Ex-Toronto Cop Allegedly Linked to Online Gambling Ring

Canadian police have revealed that investigators from a specialist bureau of the York Regional Police (YRP) have arrested and charged a former Toronto police officer and one other man for his or her alleged roles in an unlawful on-line playing ring. 

The YRP introduced on Wednesday that its Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau had arrested ex-Toronto Police Companies (TPS) officer John Madeley, 55, after a Tuesday raid on his house in Barrie. 

In keeping with the YRP, between January 2024 and October 2025 Madeley and Thomas Phippard, 47, allegedly labored with an organized crime ring to permit “entry to gaming web sites the place victims positioned bets on credit score.”

money “typically in exaggerated quantities” was demanded

The police press launch acknowledged that money “typically in exaggerated quantities” was demanded if victims misplaced their bets. Madeley and Phippard “used threats and violence to intimidate victims in an effort to acquire cost,” acknowledged the YRP. 

Phippard (aka Frank the Tank) was arrested a day earlier than Madeley, who retired in 2005 after 28 years of service with the TPS on the police constable degree. 

Phippard was charged with three counts of extortion and one rely “of utter threats.”

Madeley’s a number of fees embrace one rely apiece of breach of belief, possession of a firearm at an unauthorized place, and possession of property obtained by crime beneath $5,000. He’s additionally dealing with 4 counts of unauthorized use of a pc and two counts of possession of a banned machine.