Police announced Project Hobart in December 2019 with 28 arrests and claims of disrupting of a $131-million illegal gambling network with links to GTA mobsters.
A massive illegal gambling case against GTA Hells Angels bikers has been dropped because it was taking too long to move through the courts.with dozens of arrests in December 2019
“We of course are very happy,” lawyer Craig Bottomley said in court in court Wednesday. “The prosecution is dead.” It was estimated the case would take 41 months and seven days to wind through the courts — 11 months beyond the constitutional ceiling for the reasonable time for a trial, as laid out inThe ruling sets a time limit for the completion of a trial, beyond which the delay is considered “presumptively unreasonable” and the case will be tossed unless the Crown can prove there are exceptional circumstances, such as the complexity of the case.
Reda faced three bookmaking charges and another for the commission of an offence for a criminal organization. Before his death, Niagara Hells Angel Michael Deabaitua-Schulde was originally also targeted in the project. Deabaitua-SchuldeIn total, police announced 228 related charges against 28 people from across the province and Oka, Que.
While on bail on the original Project Hobart charges, Barletta survived an attack by two gunmen on Ontario Street in Toronto, just south of Gerrard Street East, in Cabbagetown.
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