Toronto pizza restaurant shut down after community complaints about drug dealing

alp227

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Wed Feb-16-11 02:38 AM
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Toronto pizza restaurant shut down after community complaints about drug dealing

Edited on Wed Feb-16-11 02:38 AM by alp227

Seriously. Drug dealing happening through a pizza place in Toronto; I learned about that story while listening to Here and Now on CBC Radio One (the Toronto station) this afternoon. I'd listened because Brian Deer, the journalist who exposed the fraudulent autism/vaccine research of Andrew Wakefield, appeared on the show.

The Torstar News Service reports:

Police descended on Pizza Gigi with a search warrant just after 1:30 a.m. Monday. They say they found $1 million worth of marijuana, half an ounce of crack cocaine, Oxycocet and OxyContin. Owner Salvatore Crimi, 57, faces 15 drug-related charges.

The pizza place has been in business for more then 30 years. In a neighbourhood of century-old homes and stately trees, it stands out like a sore thumb: It�s in a hard-to-miss canary-yellow building whose north side is covered with hundreds of posters.

OxyContin? Hmm, I begin thinking about Rush Limbaugh for some reason when I hear that.

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TheMadMonk

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Wed Feb-16-11 02:49 AM
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1. Not that uncommon.

There have been other piza restraunts which supported side businesses and I'm sure others are doing a roaring trade today. You just have to know what "topping" to ask for and it's delivered to your door.

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Historic NY

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Wed Feb-16-11 03:50 AM
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2. Ah, "pizza connection" .....already been done here in the US

Edited on Wed Feb-16-11 03:53 AM by Historic NY

http://www.americanmafia.com/Feature_Articles_271.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_Connection_Trial

Those were fun times..

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Journeyman

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Wed Feb-16-11 04:04 AM
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3. The A&W Burger Stand near me when I was kid was shut down for the same cause. . .

that would have been 1965 or so . . .

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TorchTheWitch

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Wed Feb-16-11 04:19 AM
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4. same for a pizza place near me when I was young

Must have been some time in the late 70's. They were so obvious about it yet it took like 10 years before it was finally shut down.

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Journeyman

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Wed Feb-16-11 05:40 AM
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5. Someone was making money or in need of the connection. . .

it's part of the reason the whole "war on. . ." is so absurd -- too much money & too much demand.

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hermetic

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Wed Feb-16-11 08:00 AM
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6. But, but

we thought it was oregano.

I absolutely adore CBC Radio One, listen to it all the time. Vinyl Cafe, Wire Tap, Afghanada, all excellent shows. Plus they introduced me to the best music I've heard in years. It is a travesty that the Con government wants to shut it down.

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alp227

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Wed Feb-16-11 11:51 PM
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11. just like how in American the Republicans want to defund PBS and NPR

I've listened to CBC Radio One since first visiting Canada (Vancouver/Victoria/Calgary/etc.) in summer 2009, and that station has some great programming.

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KharmaTrain

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Wed Feb-16-11 08:08 AM
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7. The Mafia Was Doing This 40 Years Ago...

...and probably longer than that. A buddy who worked at a local pizzeria would tell us about all the "extras" that were being delivered...sex, drugs, numbers running...a Pizza parlor was the ideal place to run it out of.

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KurtNYC

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Wed Feb-16-11 08:17 AM
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8. The mafia is alive and well in Canada

$1 mil worth of pot ?? That's a busy pizza place.

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hobbit709

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Wed Feb-16-11 08:22 AM
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9. divide by 10 and you might be more accurate on the value.

Edited on Wed Feb-16-11 08:22 AM by hobbit709

They always overinflate the value of drugs to make it more important.

I remember one bust where they said the value of the cocaine seized was worth so many millions. I got out my little calculator and dived by amount and it came to $945 a gram. My comment was at that price it better get me off just looking at it considering the street prices at the time was $80/gram.

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Blue_Tires

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Wed Feb-16-11 08:39 AM
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10. Back in the 90s, local law enforcement closed a local chain

of popular barbershops for being a huge conduit of cocaine from one of the D.C. crime bosses

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