SUIT ALLEGES COP TORTURE

Former Drug Officer Defendant

A Toronto Police officer who allegedly kept cocaine, heroin and Ecstasy on
his rural Orangeville property is alleged in a civil lawsuit to have helped
torture an admitted drug dealer and extort cash from him. Ned Maodus, 40,
is one of six former drug cops named as a defendant in a $625,000 damages
suit filed by Christopher Quigley of Toronto over an alleged 1998 assault.

In a statement of claim filed in Ontario Superior Court in November 2002,
Quigley alleges that Maodus, Const. Rick Benoit and their boss, Det. Sgt.
John Schertzer, beat him unconscious and hurt him so badly that he was
taken to Sunnybrook hospital by ambulance with serious injuries.

Quigley also names three other cops as defendants and claims that ex-chief
David Boothby and the Toronto Police Services Board are responsible for
their actions.

Gunpoint Arrest

None of the allegations have been proven in court.

In a statement of defence filed last January, the six officers deny any
wrongdoing.

While they admit they arrested Quigley at gunpoint, handcuffed him, took
him to 52 Division and charged him, they deny all other allegations.

Maodus was charged Monday with two counts of possession of cocaine for the
purposes of trafficking, another count relating to heroin and with
possession of Ecstasy. An RCMP-led task force alleges it found the drugs
March 22, 2002, one day after OPP arrested Maodus on unrelated charges of
sexual assault, assault causing bodily harm, two counts of assault,
uttering threats and weapons charges.

Assault Charge

Maodus is also charged with assaulting a cop in Windsor.

Quigley alleges that Schertzer's team arrested him and another man at
gunpoint in a school parking lot April 30, 1998.

The officers counter that Quigley was there for a drug deal.

After Quigley confessed to having drugs at home, Schertzer accused him of
being a grower and "began punching Quigley in the face and stomach," the
statement of claim alleges.

Quigley's head hit a wall and he "blacked out," the statement alleges.

Quigley alleges when he regained consciousness, Schertzer called Benoit and
Maodus into the room and they beat him so fiercely he "feared they were
trying to kill him."

All of these allegations have been denied.