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A10 TORONTO NATIONAL POST, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 2005

SKETCHES RELEASED Toronto police are searching for a gang of home invaders dubbed the “Pee-Wee Herman Crew” be-
cause investigators think the suspected ringleader, right, looks like the children’s entertainer. At least five men

‘Pee-Wee Herman Crew’ are alleged to have forced their way into a Scarborough home on Dec. 14, where they bound and gagged a 32-year-
old man and his 59-year-old mother and held them at gunpoint. Police say the victims were tortured in an effort to
suspected of terrorizing find money the suspects believed to be in the home — the man was beaten and burned with a hot knife. Police said the
suspects kidnapped the woman and told the son she would be killed unless he paid a $100,000 ransom in three days.
mother, son in robbery She was released after the suspects received cash, jewellery and other items worth up to $80,000. National Post

National Post reporter Melissa Leong went to

Toronto’s police academy for a sometimes painful
day of training. Clockwise from left, Leong tries to
free herself from a “suspect”; hit the target with the
help of Constable Gail Shields; pull “an unconscious
person” to safety; and push a suspect into line.

Photos by Steve McKinley for the National Post

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