A terrifying thing happened during dinner...

Recording artist Jaimie Vernon shares his account of this news breaking story:

When one goes to a local family restaurant for dinner with one's family it's generally expected that a meal will be eaten, a tab will get paid and everyone will leave as they had come in.

At 5PM tonight I took my wife and son to a local 24-hour diner to grab a fast meal before I was to head out to a recording studio to sing on a friend's record. Shortly after ordering our food the parking lot of the plaza housing this restaurant became a command post for our local police force. Not particularly unusual as we were a block from the police station and across the street from the boundary of Scarborough that delineates 'Malvern' from the rest of the City. In the past Malvern (where I grew up and my parents still live) has been a hotbed of gang activity. But in the last 18 months the warfare has been squashed through some exceptional work by our Toronto Police services.

What was different about this police parade wasn't just the 17 vehicles that had pulled into the parking lot, but the police presence itself. A LOT of unmarked vans with drivers wearing body armour (bullet proof vests and face visors) like you see in riot situations. And when the armoured motorcade followed with any number of ambulances and regular squad cars things started getting uneasy in the restaurant.

We didn't wait around for the rumoured drug bust or gang-related take down. I took the family home and headed off to the recording session in another part of Toronto (also a hotbed of gun toting gang members).

At 11 O'clock I left the studio and headed back toward Scarborough and on the news I heard that the Malvern police unit and 11 others throughout Toronto and environs had been the scene of arrests orchestrated by the American FBI and Canadian RCMP joint terro*ism squads. They had succeeded in rounding up at least EIGHT terror suspects throughout the Greater Toronto Area (with more busts to be announced tomorrow morning by the RCMP). These people were driven to the municipality of Pickering in Durham Region (just east of Scarborough) to be processed. The police station at Hwy 2 and Brock Road was barricaded and protected with heavy arsenol in case of
retaliation. And guess where my friend was headed whose session I sang on? A block from that police station.

You should be hearing all about this on the news tomorrow....and it's sure to go International as there is a connection to some suspects arrested in Georgia a week or two ago.

These are scary times we still live in.

Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
"Not Infecting Our Customers' Computers Since 1985!!"

www.bullseyecanada.com

Bullseye Records

Jaimie Vernon's song "Turn!" has been getting some heavy airplay on THE TIME MACHINE playlist. The song can be found on the spledid three CD set "International Pop Overthrow - Volume 8" that can be purchased at most of the usual locations online including; Jam Records, Kool Kat Musik and Not Lame.


Jaimie Vernon is also an author - Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia


Jaimie Vernon on MySpace Music