Ottawa Senators assistant GM Randy Lee faces new harassment charge
Ottawa Senators assistant GM Randy Lee has been charged with a new count of harassment stemming from his May 31 arrest in Buffalo after a hotel shuttle driver complained of unwanted sexual advances....
View ArticleSens may face lawsuit over Randy Lee harassment case: Family of teen...
The family of the 19-year-old hotel employee who complained to police about unwanted sexual advances by Ottawa Senators assistant GM Randy Lee has retained a top civil lawyer to review the case with...
View ArticleMan who lost mind after 18 months in solitary at Innes Road jail settles with...
Mutuir Rehman, the young killer who lost his mind on Innes Road after a staggering 18 months in solitary confinement, has won an out-of-court settlement from the province for failing him. Prison staff...
View ArticleSens assistant GM seeks dismissal of harassment charges
Ottawa Senators assistant general manager Randy Lee intends to plead not guilty on Friday to his latest harassment charge and set a date to file a motion to dismiss the entire case against him. Lee,...
View ArticleLongtime OHL billet gets bail ahead of appeal on sex crimes convictions
Neil Joynt, a long-serving OHL billet with links to NHL stars, has won a bail extension while he awaits his appeal on convictions for sex crimes against children. Joynt, a once-prominent figure in the...
View ArticleOttawa man acquitted in vicious beating case of drug-dealing paraplegic
Sometimes a police case can have all the markings of a solid investigation only for it to fall apart in court. In the case against Tyler Brazeau — tried for a vicious July 1, 2015 home invasion of a...
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Ottawa Valley man guilty in plot to rape, murder and dispose of wife's body...
PEMBROKE — Driven by jealousy, Michael Vitello hatched a plan in January 2017 to abduct, gang-rape and kill his wife in a gruesome conspiracy that included dismembering and freezing her body parts...
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Anti-immigration rally on Hill fizzles, leader disappointed
It’s one thing to click the like button on Facebook, but quite another to show up in person for a Canada-first, anti-immigration rally on Parliament Hill. The Mounties and Hill security didn’t need to...
View ArticleOttawa police find 92-year-old man, missing since Saturday, safe and sound
Ottawa Police said Sunday that a 92-year-old man reported missing Saturday had been found safe and sound. Merrill Stalker was reported missing after being last seen driving his silver Mazda 3 on...
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Rally in Ottawa targets rollback of Ontario sex-education curriculum
Young and old, queer and straight, they gathered under the shade of trees at Ottawa’s human-rights monument to rally loudly against the new Ontario government’s rollback on the province’s modernized...
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Ottawa man off to jail for not testifying against brother-in-law gangster
Nobody likes testifying in court, let alone as the prosecution’s star witness at your brother-in-law’s murder trial. Ottawa’s Ali Abdul-Hussein, an accessory after-the-fact in a 2006 gangland killing,...
View ArticleAccused killer Adam Picard loses fresh bid for stay in murder case
Accused killer Adam Picard has lost a fresh bid for another stay of his first-degree murder case after a judge said it had no merit, all delays were to accommodate the defence, and in a stinging...
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Accused ringleader in sex-shame attack branded a liar in court
Eunice “Chou Chou” Ilunga would love to have been anywhere else than in the witness box in Courtroom No. 36 under cross-examination by the seasoned James Cavanagh on Friday. And it didn’t take long for...
View ArticleTeen lovers beat man over drug debt before he fell 16 storeys to his death,...
Ahmed Afrah begged for his life as the teenage lovers beat him and then chased him to death over a lousy drug debt. It was the night of May 15, 2017, and Afrah owed money to a 16-year-old dealer...
View ArticleOrléans man arrested on a terrorism peace bond
A young Orléans man with a history of schizophrenia was nabbed by the RCMP last month over fears he would engage in terrorism. Abdulmuti Elmi’s episodes have landed him in trouble with the law in the...
View ArticleVictim of ByWard Market serial rapist remains unknown to Ottawa cops
In the disturbing video, the severely drugged woman is seen lying on the couch, her eyes half-closed, as she raises her arms and covers her face and says, “Stop, don’t do this,” just before her head...
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Ottawa man brutally beaten over drug debt before being chased to death: Crown
His accused killers figured Ahmed Afrah, just 18, was an easy mark — a vulnerable drug addict who owed them money. They thought nothing about slapping someone around to collect a drug debt and so, on...
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'I'm one of the lucky ones,' says Ottawa bus crash survivor with two broken legs
Craig Beaton, 30, clocked out at the print shop on Slater Street around 3:30 p.m. on Friday, hit the TD bank machine, and then the store for a pack of smokes (Viceroy Red Regular), before walking to...
View ArticleCanadian border agent developed appetite for child porn after exposure at work
When police showed up to Mathieu Pahle’s home in 2014 with a warrant and asked him if they’d find child porn on his computer, he said “probably” and let them in. Pahle, now 36, wasn’t your usual...
View ArticleBarrhaven's traffic chaos: 'It's a battle every day'
Jan Harder drove to her city hall job last week and it took two and a half hours for the full 23-kilometre trek from her Barrhaven home. The Barrhaven councillor is at the point now where some days she...
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