on September 11, 2015 in World News
Toronto police planted loose heroin in suspect’s car
Toronto police planted loose heroin in suspect’s car to justify illegal search, judge rules by Douglas Quan Toronto police committed “egregious wrongful conduct” after they planted loose heroin on the centre console of a drug suspect’s car to create a pretext for searching the vehicle, a judge has found. In January 2014, Toronto police arrested Nguyen Son Tran in the city’s Chinatown after finding 11 grams of plastic-wrapped heroin tucked behind the steering column of his car. But Ontario Superior Court Judge Edward Morgan ruled last week that officers never had the right to search the car in the first place… View Article
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