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Fathers Battling Injustice
Ex-cops face gun charges-Weapons seized following domestic dispute
Posted By: Susan
Date: Tuesday, 11 January 2000, at 9:04 a.m.
Tuesday, January 11, 2000
Ex-cops face gun charges
Weapons seized following domestic dispute
By JONATHAN KINGSTONE AND PETE FISHER, TORONTO SUN
Two former Toronto cops - one of whom once fired four bullets into her parents' farmhouse -- are charged after provincial police seized a cache of weapons from their Colborne-area home.
Ron Grumeth and his wife, Hillary, who have a total of 50 years police experience between them, were arrested Sunday at their residence in Cramahe Township following a domestic dispute.
Colborne is about 25 km east of Cobourg.
Local provincial police said they were called after Ron Grumeth, 53, claimed he'd been threatened with death.
He told officers he saw the woman who threatened him leave the home with a handgun, Const. Susan Storry said yesterday.
Police stopped a woman in the area and arrested her without incident.
Storry said officers then returned to the residence, where they uncovered nine handguns and five rifles.
The OPP's provincial weapons enforcement unit is tracing the origins of the guns.
"We wouldn't be here if this was an ordinary gun seizure," Det.-Const. Russ Cassidy.
"These types of weapons pose a danger to police officers and civilians in the hands of the wrong people," Cassidy said.
The Grumeths are jointly charged with nine counts of possession of a restricted weapon and one count each of possession of a prohibited weapon.
Hillary Grumeth, 43, is also charged with uttering threats.
A source said Ron Grumeth was a long-time detective in the forensic identification unit before moving to 55 Division, where he retired recently after 30 years on the force.
His wife, who used her maiden name, Hogg, retired about three years ago as a constable from Scarborough's 42 Division after more than 20 years service, the source said.
"We always expected them to kill each other," said one source who knows them.
In August 1985, Hillary Hogg made headlines over an armed siege at her parents' residence at Coppins Corners, near Pickering.
Hogg fired wild gunshots into the house, then barricaded herself inside and held police at bay for 12 hours.
After surrendering, she was charged -- and later convicted -- of careless use of a firearm.
Hogg was allowed to keep her job, but was demoted from a first- to a third-class constable.
She said at the time the demotion was unfair.
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