Unless it’s the scumbag son of a hero cop. Hey, the father must have done something right, as he helped dismantle a gang of heroin traffickers, which resulted in their putting a freaking hit out on his life. Unfortunately, his son thinks it’s okay to have loaded, illegal handguns for god knows what purposes.
So what does this scumbag 20 year old, Andrew Canepa, receive for such a crime? A 12-month stay-at-home sentence. Wow, that’ll really teach the punk. If he thought he was untouchable before because daddy was a cop, it’s only going to get much worse. The COMMENTS section contains the Sun article.
Cop’s son convicted: Caught with gun, dope, sentenced to year at home (By SAM PAZZANO, Courts Bureau)
The son of a prominent Toronto Police narcotics officer was handed a 12-month stay-at-home sentence Friday for possessing a restricted handgun, which police discovered while investigating marijuana odours wafting from his apartment.
Andrew Canepa, the 20-year-old son of Det.-Const. Tony Canepa, let two officers into his Etobicoke home to check out the pungent marijuana smells drifting through the building on Dec. 14, 2008.
Once inside Andrew Canepa’s West Mall home, the officers found marijuana, drug paraphernalia, a loaded .45-calibre Smith and Wesson revolver, speed loader and ammunition.
Canepa pleaded guilty Tuesday to possession of the unauthorized firearm and Justice Ian Nordheimer passed sentence Friday.
“This city has experienced a series of occurrences recently in the deaths of entirely innocent people that has heightened public’s concern for firearms,” said Nordheimer.
“It poses a risk to the public and especially is a concern given the accused’s father’s occupation as a police officer,” said Nordheimer.
In 1991, Tony Canepa was a candidate for police officer of the year after he became a marked man after dismantling a gang of heroin traffickers in the Parkdale area.
Canepa and other officers helped collar 11 accused, including the kingpin of the gang, who was convicted of the attempted murder of a police officer.
Gang members put a contract on Canepa’s life after he smashed their ring.
The judge rejected Crown attorney David Moull’s bid for a term of nine to 12 months imprisonment for Andrew Canepa.
Nordheimer agreed with defence counsel George Tsimiklis that Canepa, a first offender, could be deterred and his conduct denounced without sending him to prison. There’s no evidence Canepa ever took the firearm outside his home or used it, said Nordheimer.
“The accused is a young man who made a mistake, admittedly a serious mistake,” said Nordheimer.
Tsimiklis said his client received no special treatment due to his father.
“Canepa was, in no way, given any favours because his father is a police officer. The prosecution case was severely undermined by the warrantless, unjustified search,” said Tsimiklis.
“There were no exigent circumstances here such as a hostage taking to justify a warrantless search. This was an investigation of the smell of marijuana,” said Tsmiklis.
“Our position is the police entered without any permission or authourity to do so,” he said.
Tsimiklis said his client could have faced a minimum three years imprisonment if he was convicted.
Okay, so there’s more to the story that I thought, as you can see from the following article by Sam Pazzano that was written before the perp’s “sentence” was handed down. BTW, not only was I correct that the “kid” was a punk, but he DID use his father’s name like a “get out of jail free” card. Read on:
Andrew Canepa’s life was smouldering out of control Dec. 14, 2008.
Police busted him with a small amount of pot and a restricted firearm in his Etobicoke apartment after neighbours complained of the reek.
The 18-year-old dropped his father’s name as if it were a get-out-of-jail free card, but he was arrested and charged. A firearm possession conviction could land him three years in a penitentiary.
“It was a blessing in disguise,” said his defence lawyer George Tsimiklis.
Andrew Canepa is now on the “long road to rehabilitation” as the now 20-year-old is doing well in his high school correspondence courses.
Andrew is now living and building a real relationship with his father and his stepmother in a structured home.
Once Andrew completes his diploma, his brother has offered to make him an apprentice at his electrical contracting firm.
Andrew’s life was tumultuous from his earliest memories.
Canepa’s parents, well-known drug cop Tony Canepa and his nurse mother Michelle Canepa broke up when Andrew was three years old.
Andrew became estranged from his father, and he and his brothers were raised by an alcoholic mom.
“He was estranged from his father for most of his life,” said Tsimiklis.
Andrew used drugs and floundered in school.
In November 2006, Andrew and his brothers moved out of their mother’s home “to force her to seek treatment for her alcoholism,” said Tsimikis. The plan backfired.
A month later, Michelle Canepa killed herself.
“Andrew felt very guilty about his mother’s suicide,” said Tsimiklis.
Andrew has undergone counselling and his psychologist said the teen “carried that guilt and stopped caring about living.”
He dropped out of high school in September 2007 and a month later, he moved away from his brothers and lived on his own.
A little more than a year later, Andrew’s life finally took a turn for the better after he was arrested.
Interesting picture!!
Canada is a police state dude. Why? Because it’s citizens are sheep.
Baaaaa……baaaaaaa.
You think Ontario is bad? Check out RCMP in BC. Make the Hell’s Angels look tame.
First offf do u no this kid no… do u no if he live with his dad for his life no u fukin dont.. dont listen to wat u read in the news u dont no anything if he drop his dads name or not.. and there wasnt no warrant so thats why the judge handed down a sentence like that kause if he went to kourt there was a 50/50 chance he would of walk.. and if this was all true about his dadd helpin him out when he first got arressted he would of not spent 5days in jail to get bailed out.. oh wait u didnt no that why kause u dont no shit u read the paper nstart blogging lol thats jks eh good for u…
His also not the only one in the world who got a sentence like that for a gun ur foolish,, u think u no u got no idea… and using that stuff bout his mom is not to show he had a bad life its so it to help him to get off anyone uses there pass u wouldnt if u got arressted u use anythin u kan to get off ur just a stupid loud mouth fuk.. y dont u blogg about those kids that get molested and the person who dose it gets off with a bullshit kouple yrs in jaill oh wait u dont why kuz ur a stupid fuk.. u dont no if that shit about his dad is true kause stupid fuk if there was a hit out on his dad why didnt they kill him what the hitters dont no wat there doin haah ur stupid thats there proffeession no? if there a hitman
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people are entitled to their own opinion although look in the mirror first and judge ur ownself before you put judge on anyone else.You haven’t walked there shoes people deal with things differently, i find most ppl who bash troubled kids are the ones who have had both parents and money.. not everyone has that walk in his shoes then talk. point blank. and as for the other guy dont take it so serious these people’s opinion should not bother you.. its kid shit.. they dont know so they shouldnt speak. ignorance is bliss.. they dun matter. bye
first of all all you pussys aint shit you would all snitch if you in that situation so shut the fuck up. Your in no place to speak about someone elses life. esp based on “what your heard in a newspaper” or what you heard about his childhood. karmas a bitch. and so is your mother.
As before, I’ve got two people writing from the same location: “it me snitches” and “missay.” So that leads me to infer that this ONE person (or two friends/family) are closely acquainted with Andrew Canepa. But they are free to express their opinion, however uneducated, ill-informed and inarticulate it may be.