Cut & Pasted this from the Mississauga "newspaper"....
I hate seeing articles like this. Thought others might be interested though.
Articles like this gives morality further ammo that the Massage industry is bad.
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THE MISSISSAUGA NEWS
Business partner pleads guilty to hiring killer
Officer was paid for hit
LOUIE ROSELLA
Feb 5, 2003
The co-owner of a Mississauga massage parlour has been sentenced to five years in prison for hiring an undercover Peel cop -- posing as a contract killer -- to murder a friend and business associate.
Sebastian Sapeta, 28, pleaded guilty in Brampton superior court last week to the counselling to commit murder charge, laid by Peel Police in Jan. 2001 following a six-month investigation dubbed Project Lexus, which focused on ecstasy importing and trafficking throughout Peel and the GTA.
Justice Bruce Thomas sentenced the accused to five years and three months in prison, as well as a two-year concurrent sentence for trafficking ecstasy and heroin.
But the two years of "dead time" served in custody awaiting the plea has been factored in, meaning Sapeta will likely be up for parole in seven months, police said.
Sapeta and Marek Konczak, 37, who appears in court facing similar charges in April, were business partners of the former Romantica Spa on Matheson Blvd., with the intended victim.
Sapeta initiated conversations with the undercover officer in the summer of 2000 to first have the intended victim kidnapped, beaten and have him sign over his share of the illegal massage parlour.
But these talks escalated over a three-month period to the point where Sapeta wanted the intended victim murdered.
Court heard Sapeta pointed out the victim's schedule and paid the undercover officer a down payment of $5,000 towards the $20,000 contract killing.
Investigators believed the hit attempt was prompted by a falling out between the business partners.
The spa has since closed down following charges that it operated as a bawdy house.
During the lengthy investigation, which culminated in a series of raids across the GTA, Peel Morality Bureau officers netted more than $16,000 in ecstasy pills, two handguns, and amounts of heroin, cocaine and marijuana.
In total, 15 people were charged.
The co-owner of a Mississauga massage parlour has been sentenced to five years in prison for hiring an undercover Peel cop -- posing as a contract killer -- to murder a friend and business associate.
I hate seeing articles like this. Thought others might be interested though.
Articles like this gives morality further ammo that the Massage industry is bad.
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THE MISSISSAUGA NEWS
Business partner pleads guilty to hiring killer
Officer was paid for hit
LOUIE ROSELLA
Feb 5, 2003
The co-owner of a Mississauga massage parlour has been sentenced to five years in prison for hiring an undercover Peel cop -- posing as a contract killer -- to murder a friend and business associate.
Sebastian Sapeta, 28, pleaded guilty in Brampton superior court last week to the counselling to commit murder charge, laid by Peel Police in Jan. 2001 following a six-month investigation dubbed Project Lexus, which focused on ecstasy importing and trafficking throughout Peel and the GTA.
Justice Bruce Thomas sentenced the accused to five years and three months in prison, as well as a two-year concurrent sentence for trafficking ecstasy and heroin.
But the two years of "dead time" served in custody awaiting the plea has been factored in, meaning Sapeta will likely be up for parole in seven months, police said.
Sapeta and Marek Konczak, 37, who appears in court facing similar charges in April, were business partners of the former Romantica Spa on Matheson Blvd., with the intended victim.
Sapeta initiated conversations with the undercover officer in the summer of 2000 to first have the intended victim kidnapped, beaten and have him sign over his share of the illegal massage parlour.
But these talks escalated over a three-month period to the point where Sapeta wanted the intended victim murdered.
Court heard Sapeta pointed out the victim's schedule and paid the undercover officer a down payment of $5,000 towards the $20,000 contract killing.
Investigators believed the hit attempt was prompted by a falling out between the business partners.
The spa has since closed down following charges that it operated as a bawdy house.
During the lengthy investigation, which culminated in a series of raids across the GTA, Peel Morality Bureau officers netted more than $16,000 in ecstasy pills, two handguns, and amounts of heroin, cocaine and marijuana.
In total, 15 people were charged.
The co-owner of a Mississauga massage parlour has been sentenced to five years in prison for hiring an undercover Peel cop -- posing as a contract killer -- to murder a friend and business associate.
