MANDEL: Alleged dirty Toronto cop at centre of corruption probe loses bail review
· Toronto Sun
Accused dirty Toronto cop Timothy Barnhardt has lost his second bid at getting bail.
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In a bail review decision, which took him more than an hour to deliver, Superior Court Justice Peter Bawden found the suspended 12 Division constable accused of leaking information to criminals still hadn’t met his onus to be released on this second attempt.
The reasons are covered by a standard publication ban.
Barnhardt, 57, appeared resigned as he looked back at a supporter in the downtown courtroom. Dressed in black, with his greying long hair pulled back in a skinny ponytail, the 20-year police veteran was led away in handcuffs once again to await his trial.
Arrested as part of Project South
Following his shocking arrest in February as part of Project South, an organized crime and corruption investigation led by York Regional Police, Barnhardt was the only one of eight current and former Toronto Police officers denied bail by a justice of the peace.
Barnhardt was called the “genesis” of the Project South investigation after he allegedly accessed personal information on a police computer about a Toronto South Detention Centre manager and passed it on to Brian Da Costa, who police alleged is a “key figure in a criminal network within the Greater Toronto Area with significant international ties.”
The corrections supervisor was later a target of a foiled murder attempt last June.
Barnhardt faces the longest list of charges — 17 disturbing offences that include drug trafficking cocaine, oxycodone, Xanax, Adderall and MDMA, conspiracy to obstruct justice, breach of trust, conspiring to commit a bribe and more, in addition to unlawfully accessing the police computer system.