The bomb squad shows up in Forest Hill and finds Byron Sonne’s buried treasure
The former Forest Hill home of alleged G20 plotter Byron Sonne looked like the scene of a cop show yesterday as Toronto’s bomb squad combed his backyard for buried explosives. A few days ago, Sonne’s trial was winding down, but Crown prosecutor Elizabeth Nadeau’s closing arguments renewed police suspicions that Sonne had more explosives squirreled away. (Nadeau referenced a May 2010 Internet chat in which Sonne talked about a “storage magazine” of potassium chlorate.) Sure enough, officers wearing badass Kevlar bomb suits used a robotic device to dig up a suspicious buried container, then sped across the city (in rush hour no less) to dump it in the Leslie Street spit. Thanks to that package, Sonne will likely be back in court soon—police won’t say yet whether the container contained potassium chlorate, but it’s probably safe to assume it wasn’t almond flour. Read the entire story »
Shouldn’t the detectives, crown and officer in charge of the investigation have caught this – 2 fricking years ago!!
D’oh
Most of the evidence they have put together against Byron they would find in my house too…I mean really….. Baking Soda, Peroxide, etc.. yes…have those.
Making gagets…yep that too, so work shop, metal tubes, wires…this is just crazy. This is not about his personal lab or having potentially explosive materials which we all could have. This is clearly about his speaking out against the G20 security perimeter, security measures and being a bit too open about his attempts to test them.
If the material was potassium chlorate, Byron won’t be back in court about it, because potassium chlorate is not an explosive. This “new information” has been in the possession of the Crown prosecutor for months. If the police suspected that potassium chlorate, a non-explosive, had been buried in the back yard for more than a year, one has to ask why it was necessary to bring in the bomb squad, and rush the material off for disposal during rush hour.
Oh, but wait. The detective behind this turns out to be Tam Bui, the guy whose extravagantly overstated charges against Sonne mostly had to be dropped because there was no evidence to support them. What did Det. Bui’s first imaginative flight of fancy cost this city? And what’s the price tag for his latest attempt to emulate the TV show “24”?