So thinking about MS, when he was arrested, neighbours said that he'd been in the neighbourhood for about 10 years which takes us back to the time that he was 15. The Oakville house is owned by his mother. This is post divorce?
Before that he lived in Mississauga.
Abro informs us he was selling cigarettes in high school, and at age 18-19 he is arrested for trafficking in cocaine and in magic mushrooms, two separate events, some time apart. He is found guilty of possession.
I have to say, cocaine is quite a sophisticated product to be selling when you are 18-19. It's a large ticket item, and to have stock of the drug, you have to pony up quite a bit of cash, and all that cash and drugs lying around might mean you have an interest in weapons and thuggery, as you are your own security force when you retail drugs. Plus, it is a product you can't largely unload at high school as you would with native ciggies or pot. You have a different client base.
MS's father is a white collar professional as are MS's two older sisters. In contrast, at the end of his high school career, MS has a criminal record, lawyers fees, and somebody (mom) probably had to sign something saying they would keep an eye on him, in order to keep him out of jail. He picks up two more charges, for missing a court date, and breaking a curfew. Who called him on the missed curfew, mom? He's the youngest, the only boy, and mom promises the cops that she will mother him a bit longer.
At 21-22 he gets a DUI.
No one has stepped up as having employed or worked with MS. He has a lot of friends, and is very social, very involved with his family but he does not seem to have a day job...or have had one, ever? And everyone understood his home address to be his mother's place in Oakville, at age 25?
http://www.insidehalton.com/news-st...akville-s-smich-shocked-by-murder-accusation/
We've heard of the various courses DM took after high school but MS does not seem to have done anything other than hang around his mother's house and smoke pot on the porch for the 7 years after high school.
More than one source says that he is very devoted to his mother - no doubt, because she's his source of shelter. Regardless at some point he moves in with DM (but brings a girlfriend to pick up after him). And then at some point, he is back with mom.
You can see the synergy between DM and MS as MS has connections and access to drugs, and DM has connections and access to customers: rich kids who like to party. By the time he is arrested, MS has more than 7 years experience selling clandestine product.
When he is 24 he is arrested for tagging graffiti, and you have to wonder, at that age, come on, really? Kid stuff. Well, that's if the graffiti had no purpose...honestly, I can see him out there promoting his own brand, promoting himself as THE choice for club and party drugs. Both of his sisters are in marketing and communications and he is doing advertising his own way.
It is interesting, though, that he seems to have had a career as a drugs retailer, with no cover, while remaining enmeshed in his family. He's the kind of guy who stays home to look after his sick mother and dogs. There is something a little wonky there in the family dynamic, as if mom was so desperate to hang on to her last, youngest and only son, despite the fact that he's a convicted criminal. It seems in fact that he has the run of the house, with so many people by, and the pot smoking sessions on the front porch, making neighbours think the house is inhabited by renters.
It's interesting that none of DM, MS or CN had left their parents home by the time of their arrests. Just as MS had taken over his mother's home and overrun it with his pothead friends, DM had invited his friends to infest WM's place.
To MS, who is a professional sponge, DM is a wealth of resources: a place to stay, customers, a hangar, vehicles, money. DM is well worth getting to know.
DM's parents did a lot to try to instill diligence and routine, preparation for a career, in him. Private school. Forced him to complete by correspondence. Encouraged him to pursue courses in anything: cooking, makeup artistry, computer animation. Created the MRO. DM also had an aquarium hobby, which requires daily maintenance, and pets, which need the same, and he looked after the rental properties. He had a patchwork of responsibilities.
MS on the other hand, lives life on his own schedule by his own wits (which seem to be, substantial social/networking skills). He is a black market entrepreneur. He likely leads, influences, dominates his mother, as well as others.
DM has two groups of friends. One group is his authentic friends, the ones that came out of the way that he was raised: the blue collar trades guys, the ones that might have been buddies with CM if he were still alive today and that age.
Then DM has been to private school, and that exposes you to people with money who lead a variety of lifestyles. Look at lawyer DP, he lives life large with a palace like house and a bunch of expensive cars. That is not the lifestyle in which DM was raised, but he was exposed to people like this...so the poor bugger is eating dog biscuits at private school to proclaim he likes his humble lifestyle to the rich brats in the latest designer clothes that dine out and shop and travel and otherwise live the lifestyle.
Now MS is part of the lifestyle because he sells party favours to party people. To DM, MS is a ticket into the world of people who live fabulously. At private school, DM was the hillbilly. Then afterwards, community college, he's around pretty regular people. Then through MS, he is able to reinsert himself among the kids that live the lifestyle, and reinvent himself as the outlaw (not hillbilly) cool (not gauche).
LB may have been DM's problem but he may not have killed her. MS could have done the job and then he would have vicegrip control over DM and his resources. It would have allowed MS to move him and his girlfriend into DM and WM's home.
So then DM has this guy in his home...7 years ago this guy had coke connections and MS's drug alliances and personal power could only have gotten greater over that time. DM could have been scared of the guy, and if MS killed WM, truly controlled by him.
"I can't get into the framing aspect right now."..do note that only DM is charged in the death of WM.
I can't help noting again, both MS and his sisters are exceptionally socially successful people, with the sisters in advertising and MS in sales.
MS has nothing though (and DM has lots).
Hints that DM was acting on his own bad judgement though: he dragged his girlfriend into this. He stole, instead of bought, a truck he wanted (it wasn't for MS).
Anyway, in answer to the question, who is a bad influence on who, there you go. Perhaps DM came to aspire to become a
(like MS) because drugs were the only thing to date that had brought him in close proximity to the rich kids that live fabulous lives? Perhaps he was equally tantalized to become an insider in part of a criminal network?
MOO
uke: Him nor his man purse... :giggle: JMHO.
