T.O. COP FACES DRUG CHARGES

Heroin, Cocaine Found In A Home

ORANGEVILLE -- A Toronto cop who has been investigated as part of a probe
into alleged drug squad corruption was charged yesterday with possession of
heroin, cocaine and ecstasy for the purpose of trafficking. Ned Nebjosa
Maodus, 40, a 15-year veteran, was charged with possessing two separate
amounts of cocaine and a quantity of heroin, each for the purposes of
trafficking.

Maodus, a 6-foot-3, 260-pound man with a shock of black hair, was also
charged with possession of ecstasy.

An RCMP-led 25-member Toronto Police internal affairs task force probing
allegations of corruption within central field command alleges in a press
release that the drugs were found on his Orangeville area property, 21
months ago.

Confidential Papers

Sources say the task force searched the home on March 22, 2002, one day
after OPP, who arrested Maodus on unrelated matters, told their Toronto
counterparts that highly confidential Toronto Police documentation was in
Maodus' home.

Sources say Maodus had not served with a drug unit since 1999 and that he
had been off work with chronic back problems for about 100 days prior to
the alleged discovery of the drugs.

Maodus was charged and taken into custody on the drug charges yesterday
morning only hours before a scheduled court appearance to set a trial date
on OPP charges of sexual assault, assault causing bodily harm, two counts
of assault, uttering threats and numerous weapons charges. It's alleged he
was in possession of an unauthorized weapon -- a Glock semi-automatic
pistol -- obtained by crime.

Maodus, suspended with pay after his March 21, 2002 arrest, was committed
to trial last month on the assault and related charges.

After a swift bail hearing on the new charges yesterday, Justice of the
Peace John Creelman freed Maodus on $10,000 surety posted by his
brother-in-law Russ Martin.

Creelman ordered a publication ban on evidence disclosed at yesterday's
hearing at the request of lawyer Harry Black, representing Maodus for the
Toronto Police Association. Publication bans also cover evidence and
information given at an initial bail hearing, a bail review hearing and the
preliminary inquiry relating to the OPP charges.

The identity of the alleged sex assault victim in the OPP case is protected
by all three bans.

Maodus was placed under effective house arrest at his parents' Windsor home.

He was also charged six weeks ago with kicking a Windsor cop during a
fracas at a Windsor police station.