Arson, Shootings Target GFL Execs, Two Arrested

0:00It's April 13th. Welcome in. This is Calgary News Today, where local news meets AI. A wave of attacks on green-for-life properties and exec homes in the greater Toronto area has cops on high alert, with two key arrests shaking things. Up! Last week, a fire hit a GFL waistpot near Cherry Beach, Ida's arson, and made a string of similar hits. Then there's 18-year-old Toronto guy, Akari Bowen, NAB March 25th for allegedly blasting shots at the Woodbridge pad of Paul. Barelli, an exec at GFL's sister firm, green infrastructure partners around 1 a.m., no one hurt but evidence piled up fast. Meanwhile, Elon philosophy, 42 and boss of construction outfits, astro-excavating and astro-shoring, got pinched April 9th over September. 29th and 30th shootings at GFL CEO Patrick Daviji's and exec VP Ted Manziar's homes. These linked to other beefs too, like harassing a GIP-shoring exec and court-slapped him

1:01with no contact orders Friday. These hits go back to summer 2024, starting with arson at a Vaughan industrial yard tied to GFL. This year alone, probes into at least six cases, fires torching a truck in February, more exec home shootings like Sean Goldberg's and March 0.2, targeted chaos around the waste giant. Prosecutors say warrants are still out there. More charges could drop and both Bowen and philosophy sit tight in custody awaiting bail. GFL folks have in comments in much, but the pattern screams organized grudge. As investigators connect more dots, this saga is far from wrapped, leaving the waste world watching its back closed.