then ensue
  4. EM posted on 01/04/2013 11:29 PM
    Rick

    You follow cases in this city as all of us do, but honestly don’t you get sick and tired of this nonsense? Pick me a single time you have seen a black man sentenced in this manner and all records of sentence are public. And I need only one. Rick let me leave this sentence alone, let me address the reporting on cases on CFRB its self. Go back and listen to all crimes reported by the station, but listen to the description its self. There are specific cases where a race is not given. Because all reporting of cases go with a shooting has happened here and one is dead suspect being looked for is black with this and that and that. Is it a coincidence that whenever a color of a suspect is not mentioned the perpetuator is white? And common that tis a straight question for all these reporting are ion record in the station and you can review them as simple request to the station. Go to the station and ask for he reports and see where you have no color description and wonder how it matches. Why is it a very public common knowledge that if you do not here a color description of a suspect you know it is white? And you think by not talking about it it goes away? Geez man I am too old for that nonsense. Rich where are the photographs of these officers and all of them? They’re convicts aren’t they? Give this topic tops to Monday it is going to be removed. And it all survives for the moment any one raises up to mention it he gets lambasted with you re a racist. Really ? Me complaining that this is silly and it cannot happen if they’re black? Is it a coincidence that in all soldiers that we lost in Afghanistan it is only the kid from Hamilton whose criminal records were made public and became a news taboo as his family was grieving? Oh he was black thank you. Do you want to know how many white soldiers that had criminal brush and it was never put in papers?

    Unbelievable.

    EM
    Toronto
    1. Rick posted on 01/04/2013 11:37 PM
      @EM I don't know where you have been but there have been pictures plastered all over the place of these cops, and for the past few years. I resent when you call Canada and the people racists. Canadians on a whole are not racist, we are so far from it and we welcome everyone. You are much more racist and obsessed with whites against the world then anyone I have ever encountered.Now go and brush the chip off of your shoulder and stop reading race into everything.
    2. Ralph posted on 01/04/2013 11:42 PM
      @EM they put in what is unusual stating the obvious is a waste of time,
      by the way EM you do sound like a racist what have you done to solve the problems (straight corrupt ....say what ?!) it's a bad thing but it's your bad thing makes it right..?
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  5. KP posted on 01/04/2013 11:55 PM
    It,s not about being a racist ! It's about how strong your union will defend you from being Stupid !

    Teachers union
    Police union
    Auto union

    All unions will keep bad people working and good people down
    1. Rick posted on 01/05/2013 12:04 AM
      @KP Most of us realize that but EM always turns it into something with racial overtones. He has many long racially slanted diatribes on her over the years. It's really annoying.
    2. Rick posted on 01/05/2013 12:04 AM
      @KP Most of us realize that but EM always turns it into something with racial overtones. He has many long racially slanted diatribes on her over the years. It's really annoying.
  6. KP posted on 01/05/2013 12:14 AM
    Hurt in a car , call William Mattar

    Lawyers and Unions
  7. EM posted on 01/05/2013 12:26 AM
    KP

    Is it really a union or societal hypocrisy? If it is union then the Police would not get unbelievable increment when teachers are being burnt at a cost of our kids when the two entities are in union. Look some of us are immigrants into this society but we now know who are equal and more equal. What union does Jerry Agar work for to fail making this a topic one of his program? Just curious !!!!!!!!! Try and get a Toronto tax payer to pay 12 million dollars to your defense and get a home sentence of 45 days and see how fast Jerry Agar will fry you dry.

    Until when you are white and a Police Officer.

    EM
    Toronto
    1. Rick posted on 01/05/2013 12:30 AM
      @EM Okay KP you take tis one!
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