A Toronto rapper has been charged with a number of offences in reference to a firearms investigation, police stated Saturday.
Hassan Ali, recognized by his rap moniker High 5, was arrested Friday after police executed a search close to Enterprise Boulevard and Birchmount Highway in Markham, police stated Saturday.
Ali is going through 5 charges together with unauthorized possession of a firearm, careless storage of a firearm, and possession of a prohibited or restricted firearm with ammunition.
A 29-year-old man was additionally arrested and charged with six firearm-related offences, police stated in a information launch.
Earlier homicide cost stayed final fall
Ali was launched from custody final fall after spending about three years behind bars whereas awaiting trial for first-degree homicide cost within the January 2021 capturing demise of Hashim Omar Hashi, an accounting pupil.
The trial was about to start when the Crown introduced it was staying the cost in September 2024 within the Ontario Superior Court docket of Justice.
Ali has denied his involvement within the killing.
Ali was scheduled to seem in courtroom on the Toronto Regional Bail Centre Saturday morning on the current firearms charges.
