Inside Ukraine's secret deep strike against Russian bombers
Ukrainian drones struck deep into enemy territory in Russia, with officials claiming the attack destroyed over 40 Russian warplanes. Andrew Chang explains how Ukraine is believed to have pulled off what it describes as its longest-range attack against Russia, and how it says it was able to do so undetected. Images provided by Getty Images, The Canadian Press and Reuters.
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HUNTER: Dope kingpin thought U.S. judges were like ours. He was wrong
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Create Account Hell, he didn't even need a defence. The way the 43-year-old Laotian-Canadian man sees it: He will be exonerated by appellate courts in Michigan. He argues he never should have been extradited to the U.S. in the first place. Sychantha wants the courts to kick his sentence to the curb. In a motion filed in April, the Windsor-area drug trafficker claimed he was … kidnapped from Canada and brought to the U.S. without an extradition hearing. The American and Canadian flags fly at the Ambassador Bridge border crossing in Windsor, Ont., on Feb. 9, 2022. Photo by GEOFF ROBINS / AFP via Getty Images The alumna of Homeland Security's 10 Most Wanted list appears geographically illiterate. His trial was held in Detroit. Not Vancouver. Not Toronto. Not Brampton. In those places, too many judges would have been ready, willing and able to swallow hook, line and sinker nearly any sob story before them. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Not so the United States. As reported by The Detroit News, Sychantha was sentenced to 20 years in prison, U.S. Attorney Jerome Gorgon, Jr. said in a statement. He was also ordered to serve five years of supervised release after his two-decade prison sentence. Following that, the States will deport him back to Canada. Lucky us. What Gorgon said (and it needs to be heard by every Canadian politician) is this: 'In order to be a nation, we must have secure borders. Americans need to be protected from transnational criminals dumping their dangerous drugs into our communities.' Amen. DIFFERENT BALL GAME IN DETROIT: OH OH: Khaophone Sychantha, 43, of Lakeshore, faces life in a U.S. prison. 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Create Account Hell, he didn't even need a defence. The way the 43-year-old Laotian-Canadian man sees it: He will be exonerated by appellate courts in Michigan. He argues he never should have been extradited to the U.S. in the first place. Sychantha wants the courts to kick his sentence to the curb. In a motion filed in April, the Windsor-area drug trafficker claimed he was … kidnapped from Canada and brought to the U.S. without an extradition hearing. The American and Canadian flags fly at the Ambassador Bridge border crossing in Windsor, Ont., on Feb. 9, 2022. Photo by GEOFF ROBINS / AFP via Getty Images The alumna of Homeland Security's 10 Most Wanted list appears geographically illiterate. His trial was held in Detroit. Not Vancouver. Not Toronto. Not Brampton. In those places, too many judges would have been ready, willing and able to swallow hook, line and sinker nearly any sob story before them. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Not so the United States. As reported by The Detroit News, Sychantha was sentenced to 20 years in prison, U.S. Attorney Jerome Gorgon, Jr. said in a statement. He was also ordered to serve five years of supervised release after his two-decade prison sentence. Following that, the States will deport him back to Canada. Lucky us. What Gorgon said (and it needs to be heard by every Canadian politician) is this: 'In order to be a nation, we must have secure borders. Americans need to be protected from transnational criminals dumping their dangerous drugs into our communities.' Amen. DIFFERENT BALL GAME IN DETROIT: OH OH: Khaophone Sychantha, 43, of Lakeshore, faces life in a U.S. prison. Sychantha was convicted in a jury trial last October of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, ecstasy, and N-benzylpiperazine, or BZP, possession of methamphetamine, ecstasy, and BZP with intent to distribute, and possession of ecstasy and BZP with intent to distribute after a six-day trial. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The convicted man has maintained his innocence. It truly is a travesty! Call Amnesty! And as if his kidnapping wasn't enough, Sychantha added he didn't have the mental capacity to conduct a proper defence without the assistance of a lawyer. He claimed (and I'm not kidding) that the court, by 'allowing him to represent himself, made a mockery of the judicial system.' Remember: He didn't want a lawyer. No, I would say it's our old friend Mr. Sychantha attempting to make a 'mockery' of the system. The feds alleged that the enterprising immigrant oversaw a massive dope peddling ring that transported pills from Canada into the U.S. Tens of thousands of dollars in illicit profit returned here over the Ambassador Bridge between 2003 and 2011. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. He was arrested and indicted in 2005. Sychantha was then hammered with a superseding indictment in 2013. AMERICAN JUSTICE: Khaophone Sychantha, 43, of Lakeshore has been sentenced to 20 years in a U.S. prison. Of course, there were the entanglements with the Canadian justice system. Sychantha had been arrested and charged in three separate criminal cases here but got out of Dodge in 2014 while under, ahem, house arrest. He was accused of assaulting a cop in Montreal in 2017 and was arrested. Sychantha was extradited to Detroit in 2023. 'This sentencing brings Sychantha's cross-border criminal enterprise to a fitting end,' said Jared Murphey, acting special agent in charge of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations' Detroit Office. 'ICE HSI will continue to collaborate with our partners to disrupt and dismantle international drug trafficking operations that seek to poison our communities.' Khaophone Sychantha did indeed need a lawyer. Or at the very least, a compliant Canadian judge who would have allowed him to skate one more time. For old times' sake. bhunter@ @HunterTOSun Sunshine Girls Toronto & GTA Sunshine Girls Toronto & GTA Olympics
CBC
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- CBC
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