Canadian who posed as pilot for free flights pleads guilty to wire fraud in U.S.
Officials in the United States say a Toronto man who falsely posed as a commercial pilot to get hundreds of free flights has pleaded guilty to wire fraud.
The U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Hawaii says court documents show Dallas Pokornik, 34, admitted to using a fake employee identification card to get free flights from three airlines between January 2020 and late October 2024.
They say Pokornik, who previously worked as a flight attendant for a commercial airline in Canada,
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Police investigating after man sprayed with substance in Cambridge
Waterloo regional police say they are investigating reports of a man being sprayed with a noxious substance by an unknown woman in Cambridge late Sunday.
Around 9:15 p.m., officers responded to reports that a man had been sprayed by a woman with an unidentified harmful substance. The encounter took place near Glebe and St Andrews streets, just west of the Grand River.
The man was treated for non-life-threatening injuries, and the woman who had sprayed the substance left the area before officers could arrive
York police seeks 2 suspects after vehicles set on fire in Markham neighbourhood
York Regional Police (YRP) officers are trying to identify two suspects who allegedly set two vehicles on fire in a residential area of Markham late last month.
Emergency crews were called to Gatcombe Circle at around 2:13 a.m. on July 24 for reports of a fire. Upon arrival, police found one vehicle engulfed in flames. A second vehicle’s trunk was on fire.
“Richmond Hill Fire and Emergency Services extinguished the blaze and determined the fire was the result of arson,” a
Third suspect charged in synagogue shootings across Vaughan and Toronto
York Regional Police (YRP) have charged a third suspect in connection with a series of March shootings targeting synagogues in Vaughan and Toronto.
The newly charged suspect, Chris Perreira, 23, of Barrie, is now accused in four separate shootings across York Region and Toronto, including the two synagogue attacks that occurred within an hour of each other.
The first shooting happened just before midnight on March 6 , when residents near Clark Avenue West and York Hill Boulevard reported hearing gunshots. York Regional Police officers arrived to find the
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Ontario woman warns others after PC Optimum card gets hacked
It took one woman nearly a year to rack up hundreds of thousands of PC Optimum points. It took thieves a matter of minutes to steal them all.
Mandy Campbell, who lives in Kincardine, Ont., reached out to us after making the discovery in late July.
“The person behind this had used the barcode that’s on the PC app itself to steal my points,” she said.
According to her app, the points were cashed in at a Shoppers Drug Mart in Oakville with timestamps. The
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Facing possible season-ending surgery, Blue Jays’ Yesavage ready for ‘best course of action’
Trey Yesavage immediately knew something was wrong when he felt a pinching sensation in his left knee after throwing a warm-up pitch for the third inning Tuesday night. He tried another, struggled to plant his leg, conferred with Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider and assistant trainer Voon Chong, and after one final attempt, shook his head and walked off the field at Houston’s Daikin Park.
“It was weird, I’d never felt that before, so I knew something was bugging me,” Yesavage,