Re: Sources link trio of missing Toronto tow-truck drivers to mass murder


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Sources link trio of missing Toronto tow-truck drivers to mass murder
By TOM GODFREY AND JONATHAN JENKINS, SUN MEDIA

TORONTO -- Three Toronto tow truck drivers linked to the Bandidos bike
gang are missing and feared among the eight dead in a possible biker
war, sources have told Sun Media.

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The men have been reported missing since last Friday and the aunt of
one of them - reputed high-ranking Bandidos member Frank "Bam Bam"
Salerno - even called police to find out if her nephew was among those
killed, according to sources.

No one answered Salerno's phones last night.

Another two drivers - one from Superior Towing and another from Bill
and Son Towing - have not been since Friday.

"I saw two of them in a Superior truck racing down Queensway last
Friday night," said another driver, who refused to give his name due
to possible repercussions. "That was the last time I saw them alive."

OLDER MAN

A Superior truck was found at the murder site. Cindy Stunden, owner of
another Toronto towing company, First Image Towing, said the driver
was believed to be George Jesso, an older man in his late 50s or early
60s.

"I'm sort of thinking he was in the wrong place at the wrong time,"
said Stunden, adding he was just a "harmless old man.''.

Danny Creatura, manager of Superior Towing, confirmed that Jesso was a
driver for his company and that he was missing.

Another driver who socialized with two of the men said: "Everybody
knew they were involved with the Bandidos."

He said both suburban Toronto drivers were married with children and
had been driving tow trucks for years.

A Bill and Son worker - who didn't want his name used - confirmed one
missing man worked for the firm, which is an accredited Toronto police
tow service.

"Are you kidding? I saw him on Friday. I'm just shocked. I don't know
what to say," the man said.

DOMINATE COKE TRADE

A source familiar with the cocaine trade in Toronto's west end said
tow truck drivers dominate the retail end of the coke trade on behalf
of the biker gangs.

"They run a lot off the blow," the source said. "The way it works is
if you want cocaine at 4 a.m., you call a tow truck driver."

The source said the Bandidos gang is a particularly volatile and
dangerous crew which has been increasingly aggressive of late,
intruding on other clubs' traditional turf.

"They're real bad news, they're like the hatchet men," the source
said.

"They've been walking into a lot of bars where they're not supposed to
be lately and when people see them coming, they get up and leave.

"They know there's going to be trouble."


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