Warning about ‘dangerous offender’ who attacked 5-year-old issued by Toronto police
Toronto police have released a warning about a high-risk offender they say poses a risk to the community and children who has been released from prison earlier this month.
In 2019, police say Gares was convicted of assault causing bodily harm and found to be a Dangerous Offender.
Court documents show Gares’ victim was a five-year-old child who, in 2016, was assaulted while entering a bakery with his mother and brother.
Multiple witnesses reported seeing Gares kick the child with great force, the documents show.
Court documents show the young child was rendered temporarily unconscious and taken to hospital.
Police say Gares is subject to a long-term supervision order and a lifetime weapons prohibition order.
In 2024, police say Gares was convicted of breaching his long-term supervision order and was incarcerated until earlier this month.
Court documents also show in 2013, Gares “threatened to kill elementary school aged children” when he was angered by the Children’s Aid Society’s refusal to allow him access to his own children.
Records show his lawyer felt these threats to be “sufficiently serious to necessitate informing the police.”
He was convicted on two charges of threatening death, theft, assault with intent to resist arrest and for failing to comply with probation.
Upon his release in 2015, police issued a public warning to about two dozen public schools in his former neighborhood, sending home letters to parents about his “threat to public safety.”
While on statutory release, Gares has numerous conditions, including not entering drinking establishments, not consuming alcohol, not consuming drugs, and following a treatment plan.
The Toronto Police Service says it is notifying the public about Gares because of his demonstrated risk to the community and children.
Anyone with information about Gares asked by police to call them or Crime Stoppers.
Canada arrests four accused of forming
anti-gov't militia
By Darryl Coote
No information about motive or ideology was released by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police when it announced the arrests in a statement Tuesday.
Three of the suspects -- Marc-Aurele Chabot, 24, Simon Angers-Audet, 24, and Raphael Lagace -- are accused of taking "concrete actions to facilitate terrorist activity," a charge punishable with up to 14 years in prison.
According to the RCMP, Chabot, Angers-Audet and Lagace have been accused of planning to create an anti-government militia, for which they participated in military-style training, including shooting, ambush, survival and navigation exercises, involving firearms, some of which are banned.
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A fourth suspect, Matthew Forbes, 33, faces a slew of charges, including possession of firearms, prohibited devices and explosives and related offenses.
All four men are from the province of Quebec.
The arrests follow searches conducted in Quebec City in January 2024 that uncovered 16 explosive devices, 11,000 rounds of ammunition, nearly 130 magazines and 83 firearms and accessories. Four pairs of night vision goggles and other military equipment were also seized.
Images released by the RCMP include a screenshot of an Instagram account that Canadian authorities said one of the suspect's alleged(sic) used to recruit new members. Other released photos included several displaying the large cache of firearms seized and one of the men in tactical gear appearing to be undergoing training.
The Canadian Armed Forces confirmed in a statement that two active military members were among the four arrested and charged.
RCMP Staff Sgt. Camille Habel told CBC News that their investigation into the men dates back to the spring of 2023, but that the militant group dates back to at least 2021.
Without going into specifics concerning what the group's intention was with the Quebec City land they intended to seize, Habel said, "in that ideology in general, quite often we would see a desire to create a new society, a desire to live by different values and wanting to change or create some kind of chaos so that they could take over society to created(sic) it and live it the way that they want."
She added that they know more than just the four people arrested are interested in this unspecified ideology, which, she said, "is an issue in Canada right now."
"It is not a case that will fix the problem," she said. "It is really a societal problem."
Can you be more specific SSgt Habel? What is the real cause of the rise of the far-right? It's just too politically incorrect to talk about.
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