Life sentences plsOPP's ROPE squad issues alert for wanted offender with Markham links
stop giving dudes light sentences
Life sentences plsOPP's ROPE squad issues alert for wanted offender with Markham links
stop giving dudes light sentences
so breh got parole and caught a body on parole?![]()
looks that way,altogether he's got at least 2 bodies.........
MANDEL: Gun crime and the revolving door of justice
Jordan Mendez should have been safely behind bars, no longer a menace to the rest of society. Instead, he is charged for the second time with first-degree murder, with allegedly another innocent victim who may be added to his list.
Author of the article:
Michele Mandel
Publishing date:
Jan 21, 2022 • 21 hours ago • 3 minute read •
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Jordan Mendez should have been safely behind bars, no longer a menace to the rest of society.
Instead, he is charged for the second time with first-degree murder, with allegedly another innocent victim who may be added to his list.
His sorry saga begins a decade ago. Just eight days after he was released from serving time in a youth detention centre for concealing a loaded prohibited firearm, Mendez, 18, was under arrest for the shooting death of 20-year-old Joel Waldron.
In the late evening of Feb. 26, 2011, Waldron was home in Scarborough with his family when he left to buy some juice. Moments later, his mother and brother heard gunshots and rushed out to find him lying in the snow.
The young father had been shot twice in the back and once in the back of the head and died soon after.
Mendez and his friend Shamaree Wilson, longtime friends of Waldron, had been at a nearby baby shower and were asked to leave. A video camera captured two figures running from the general direction of the party to the general direction of Waldron’s Blackwater Cres. home about three to five minutes before he was shot.
Two figures were then seen running following the gunfire.
Footprints led to Mendez and his friend Wilson being arrested a short time later at the home of Wilson’s former girlfriend, where they’d changed their clothes and thrown the handgun in her backyard recycling bin.
At the 2013 trial, the Crown’s theory was that Waldron had been lured outside by two phone calls and had been ambushed by Mendez and Wilson, although prosecutors couldn’t prove which man was the shooter. Both were convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Unfortunately, that’s not where the story ends.
The Court of Appeal found the men hadn’t received a fair trial due to errors in the judge’s charge to the jury. They ordered a retrial.
This time, the new trial judge ruled the two unidentified phone calls received by Waldron just before the shooting were inadmissible evidence. Mendez took the stand and told the jury he’d bumped into Waldron on the street by chance and it was the victim who pulled the gun on him after calling him a snitch. He wrestled the gun away and when Waldron went to throw a punch, he said he blindly fired three shots.
“He claims he did not aim at Joel Waldron and continued to run away after the shots were fired,” wrote the trial judge.
The jury bought it and convicted Mendez of manslaughter and acquitted Wilson.
In August 2019, Mendez was sentenced to 15 years, less credit for pretrial custody of 12 years, 7.5 months. That left him two years and four months to serve. According to the sentencing decision, his release plan was to live with a family member in northern Ontario, “far from the violence and bad influences of certain parts of Toronto.”
So much for that.
In April 2021, Mendez was out on statutory release — and already in trouble. The Repeat Offender Parole Enforcement (R.O.P.E.) Squad asked the public for assistance in their hunt for Mendez — “He has a tattoo of “RIP Mom 1958-2008” on his right forearm, “Mendez” on his left forearm and a crown on his left arm” — who was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for allegedly breaching terms of his release.
According to the release, he was also being investigated by South Simcoe Police for gun offences.
In July, the Toronto Police Integrated Gun and Gang Task Force arrested Mendez in a vehicle with two other wanted men and charged him with 11 firearms offences, including discharge firearm with intent to wound endanger life.
And then came news the other day that Mendez is now facing a new murder charge as well.
Durham Regional Police charged him along with another man with first-degree murder in last June’s shooting of Trurell Brown, 29, who was gunned down during an outdoor party at his townhouse complex in Ajax.
A victim who may still be alive if not for the revolving door of justice.
mmandel@postmedia.com
MANDEL: Gun crime and the revolving door of justice | Toronto Sun
And the sad thing is nothing will change4.8%
Try 10-15% being the real number and possibly higher. We are truly fukked![]()
And the sad thing is nothing will change
Take housing for example..
housing crisis is just another mismanagement, they have deliberately turned housing into an investment commodity. There is enough land and resources in this country to solve this.. But the officials don't give a shyt because they don't fear losing vote.
Genzies going to need 100k downpayment![]()
4.8%
Try 10-15% being the real number and possibly higher. We are truly fukked![]()
how you figure?4.8%
Try 10-15% being the real number and possibly higher. We are truly fukked![]()