‘Give me the keys to your car’: Victims testify at trial for alleged serial home intruder - BERITAJA

The proceedings has begun for an alleged serial location intruder, charged pinch 13 home invasions and 1 driveway theft successful Toronto complete a seven-week play successful 2023, arsenic good arsenic 2 carjackings successful August 2023 successful Markham.

The accused, 22-year-old Naz Tokhi, has pleaded not blameworthy to 38 counts including 13 counts of break and enter, 16 counts of theft of a centrifugal vehicle, 3 counts of equipped robbery and 1 count of disguise pinch intent.

Crown counsels Anjali Rajan and Alice Bradstreet told the assemblage successful their opening reside that the Crown’s lawsuit against Tokhi includes fingerprints linking him to crime scenes, cellphone data, videos of the accused wrong the victims’ stolen cars and clothing recovered astatine his house.

Nine victims of location invasions person already testified really they were awakened successful the mediate of the nighttime by a large sound, to find windows broken, projectiles lying connected the level and their luxury vehicles gone.

Many of them past testified they checked their surveillance cameras to spot masked suspects stealing their cars. In immoderate cases, the victims described confronting the suspects successful their homes earlier being ordered to manus complete their keys.

The assemblage was besides shown a video of a masked man sitting wrong a reddish Mercedes arsenic rap euphony is playing.

The man is gesturing pinch his hands earlier he gets retired of the car and moves about to the backmost wherever the licence sheet could beryllium seen.

According to an agreed connection of facts, Tokhi was arrested connected Nov. 7, 2023.

In the Crown’s opening, the assemblage heard Tokhi had his cellphone connected him astatine the clip of his arrest.

The Crown said the video was recovered wrong Tokhi’s telephone aft they obtained a hunt warrant.

Rajan told the assemblage that the video was dated Sept. 11, 2023, the aforesaid time location was a location penetration astatine Christine O’Donohue’s Bayview and Eglinton Avenue location and her car was stolen.

The Crown alleges the individual wearing a balaclava successful the reddish Mercedes successful the video is Tokhi wrong O’Donohue’s stolen Mercedes.

O’Donohue testified she believed the reddish Mercedes seen successful the video was her stolen Mercedes.

During cross-examination, O’Donohue said she could not opportunity for judge if it was her conveyance but said the Mercedes successful the video had the aforesaid interior arsenic hers and said the first 3 letters connected the licence sheet were the aforesaid arsenic her licence plate.

The Crown alleges that 2 days later, the reddish Mercedes was utilized successful a consequent location penetration arsenic a getaway car.

In that location penetration adjacent Bayview and Eglinton Avenue connected Sept. 13, 2023, Frank Gomberg testified he woke up astatine 2 a.m. to perceive the sound of beeping from his location alarm, which was not activated.

Gomberg said location was solid lying successful by the beforehand doorway and realized the solid insert had been smashed.

He said he recovered a ample portion of flagstone connected the level which wasn’t from his property.

Gomberg said his Porsche Taycan, which was parked successful the driveway, was missing and realized 2 car keys which he kept successful a faraday box, to forestall group from picking up signals to clone a key, were gone.

Gomberg said his wallet was besides missing and aft going online to spot whether immoderate transactions had been made connected his in installments cards, learned that some his Mastercard and American Express had been used.

Const. Jonathan Chan testified he contacted the in installments paper companies and was provided pinch a number of addresses wherever the in installments cards were used.

Video surveillance shown successful tribunal captured a reddish SUV pulling into an Esso state position connected Don Mills Road little than an hr aft the location invasion.

Two men get retired of the Mercedes and 1 goes into the position to usage the in installments card, earlier returning to the state pump and filling up the vehicle.

Chan besides said video surveillance was collected from a Petro Canada state position astatine Finch and Victoria Park Avenue. In that video, a man is captured filling up a Blue Honda Civic utilizing Gomberg’s in installments paper 2 hours aft it was stolen.

The man’s look is not covered. Chan testified he ran the sheet and learned it was registered to a man named Naz Tokhi.

MTO records showing that Tokhi was the registered proprietor of a Blue Honda Civic were shown successful court.

Bradley Rosenberg, different victim, testified that he was staying astatine his parents’ location adjacent Bayview and Sheppard Avenue connected Aug. 14, 2023 erstwhile he woke up about 2 a.m. to perceive a crashing sound.

Rosenberg said he sewage retired of furniture and saw 2 group successful the beforehand foyer of the location and noticed the beforehand doorway model was smashed.

He testified he noticed 2 slim males successful their early 20s wearing masks and hoodies rummaging about a array successful the beforehand introduction way.

“I deliberation they said, ‘Give maine the keys to your car’,” Rosenberg testified. “I said, ‘I don’t cognize wherever they are and you’re not getting them.'”

Rosenberg said it’s past 1 of the men said to the different to “go complete and f— maine up”.

Video surveillance shown successful tribunal captured 2 men breaking the solid and entering the location arsenic Rosenberg, wearing only briefs, could beryllium seen approaching the beforehand doorway and confronting the suspects.

Rosenberg said his 2023 BMW X7 was parked successful the driveway of the home. He could not place the suspects.

Rosenberg described the 2 suspects arsenic slim, successful their early 20s. He said some were wearing masks and hoodies.

Rosenberg testified he told the 2 intruders to “get the hellhole retired of my house, the constabulary are coming.”

He said they made disconnected pinch his mother’s purse but didn’t get the SUV.

Stephen Schlender testified connected Oct. 2, 2023, about 2:30 a.m., he was accelerated dormant successful the chamber of his Scarborough location pinch his wife. His 2 toddlers were besides dormant astatine the time.

“I heard solid smash successful the mediate of the night, and being a constabulary officer, I knew precisely what was happening,” said Schlender.

Schlender told tribunal that he screamed constabulary and ran to the doorway to face the intruders.

“They were already retired of my house. It was my beforehand doorway that was smashed,” Schlender told court, saying that aft reviewing location video, he realized a stone was utilized to break the window.

The video surveillance from Schlender’s doorbell camera was past played successful court.

Three masked individuals, 1 holding a flashlight, are captured banging astatine a doorway arsenic 1 breaks the glass.

A female from wrong the location could beryllium heard screaming hysterically earlier a antheral sound is heard yelling “Police, I’ll f—ing termination you. I’ll f—ing termination you. Get the f— retired of my house.”

Schlender said the suspects near without taking the 2 vehicles parked successful the driveway, a Mercedes and an Audi. However, his wife’s purse was taken from the eating room table.

“To beryllium clear, connected the Ring camera video, it wasn’t the intruders yelling, ‘I’ll f—ing termination you?'” asked defence lawyer Sid Freeman. “It was me,” replied Schlender.

The proceedings continues.