TWENTY YEARS TO DEPORT CRIMINAL?

This exemplifies some of the problems created by the immigration review merry-go-round.


Canada deports gunman after 20 years - Crime - Canoe.ca


May 1, 2010

Canada deports gunman after 20 years

By NADIA MOHARIB, QMI Agency

CALGARY - After betraying a country offering numerous chances, failing a family who hoped he'd change and proving himself a public danger, a longtime criminal has been deported.
Frank Fayke Dwomoh, the hired gun in what the courts called a cold-blooded gang shooting, was deported to Ghana this week -- one of 15 people sent packing for their violent ways in Calgary this year.
The 30-year-old, who has two young children here, came to Canada as a child in 1992.
By 2001, he was convicted of robbery, starting what would be a life of crime which earned more than a dozen criminal convictions.
The robbery conviction led to a deportation order which Dwomoh appealed.
But by 2004, just as he was granted a stay of deportation, he was charged with shooting a man in the leg during an attack on a drug dealer.
Court heard Michael Stoffels, who was suspected in the home invasion robberies of two gang members, was lured by a drug acquaintance and another man into going for a ride in a car.
Unknown to the victim, an armed Dwomoh was hidden in the trunk.
Once the car pulled over in a Calgary alley, the trunk was popped with Dwomoh approaching Stoffels.
When Stoffels refused to get out of the car, he was shot in the leg, shattering his femur before being beaten and then taken to hospital. Immigration transcripts show Dwomoh "minimized harm," saying he "could have killed" Stoffels but the man "didn't die, he just got shot in the leg."
The 2004 shooting earned him a seven-year prison term and the deportation order re-instated.
"Mr. Dwomoh has been given chance after chance," Immigration and Refugee Board adjudicator Lee Ann King said at a hearing last fall.
"He was given the ultimate chance to turn his life around at his immigration appeal and he did not do that."
The behaviour of Dwomoh, said to be a boss in the Crazy Dragons gang, didn't improve behind bars where he was involved in an attack on an inmate and a jail riot.
Correctional Service Canada documents show the majority of his problems on the streets stem from "everyday interactions" with people "in the drug trade, people owing him money, getting robbed, ripped off, competition trying to take over business clients."
Last year Canada Border Services deported 56 people from Calgary for criminality.