Street Beat – Apr. 9 – Peel Officer Charged, BlackBerry Users Warned About Bogus Email
Posted April 9, 2010 12:15 pm.
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A seven-year veteran of the Peel Regional Police force has been arrested and charged.
Officers allege that Constable Kyle Gatt, 34, was involved in an investigation while assigned to the street crime/gang unit.
The charges are related to the investigation. Gatt was suspended with pay on October 15, 2009 and will next appear in court in May.
He has been charged with:
- Theft Over $5000
- Possession of Stolen Property
- Breach of Trust.
BlackBerry Users Warned About Bogus Email
BlackBerry manufacturer Research In Motion is warning its users to look out for a bogus message which may contain a link to a virus.
The message – which begins, “Hello, greetings from RIM (Research In Motion) proprietors of BlackBerry,” but did not in fact come from the Waterloo-based company – instructs recipients to forward it to everyone on their contact list.
Although the message appears to be spam and the link included seems to go nowhere, police were concerned enough to notify the public.
The message reads:
Hello, greetings from RIM (Research In Motion) proprietors of BlackBerry. This message is to inform all of our users, that our servers have recently been really full, so we are asking for your help to fix this problem. We need our active users to re-send this message to everyone on your contact list inorder to confirm our active users that use BlackBerry Messenger, if you do not send this message to all your BlackBerry Messenger contacts then your account will remain inactive with the consequence of losing all your contacts.
We apologize for the inconvenience but this is the only way possible to resolve this problem. Sincerely Research in Motion. For more information visit www.blackberry.com/inactiveusers
Shots Fired
Toronto Police are investigating after shots were fired near Jane St. and Woolner Ave. Friday afternoon.
One male suspect has been arrested, and there are reports as many as three people were seen running in different directions after the shots were fired.
The Emergency Task Force are setting up a command post in the area. They have closed Jane St. from Pritchard. to Haney Aves.
Stabbing
A stabbing in the city’s downtown core Friday night sent one man to hospital in serious condition.
A 21-year old male was stabbed several times at King and Dufferin St.
There are reports the stabbing took place on a TTC bus, but that has not been confirmed.
There’s no word on suspects or what motivated the incident.
