Police who lie: A peel region police officer lied under oath to cover up an illegal house search

By JESSE MCLEAN AND DAVID BRUSERStaff Reporters
Sat., April 28, 2012

 

 

 

As he berated the drug dealer’s brother, Peel Police Const. Jay Kirkpatrick had no idea he was being recorded.

The audio from that conversation, once presented in court, would compromise a major drug bust and catch a police officer lying, under oath, on the witness stand.

In September 2009, Peel police arrested Tan-Hung Dinh in a drug sting at a dingy Mississauga motel, seizing nearly a kilogram of cocaine, as well as other drugs.

 

In September 2009, Peel police arrested Tan-Hung Dinh in a drug sting at a dingy Mississauga motel, seizing nearly a kilogram of cocaine, as well as other drugs.

Constables Kirkpatrick, Ian Dann, Jason Hobson and Steve Roy then went to search the Dinh family home on Davenport Rd. in Toronto.

They were supposed to secure the site and wait for a warrant. But they searched the house anyway, discovering a stockpile of drugs including two more kilos of cocaine, the judge found. The judge said the officers tried to cover up the illegal search and “all gave false evidence designed to mislead the court.”

In court, with Kirkpatrick on the stand, Tan-Hung Dinh’s lawyer played the audio recorded by the defendant’s brother outside the Dinh family home.

On the recording, the brother asked for Kirkpatrick’s name.

“It’s Kirkpatrick. I’m not going to f------ repeat myself again. Now I’m getting upset. Okay?”

The officer continued, “Your brother…was caught today with three kilos of cocaine and a pill press with ecstasy. It’s not a f------ laughing matter. That’s very serious stuff. Okay? He’s gone away for a long time now.”

Here’s the problem: The recording was done five hours before police got a warrant to search the home. Kirkpatrick could not have known the total amount of cocaine — three kilos — if he had not already illegally searched the home.

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Ottawa is famous for "political prosecutions" and, also famous for

Ottawa prosecutors, Ottawa Police and the worst of the worst, the Ottawa Children's Aid Society  orchestrating "cover ups".

 

As in the case above, it is one corrupt official after another protecting the prior official who did something criminal.

In Ottawa, Van T. Nguyen No. 952 fabricated evidence, and to protect him, Samuel Wayne Smith No. 880 did the same. Then knowing that the other two officers fabricated evidence, Peter Van Der Zander No. 1639, did the same.