TORONTO POLICE SAY THEY SEIZED ITEMS FROM HAMILTON APARTMENT DURING
PROJECT MARVEL RAID

Toronto police say officers lawfully searched and seized items from a
Connaught Avenue South apartment in Hamilton during a countrywide
anti-gangs sweep, but the tenant maintains she doesn't know why police
broke down her door.

"Officers did execute a search warrant (at this address)," Toronto
police spokesperson Constable Tony Vella said Monday. "Officers did
seize items from the apartment ... There was evidence of drug use from
the apartment."

But Vella said he could not elaborate on what items police took
because the matter was before the courts.

Wendy Morgan, 36, who has lived in that Connaught apartment for about
a year, said Hamilton and Waterloo regional police only took a round
of ammunition and two scales she received from her uncle, who works in
antique gold.

Police did not follow up with her after the raid on Dec. 13, she said.

According to a search warrant obtained by The Spectator, police were
looking for text messages and documents linked to the gang Young Buck
Killers (YBK) as well as weapons and drugs.

Police were also searching for records of communication with Jamal
Wallace, 21, a Toronto man who is now facing 20 charges including the
possession and trafficking of cocaine. But Morgan said she does not
who he is nor did she recognize a photo of a young man police showed her.

The officers didn't even take her medicinal marijuana when they
forcibly entered her apartment and turned over furniture, garbage,
laundry and her Bob Marley posters that morning, she said.

Vella said officers had six search warrants for Hamilton locations
under Project Marvel, an Ontario-to-B.C. sweep targeting the YBK and
another gang, the G-Siders.

Last week, police admitted they got the wrong Melvin Avenue home that
same morning when they raided Sharon McCrudden's apartment while their
real target was a vacant unit next door.

Pamela Markland, the resident at another search warrant target on
Roxborough Avenue, says police also wrongfully targeted her home in
those same raids. Police have said, however, they only got a single
address wrong in the operation.

Morgan has been in trouble with police in the past but said she got
clean about 13 years ago before her son was born and converted to
Islam seven years ago. The last time she was in jail was 1997, the
mother of four said.

The latest raid has shaken her up, making her afraid to go out and see
people. Her door was ripped off its hinges and her dog, Diva, was so
afraid, she defecated all over the apartment, Morgan said.