The Department of Defence says it has removed two members of the 7th Toronto Regiment from military duty and restricted their access to bases after Toronto police arrested them on various charges.
In an email to The Epoch Times, a Department of National Defence (DND) spokesperson confirmed that Sachintha Fernando and James Moreau were arrested by the Toronto Police Service on Aug. 11 on charges of organized crime, kidnapping, and theft of firearms and weapons.
The department said that Fernando enrolled in the Canadian Army as a reservist in January 2020, although he never deployed on a Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) operation. Meanwhile, Moreau enrolled in the army as a reservist in March 2018 and deployed on a COVID-19 pandemic operation in Ontario in 2020….