City Peterborough Financial News

Police in Peterborough, Ont., are warning the public after reporting an increase in cryptocurrency scams that have cost victims thousands of dollars.

Peterborough police say they finally have a breakthrough.The homicide of the Otonabee River man – revealed on Wednesday to be Gerald Durocher – has mystified investigators ever since the grisly discovery was made by members of a recreational dive club more than three decades ago.It was on July 10, 1988, when the divers took to those waters in Peterborough and found a human head at the bottom of the river some 130 feet from shore.Shortly after the discovery, which was made near Lock and McKellar streets, police launched an extensive air and underwater search to locate the rest of the body. However, to this day, it was never found.On its website, police said that through investigation at the time, they determined the head belonged to a man roughly between 40 to 74 years of age.“Some lower molars were missing and had been lost well prior to death.

There were clues around the brick bungalow in north Toronto where Deb Scott grew up that hinted at her parents’ adventurous past. Photo albums full of black-and-white images of big lakes, dense northern forests, rocky hills and rushing waters; an old Coleman camping stove tucked away in a basement corner; a pair of heavy, eider-down sleeping bags; wooden crates full of rock samples; and a red, 16-foot Prospector canoe kept in the rafters of the two-car garage.

Hells Angels are not hiding the fact they are in the Peterborough, Ont., area.Sitting atop a hill on Lily Lake Road, just on the northwest outskirts of the city, is a house with a sign with the biker gang’s insignia and a bright red and white sign with “Hells Angels” attached to the front.Peter Edwards, the organized crime reporter with the Toronto Star and an author of several books on organized crime, says it’s a “significant” indication the Hells Angels mean business in the area after likely “testing the market.”“I’m not really surprised,” said Edwards. “Peterborough is significant, it’s almost surprising it didn’t get a chapter before this.”Formerly the house in Selwyn Township (part of Peterborough County) has featured insignia of the “Bad Boyz MC” and “Red Devils MC Peterborough,” changing to “Hells Angels” earlier this month.Edwards surmises they were motorcycle clubs which were “testing the waters,” for the “world’s largest outlaw motorcycle club or gang.”“Those other clubs would be testing the waters — they’d be junior support clubs,” said Edwards.