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Women humiliated, traumatized after sexual voyeur takes secret photos at office
Andrew Acelvari stood quietly as he was sentenced to 30 days at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre for secretly taking cellphone pictures of unsuspecting female co-workers who trusted him as a...
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Accused nightclub killer is the real victim: defence
Ahmed Hafizi did everything he could to avoid trouble with the man he’s accused of killing outside a ByWard Market nightclub on Jan. 22, 2012, his lawyer says. In detailed closing arguments Wednesday...
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Accused killer Hafizi's version makes no sense: Ottawa prosecutor
Ahmed Hafizi was anything but a victim on the night he lay in wait to kill Navid Niran in a surprise knife attack outside a ByWard Market nightclub on Jan. 22, 2012, court heard Thursday. In closing...
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Accused's chat with undercover agent led to terror charges, police say
Two days after his friends, the Larmond twins, had been arrested in an RCMP raid of a suspected ISIL network in Ottawa, authorities say Suliman Mohamed was looking to lie low. But he couldn’t help...
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Who is Awso Peshdary: The case against an alleged Ottawa extremist
By the end of 2016, a young Ottawa man named Awso Peshdary will go to trial on terror charges. Aedan Helmer and Gary Dimmock outline the police case against the figure they say was a recruiter for a...
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Young basketball star Eddie Ekiyor pleads guilty to hit-and-run
Eddie Ekiyor, a young Ottawa basketball star recruited to play for a major U.S. college team, pleaded guilty Monday in a hit-and-run last summer that left an off-duty police officer with serious back...
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Jury deliberates fate of Hafizi in murder trial
The jury in the murder trial of Ahmed Hafizi, 22, is now deliberating his fate after hearing weeks of evidence about the January 2012 night he stabbed Navid Niran, 24, outside a ByWard Market club....
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Ottawa police officer pleads guilty to mischief, harassment charge dropped
A disgraced Ottawa police officer once featured on recruitment posters pleaded guilty on Wednesday to mischief after more serious charges, including criminal harassment, were dismissed. Const. Jason...
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Ottawa teacher's aide admits sexually exploiting student for two years
The high school student had always struggled in class so when he met teacher’s aide Kathy Kitts, he was grateful. She would, he felt, guide him through graduation day. She helped him with his homework,...
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Hafizi guilty of first-degree murder in Market slaying
A young killer’s mother sobbed, collapsed and then screamed her son’s innocence moments after a jury found Ahmed Hafizi guilty in the 2012 slaying of Navid Niran outside a ByWard Market nightclub....
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Man guilty of criminally harassing woman, pair at centre of crime-family...
Michael Gleeson, the ex-boyfriend of a woman at the centre of a bullets-flying feud between former lovers and associates of crime families, pleaded guilty Tuesday afternoon to criminal harassment for a...
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HIV-positive man gets 9 years for trying to kill by infecting
Branded by a judge as “calculated and ruthless,” an HIV-positive Ottawa man who deliberately tried to infect unsuspecting sex partners only to later brag about it online was sentenced on Wednesday to...
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Ottawa boy lives in fear after terrifying home invasion
There’s a six-year-old boy in Ottawa who lives in fear the bad man with the mask will return like he said he would. It’s been five months since two masked men stormed into his home and terrorized him...
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'My criminal career is over': Dying convicted criminal calls it quits
In poor health and in a wheelchair, Daniel Rozon, 61, has declared his criminal career is finally over. From fraud to extortion to knifepoint robbery, Rozon terrorized victims on both sides of the...
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Judge finds Ottawa teen was raped, but convicts only one of three accused
In the end, it came down to the credibility of a teenage girl who was raped in 2013 while trying to catch an OC Transpo bus to visit her grandmother. The girl, then 15, said she had been gang raped and...
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Inside the Ottawa jail's shower cells: 'Nothing short of disgusting'
The overcrowded jail on Innes Road has used shower cells to lock up two inmates at the same time or, as the jail calls it, double-bunking. Only there are no bunks. Inmates slept on mattresses on the...
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Female Catholic board teacher charged with sexual assault on student
A 30-year-old female teacher at Mother Teresa High School in Barrhaven is facing sex charges after allegedly being involved in a sexual relationship with one of her students. Jessica Beraldin, who...
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Ottawa cancer patient denied bail, sent to jail after shoplifting charge
An Ottawa cancer patient in chemotherapy was jailed for four nights on a shoplifting charge after the Crown attorney’s office would not consent to the release of the petty thief. Kelly Tennier, 52, who...
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Young men jailed for 2014 killing of Carleton University student
Tausif Chowdhury, the popular Carleton University student killed on a bike path by the South Keys Transitway station on Nov. 26, 2014, was hammered and stabbed to death in a drug deal gone wrong. The...
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Ottawa man spent 18 months in solitary, unfit for trial after psychotic break
Mutiur Rehman, 22, may have lost his mind on Innes Road after spending a staggering 18 months in solitary confinement. Rehman was kept in isolation for up to 23 hours a day without any social...
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