Tianna Almeida, and Tera Amoatemah, both 22, were each charged with being an accessory after the fact in an assault with a weapon. London police announced on Friday that Almedia and Amoatemah were both arrested in Toronto as part of the investigation into the June 21 murder of Bill Horrace of Toronto. Horrace was shot to death shortly before 5 a.m. on Sunday June 21, after four men burst into the London home where he was staying. Det. Const. Trevor P. Gregory, 46, of North York, who worked out of midtown 53 division in Toronto, was charged on Tuesday with breach of trust by a public officer in the murder probe. Gregory’s son, Keiron Gregory, 21, of North York, remains a fugitive wanted on a second-degree murder charge in Horrace’s death. Gregory, a 21-year Toronto police veteran of the Toronto Police Service, was suspended with pay as required by the Police Services Act, police spokesperson Connie Osborne said. Keiron Gregory is accused with three other men of bursting into a home at 232 Pochard Lane in London’s east end. The other men have not yet been identified. Three of the suspects wore medical masks, police said. Trevor Gregory also ran into trouble with Toronto police police superiors in 2016, when he pleaded guilty to internal police discipline charges of neglect of duty and insubordination after a woman he arrested overdosed on pills. A Toronto police disciplinary hearing decision says Gregory did not tell other officers the woman had ingested the pills. She was later found unresponsive in her cell before paramedics took her to hospital where she received treatment and lived. London police Det. Supt. Chris Newton said in an interview that Horrace had several interactions with Kieren Gregory in the weeks before his murder. Some of those interactions were face-to-face, Newton said, while others were by texting. Liberian journalist Rodney Sieh said that Horrace was suspected of being involved in a “Black Money” scam, in which a con man claims to have come into possession of a large amount money that is stained with black ink. In the scam, which has been around for several years, the criminal cons investors into help purchase a cleanser that will supposedly make the money usable. Horrace was accused of war crimes, but never stood trial for them, before he moved to Toronto in the summer of 2002. In November 2013, Horrace was charged in Toronto with theft under $5,000, fraud and making counterfeit money. He was found guilty in August 2016 of theft under $5,000 and sentenced to 12 months probation, while the fraud and counterfeiting charges were dropped. Horrace served under former Liberian president Charles Taylor during Liberia’s bloody civil war more than two decades ago. Taylor is serving a 50-year sentence in a British prison after he was found guilty in 2012 of 11 counts of “aiding and abetting” war crimes and crimes against humanity. According to Sieh, who had tracked his actions since he fled Liberia, Horace had repeatedly denied war crimes allegations to Canadian immigration officials and maintained he was a church-going, God-fearing man who ran a hair salon and an import-export business in Toronto while helping the city’s homeless. Almeida and Amoatemah were both arrested in Toronto by London Police Service officers on Tuesday and released pending a court appearance in London on September 28. Trevor Gregory was released after his arrest Wednesday and has a court date of Sept. 29 in London. Story By: Toronto.com
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